Last year, Scott Allocco spent 12 hours sitting on a downtown Baltimore sidewalk, waiting to turn in his application to get a tax credit for the angel investors who'd promised to give money to his cancer diagnostics company, BioMarker Strategies. He was the third company...
As California wrestles with a horrendous budget deficit, the axe hangs over almost every area of state spending, from welfare to education. But there is one activity set for healthy growth: stem cell research. Dozens of new laboratories are being fitted out and hundreds of scientists...
Editor's Note: This is a press release and WTN is politically neutral and strives to present opposing views. The President's Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer...
BIOMED is the Israeli annual medical device and biotech conference taking place this week in Tel Aviv. For the 4th straight year, Illinois is present at this event with representatives from the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Association, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Illinois Science + Technology...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named the vice dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health as the new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, officials announced Thursday. Paul M. DeLuca Jr., who joined the university faculty in 1973, will replace former provost Patrick...
If you like numbers and acronyms, you will like this article. SSTI (State Science and Technology Institute), a national nonprofit network of practitioners and policymakers dedicated to improving the economy through science and technology, recently published SBIR Phase I proposal and award statistics by state...
At a recent global biotech convention in Atlanta, 27 states, including Hawaii and Oklahoma, paid as much as $100,000 each to entice companies on the exhibition floor. All this for a highly risky industry that has turned a profit only one year in the past...
Despite the continued slow economy throughout 2008, Dane County's technology industries continued to add to their ranks at a steady pace and combined to generate nine percent more revenue in 2008, according to the 2009 Greater Madison, Wisconsin Area Directory of High-Tech Companies published by...
Rich Meeusen, the energetic CEO of Badger Meter and a driving force behind Milwaukee's efforts to become a global hub of water technology businesses, expected to be outnumbered at last week's public hearing on a proposed lakefront site for UW-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences. “That's OK,”...
Governor Jim Doyle announced that Integrated Genomics, Inc. will receive a total $250,000 from the Technology Venture Fund. They will be relocating their laboratory and commercial operations to Madison from Chicago. They estimate that up to 18 new positions will be created....