The Dave Clark Five song “Bits and Pieces” is a good metaphor for the apparently holey (as in Swiss cheese) tapestry of Midwest VC seed and early stage financing efforts to get life science companies off the ground. ...
MIDDLETON, Wis. – Lucigen Corporation has been awarded the maximum $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation under a special SBIR grant program for its enzyme research. The grant program is designed to help commercialize new products...
Third Wave Technologies announced Tuesday that it will repurchase up to 5% of its outstanding stock. The board of directors approved purchases on the open market or in private transactions in a show of confidence in the company's potential....
Merge eFilm announced Wednesday that its net income for second-quarter 2004 showed a small gain over the same quarter last year. Though its net sales, at $8,907,000, were up 38%, the Milwaukee-baesd healthcare software company's bottom line suffered because it paid more than twice as...
Deltanoid Pharmeceuticals, a Madison-based startup founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison medical researcher Hector F. DeLuca, is gaining steam in its attempt to develop a way to rebuild bone. Wednesday, Deltanoid showed up on the Fierce 15, a list of up-and-coming biotech companies published by Fierce...
MADISON – If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison's new $35.6 million biochemistry building....
CHICAGO – Anyone who has traveled to London and taken the “tube” (the subway for New Yorkers or the “L” for Chicagoans) is constantly besieged by tape loops of “mind the gap,” which is a warning for the dark hole or space between the subway...
LONDON—A $14 billion unit of General Electric has just been ranked the number-one healthcare information technology company in the 11th Annual Healthcare Informatics 100 published in the June 2004 edition of Healthcare Informatics, where companies are ranked by their health care IT revenue....
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Wednesday the first part of the government's plan to establish a national health information infrastructure in 10 years and bring electronic health records to every patient....
MADISON—After partnering up for two years, the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference and the Wisconsin Biotech & Medical Device Conference have decided to go their separate ways....