Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee's municipal government uses an emergency room management application that includes a Web-based syndromic surveillance system for spotting potential epidemics, said Dr. Seth Foldy, the city's health commissioner....
New York, NY - One certain consequence of the nearly $60 billion acquisition of Pharmacia by Pfizer: executive-suite cleaning. The first bigwig out the door is Dr. Göran Ando, who headed up Peapack, N.J.-based Pharmacia's research and development operations. Today, Celltech, one of Europe's biggest...
Madison, WI - First prize of $10,000 in the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition Friday was awarded to Virent Energy Systems, Inc., represented by Shailesh Ghimire, a second-year MBA student, and Mustapha Ould Eleya, a second-year MBA with a PhD in food science....
Eau Claire, WI - Getting a tiny magnetic head to ride consistently on a cushion of air just 15 nanometers above a spinning hard drive is hard enough. But, try to do it profitably when the technology you thrive on starts to work against your...
By 2008, our economy will have a different look and feel as traditionalists (b. 1925 – 1942) and baby boomers (b. 1943 – 1960) continue to exit the workforce, by choice or not....
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently began requiring applicants to pay significant user fees when filing applications in connection with new medical devices and biologics. Such user fees have long been required for drug-related applications, and now also are required for applications related to...
Spring of ’99 was a great time to start companies, and some wonderful businesses came out of the WAVE Program (Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Marsha McVickers’ Errand Solutions and Neil Peters-Michaud’s Cascade Asset Management. As an MBA student,...
MIDDLETON, WI - To assist healthcare providers in complying with the marketing portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule that becomes official today for most providers, Customer Potential Management (CPM) Marketing Group, Inc., has developed a guide to HIPAA and...
CHICAGO, IL – Growing up, "life turns on a dime" was one of my mother's favorite expressions. She always told me that life could change in the blink of an eye. Personally, this happened to me in May 1995 when I woke up and had...
Madison, WI – Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals may become the next Biotech star in Madison, Wisconsin if a recently signed $42.5 million agreement with Pfizer is any indication....