Biotech IPOs bring in encouraging sums
In last week’s column, I raised the premise that in the early years of biotech it wasn’t about making money but about providing radically new solutions to health care....
In last week’s column, I raised the premise that in the early years of biotech it wasn’t about making money but about providing radically new solutions to health care....
MADISON, Wis. — Mass storage vendor Seagate Technology is using nanotechnology from Madison-based Imago Scientific Instruments to meet the manufacturing challenges of building advanced hard drives....
The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, will take 40 representatives from Midwest colleges and corporations to Japan this September 25 through October 1. They will attend biotechnology conferences, visit research centers and network with Japanese companies. Governor Jim Doyle, who just this March led a...
Platypus Technologies has received a two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from a defense agency for $750,000, bringing its total 2004 SBIR funding to $3.29 million, the company announced Monday....
FITCHBURG, Wis. — Two of Fitchburg's larger technology companies will receive $250,000 each in tax credits to help them create and retain jobs, Governor Jim Doyle announced on Tuesday....
MADISON, Wis. — Third Wave Technologies, a Madison-based provider of genetic diagnostic tools, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has sued the California-based Stratagene Corp. to defend a patent on a type of blood test....
With its use of instruments such as didgeridoos and bagpipes, the Australian band Brother has created its own eclectic style. It is now trying to communicate the benefits of stem-cell research with its “Concert for Cures,” which comes to Milwaukee on September 17....
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin anatomy professor James Thomson attempted to “separate hype from reality” with a lecture on the controversial field of stem cell research, which in some cases uses tissue from human embryos. The pioneer in stem cell...
In a finding that may cause a dramatic shift in the way scientists and researchers search for a therapy for Alzheimer's disease, a team of researchers led by Jeff Johnson, an associate professor at the School...
MILWAUKEE—The Medical College of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday that it plans to implement extranet software from Click Commerce to automate all phases of its research concerning human subjects. Expected to launch by first quarter of 2005, the system is part of a long-range plan to...