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AveXis to Present at Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Annual Conference
AveXis, a clinical stage synthetic biology platform company, today announced that Dr. Allan Kaspar, Chief Scientific Officer, will be presenting at The Family and Researcher Poster Session at The Annual Spinal Muscular Atrophy Conference, which will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2014 in National... - June 08, 2014 - AveXis Inc.
QA Consulting, Inc. Receives ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008 Certification
QA Consulting, Inc., a medical device consulting firm, has received ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008 certifications. QA Consulting’s achievement is the result of implementing a vigorous quality management system designed to govern their consulting and contract manufacturing services. These... - May 30, 2014 - QA Consulting, Inc.
Aaron Soto, VP at Sutro Biopharma to Speak at Protein Expression Mtg, Oct 23-24, 2014, Boston, MA.
Aaron K Soto, Vice President of Research at Sutro Biopharma, to Give a Presentation titled, “Design and Manufacture of Homogeneous Best-in-Class Antibody Drug Conjugates and Bispecifics by Cell-Free Protein Expression” at the Protein Expression, Purification & Characterization Conference, October 23 & 24, 2014, in Boston, MA, by GTCbio. - May 30, 2014 - GTCbio
Launching an Improved Range of Visulize™ Antigen ELISA Kits, Affinity Biologicals Inc. Simplifies Quantitative Assays of Hemostasis and Thrombosis-Related Proteins
Affinity Biologicals Inc. Makes a Valuable Addition to the Family of ELISA Kits with VisuLize™ Antigen Kits - May 29, 2014 - Affinity Biologicals
Life Science Strategy Group Launches the OutsourcePharma Advisory Board
Online community dedicated to pharmaceutical sponsors provides open forum to discuss drug development and outsourced Contract Research Organization (CRO) services. - May 28, 2014 - Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
MiTeGen Awarded $998K NIH Phase II SBIR Grant to Develop Hyperquenching Devices
Two year funding for the development of advanced cooling devices. - May 24, 2014 - MiTeGen, LLC
Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli Has Recently Been Recognized by America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals
Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli of Boston, Massachusetts has recently been included in America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals as Professional of the Year 2014 in Bio-Organic Chemistry. - May 20, 2014 - America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals
AveXis Announces Opening of Enrollment for Gene Transfer Clinical Trial for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 at Nationwide Children's Hospital
AveXis, Inc., a clinic-ready synthetic biology platform company, today announced that the Gene Transfer Clinical Trial for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 has now formally begun enrollment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. This trial will utilize chariSMA, the gene therapy product developed... - May 16, 2014 - AveXis Inc.
Ho Man Chan to Present at the 5th Cancer Targets & Therapeutics Conf. (July 7-8, 2014, in Boston)
Ho Man Chan, Novartis to Present at the 5th Cancer Targets & Therapeutics Conference (July 7-8, 2014, in Boston, MA). - May 16, 2014 - GTCbio
MiTeGen Announces Collaboration and License Agreements with MagnebotiX and NatX-ray
MiTeGen LLC, a provider of innovative consumables for X-ray diffraction, crystallography and protein crystallization to academic, pharmaceutical, industrial and government researchers around the world, announced that it has signed agreements with MagnebotiX AG, and with NatX-ray SAS, and NatX-ray LLC for the development and distribution of RodBot non-contact magnetic rolling sample manipulation technology for crystallization and crystal handling. - May 14, 2014 - MiTeGen, LLC
VIRUN NutraBIOsciences™, Leader in Cognitive-Functional-Ingredients, to Sponsor Cognitive Health Forum at NutraIngredients-USA
VIRUN, leader in Cognitive health ingredients, is sponsoring NutraIngreidents Cognitive Health Forum on May 22nd, 2014. According to NutraIngredients-USA, “Industry leaders from companies such as Abbott Nutrition, Standard Process, Nawgan, and Euromonitor will join for a discussion of the cognitive health sector, from science and claim substantiation, to market sizing and key consumer demographics.” - May 13, 2014 - VIRUN
Philippe Lopes-Fernandes to Speak at 3rd Oncology Partnering & Deal-Making – July 7-8, 2014, in Boston
Philippe Lopes-Fernandes, Senior Vice President of Global Licensing, Business Development & Alliance Management at Merck Serono, to Give a Keynote Presentation at the 3rd Oncology Partnering & Deal-Making Conference (July 7-8, 2014, in Boston, MA). - May 10, 2014 - GTCbio
Voicebrook to Exhibit Structured Results Entry Module at 2014 Pathology Informatics Summit
Voicebrook to demonstrate advanced reporting workflows and new product features. - May 08, 2014 - Voicebrook, Inc.
Supurva Healthcare Group and MediCall Systems Team Up in Strategic National Partnership
Supurva Biomedical, a subsidiary of Supurva Healthcare Group and MediCall Systems today announced a strategic partnership that enhances both companies’ position in offering healthcare specific solutions, while significantly expanding Supurva Biomedical’s reach in the US and Canada. The... - May 02, 2014 - Supurva Healthcare Group
Colorado BioScience Association Names Logan Collins, Fairview High School Junior, as Colorado’s BioGENEius Finalist
Logan Collins Advances to San Diego to Compete Against Top Students from Across the Nation and Canada. - May 02, 2014 - Colorado BioScience Association
Owen Fields, of Pfizer R & D to Speak at Antibody & Protein Mtg, Oct 23-24, 2014, Boston, MA
Owen Fields, Vice President of Regulatory Strategy for Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, to Give a Presentation titled “Regulatory Development Issues and Solutions for Combination and Bifunctional Biologics” at the Antibody and Protein Therapeutics Conference, October 23 &... - April 30, 2014 - GTCbio
David Merberg to Speak at Bioinformatics Conference Jun 19-20 2014, San Diego, CA
David Merberg at Takeda Pharmaceuticals to Give a Presentation at the Bioinformatics & Pharmacogenomics: Managing and Analyzing Big Data Conference (Jun 19-20, 2014 in San Diego, CA) - April 30, 2014 - GTCbio
John Herrmann to Speak at 3rd Oncology Partnering & Deal-Making Conf - July 7-8, 2014 in Boston
John Herrmann, Chief Scientific Officer of Global External R&D, Oncology at Eli Lilly to Give Keynote Presentation at the 3rd Oncology Partnering & Deal-Making Conference (July 7-8, 2014 in Boston, MA) - April 27, 2014 - GTCbio
NanoAxis Aligns with NanoApps Medical Inc. to Accelerate Commercial Novel Nanomedicine Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical Product Development
NanoAxis LLC has announced that it has become a shareholder in Canadian based company, NanoApps Medical Inc., to assist in accelerating nanomedical product development and commercialization. NanoApps Medical Inc. is actively collaborating with both Canadian and US based (Mayo Clinic, Rochester,... - April 26, 2014 - NanoAxis
BiologicsCorp Launches Supernatant Protein Expression Service
BiologicsCorp proudly launches this new service - another first in the industry. They have tested many variables, including codon optimization, strain, charperones and foldases, and others. Give Supernatant Service a try, especially if your protein of interest could not be expressed in soluble form. BiologicsCorp is confident and can guarantee success - no soluble fraction for target protein, no payment for expression service. - April 25, 2014 - BiologicsCorp
VoiceOver Solution Featured at Sunquest Regional User Group Meeting by Loyola University Medical Center
Loyola University Medical Center to Present Deployment of VoiceOver to User Group Attendees - April 23, 2014 - Voicebrook, Inc.
Voicebrook Announces Platinum Sponsorship of the Soft Network Users Group at the 22nd Annual SNUG Healthcare Information Technology Summit
Voicebrook to sponsor event, demonstrate new product features and showcase their advanced reporting workflows. - April 22, 2014 - Voicebrook, Inc.
Epitope Diagnostics, Inc. Expands Product Panel with New Set of H. Pylori Antigen ELISA Kits and Novel Sample Collection Device
Epitope Diagnostics, Inc. has launched two user-friendly fecal Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) antigen ELISA kits, along with a new sample collection device. One ELISA assay is qualitative while the other is quantitative, allowing for both the detection and measurement of active H. pylori antigen. H. pylori is a bacterium which causes infectious stomach disease and is linked to stomach cancer. A positive H. pylori antigen test indicates an active infection. - April 22, 2014 - Epitope Diagnostics, Inc.
Hawk Trade Atkinson to Accelerate Regenoderm Human Trials
Hawk Trade says that Christopher Atkinson, who recently joined the advisory board at Gerontology Solutions has begun acceleration of trial for a key therapy. - April 20, 2014 - Hawk Trade
Terry Gaasterland to Speak at Bioinformatics Conference Jun 19-20 2014, San Diego, CA
Terry Gaasterland, Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics at the University of California, San Diego to Give a Presentation at the Bioinformatics & Pharmacogenomics: Managing and Analyzing Big Data Conference (Jun 19-20, 2014 in San Diego, CA) - April 19, 2014 - GTCbio
Lisa S. Kove, Has Recently Been Recognized by America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals
America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals has selected Lisa S. Kove of San Diego, California as the Professional of the Year in Biotechnology for 2013. - April 10, 2014 - America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals
MOgene LC Announces Addition of Illumina NextSeq 500 Service
MOgene LC, an Illumina CSPro™ certified service provider, announced today that they have added Illumina NextSeq 500 to their list of services. Illumina NextSeq 500 performs whole-genome, exome, and transcriptome sequencing and is flexible, offering tunable read length and multiple output... - April 08, 2014 - MOgene, LC
Dr. Applegate to Join Advisory Board at Peptineo
Peptineo is pleased to welcome Dr. Robert Applegate to the advisory board of Peptineo. Dr. Applegate is a recognized expert in microfluidics, biomedical devices and optical technologies. As a result of his research, Dr. Applegate holds patents in optical trapping, cell diagnostics and sorting, and... - April 07, 2014 - Peptineo
Strathmore’s Who’s Who Honors Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli
Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli, of Atherton, California, has recently been recognized as a Professional of the Year by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Registry for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of Bio-Organic Chemistry. - April 05, 2014 - Strathmore Who's Who
ALPCO Expands EuroFlow™ Product Offering with the Addition of Plasma Cell Dyscrasias Screening Tube
ALPCO has expanded EuroFlow™ product offering with addition of the Plasma Cell Screening Tube from Cytognos S.L. - April 03, 2014 - ALPCO
Peptineo, a Biotechnology Company Focused on Value Recovery in Pharma, Announces the Appointment of Kamal Garcha PhD., to Advisory Board
"We welcome the addition of Dr. Garcha," noted Sheldon K. Jordan, PhD, CEO. Dr. Garcha holds an Honor’s BSC in Cell Biology and MSc. in Zoology from Western University, and a PhD. in Cellular & Physiological Sciences from the University of British Columbia. During the course of... - April 02, 2014 - Peptineo
Robert Dunn of Univ. of Kansas to Speak at Bioanalytical Sensors Mtg, May 22-23, 2014, Cambridge, MA
Robert Dunn, Professor of Chemistry at the Adams Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Kansas, is to give a presentation titled “Multiplexed Lable-Free Biosensing Using Whispering Gallery Mode Imaging” at the Inaugural Bioanalytical Sensors Conference, May 22 & 23,... - April 02, 2014 - GTCbio
Norman Dovichi of Notre Dame to Speak at Bioanalytical Sensors Mtg, May 22-23, 2014, Cambridge, MA
Norman Dovichi, Grace-Rupley Professor at the University of Notre Dame, is to give a presentation titled “Zone Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry at the zeptomole level,” at the Inaugural Bioanalytical Sensors Conference, May 22 & 23, 2014 in Cambridge, MA. Norman Dovichi received... - April 02, 2014 - GTCbio
Jaebum Choo of Hanyang Univ. to Speak at Bioanalytical Sensors Mtg, May 22-23, 2014, Cambridge, MA.
Jaebum Choo, professor in the Department of Bionano Technology at the Hanyang University, to give a presentation titled “Application of SERS-based optofluidic sensor for highly sensitive biomedical diagnosis,” at the Inaugural Bioanalytical Sensors Conference, May 22 & 23, 2014 in... - March 30, 2014 - GTCbio
Paul Bohn of Notre Dame to Speak at Bioanalytical Sensors Meeting, May 22-23, 2014, Cambridge, MA.
Paul W. Bohn, Arthur J Schmitt Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, to give a presentation titled “Tight Coupling of Chemical Sensing and Reactivity in Nanofluidic Architectures” at the Inaugural Bioanalytical Sensors Conference, May 22 &... - March 30, 2014 - GTCbio
Sunney Xie, Harvard to Keynote at Single Cell Analysis Conference, May 22-23, 2014, in Cambridge, MA
Sunney Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, to Give a Keynote Presentation at the Single Cell Analysis Conference 2014, May 22-23, 2014 in Cambridge, MA. - March 30, 2014 - GTCbio
Andrew Farmer, Clontech to Speak at Single Cell Analysis Meeting, May 22-23, 2014, in Cambridge, MA
Andrew Farmer, Vice President of Research and Development of Clontech Libratory, to Give a Presentation at the Single Cell Analysis Conference 2014, May 22-23, 2014 in Cambridge, MA. - March 30, 2014 - GTCbio
Revolutionary Science Teaching Model Transforms Diabetes HbA1c Blood Test Into Hand-Held Education
Biologic Designs launches first crowdfunding campaign to introduce its latest educational product, the Glycated Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Teaching Model. The biologic protein marker from the HbA1c blood test is no longer just a number; it is a physiological process that can be demonstrated to patients through tactile science education. - March 29, 2014 - Biologic Designs LLC
Danforth Center’s “Conversations” Series Continues
Nature’s Medicines: Translating Plants to Healthcare Applications - March 29, 2014 - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Summit Biosciences Announces Successful FDA Preapproval Inspection for Manufacturing of Nasal Spray Drug Product
Summit Biosciences Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce that the manufacturing facility in Lexington, Kentucky has successfully passed its first preapproval inspection by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The inspection for a new nasal spray drug product, which... - March 28, 2014 - Summit Biosciences Inc.
Dr. Sundar Nadarajan Joins the Advisory Board at Peptineo to Guide Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Platform for Protein Therapeutics
Sheldon K. Jordan, PhD, President and CEO, Peptineo, announces the appointment of Sundar Nadarajan, PhD, to the company's Scientific Advisory Board. They are extremely pleased that Dr. Nadarajan has joined the Peptineo Scientific Advisory Board. "He is an accomplished scientist and consulting... - March 27, 2014 - Peptineo
Pioneers in Adult Stem Cell Therapy Honored
The Alliance for the Advancement of Adult Stem Cell Therapy and Research hosted an awards luncheon for doctors and patients from around the world to recognize and honor their outstanding contributions and achievements in adult stem cell therapy. The Stem Cell Alliance event celebrated the revolutionary strides in the field of adult stem cell treatments for cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, spinal cord injuries and vascular diseases. - March 26, 2014 - Regenocyte Worldwide
Affinity Biologicals Inc. Now Offers a Complete Range of VisuLize™ Antigen ELISA Kits for Human Plasma Sample Analysis
VisuLize™ Antigen ELISA kits by Affinity Biologicals Ontario are used to determine Factor VIII, IX, XI and TAFI antigens in human plasma samples. - March 26, 2014 - Affinity Biologicals
Reagent Reservoirs from MTCBio Now Available at Major Distributor Pipette.com
Pipette.com has added the MTCBio reagent reservoirs to their large selection of liquid handling products which include pipettes, pipette tips, calibration service and laboratory equipment. This addition will benefit labs looking for a high quality reagent reservoirs. - March 20, 2014 - Pipette.com
Cancer Specialists in the Health Fields Highlight Benefits of Hyperbaric Chambers Sold Through Geoffrey H. Saft
Cancer specialists across the United States are now highlighting the potential advantages of a treatment regimen incorporating hyperbaric oxygen therapy. - March 15, 2014 - Hyperbaric Oxygen CA
Geoffrey Saft Hyperbarics Company Helping Doctors Capitalize on Latest Research by Providing Chambers for Their Clinics
Trusted hyperbarics specialist, Geoffrey Saft has announced that he is now empowering doctors across the country to enhance their clinics with the latest hyperbaric chambers. - March 15, 2014 - Hyperbaric Oxygen CA
Shoulder Options Receives 510(k) Clearance for Its Proprietary Fracture Plate, the GTFx
Shoulder Options Inc. announced today that it has received FDA clearance for another novel shoulder device, the Greater Tuberosity Fracture Plate (i.e. GTFx). Developed in collaboration with T. Bradley Edwards, MD, John Costouros, MD and Rhett Hobgood, MD, The patent pending GTFx plate is a... - March 14, 2014 - Shoulder Options, Inc.
Creative Biomart Launches New Services: Protein Labeling & Conjugation
Creative Biomart has announced the launch of a new offering for protein labeling and conjugation. - March 13, 2014 - Creative Biomart
Affinity Biologicals Inc. Has Become a Primary Manufacturer of Polyclonal Antibodies Used in Hemostasis & Thrombosis Research Around the World
Affinity Biologicals, the Ontario-based company has gradually become the primary manufacturer of Hemostasis & Thrombosis related polyclonal antibodies, which are delivered for research and diagnosis around the world. - March 12, 2014 - Affinity Biologicals
Bioo Scientific Launches a Sensitive ELISA for the Detection of Amantadine Residues in Meat
Bioo Scientific is releasing the MaxSignal Amantadine ELISA Test Kit for the detection of the banned veterinary drug amantadine. This drug has been previously used to protect poultry against avian influenza, and continues to be used by some farmers despite new regulations, to improve chicken survival in overcrowded conditions. - March 08, 2014 - Bioo Scientific