MADISON, WI - Promega Corporation has announced an agreement with Abbott Laboratories to that will give molecular diagnostics laboratories the ability to further automate testing for infectious diseases....
The law firm Foley & Lardner is teaming with Titan Venture Partners and the University of California, San Francisco to create a biotechnology incubator at Mission Bay. The goal: to convert the intellectual property of the university into new businesses that...
Drug giant Eli Lilly & Company recently expressed concern to Department of Health and Human Services officials that the HIPAA privacy rule may impede clinical research trials....
MADISON, WI- EraGen Biosciences, Inc. announced today that it has developed a new SARS specific assay test using their proprietary Gene-Code(TM) technology. The test is now in the hands of USAMRIID (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) and...
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...
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....
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....
WAUKESHA, WI - GE Medical Systems, a unit of General Electric Company, announced today that it has received clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing its new 3.0 Tesla ultra-short magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system....
Chicago, IL - The recent Chicago biotech festivals weren’t the only indicators that biotech in Illinois is finally coming of age....
A great perk to traveling – getting to see what the rest of the world is doing. Last week I was in Phoenix vacationing with the family for spring break, content to play a few rounds of golf and see a ballgame, when I was...