Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company with research operations in San Diego and Athens, Ga., has agreed to provide human embryonic stem cell lines to the National Stem Cell Bank in Madison. The addition of the Novocell lines, which will be distributed to researchers...
Platypus Technologies has been awarded a $2.3 million contract with the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center in Maryland to advance the development of liquid crystal-based sensors in military and civilian applications. The announcement comes on the heels of the company's newest product launch, a cell...
After more than a decade of research, Madison's Quincy Bioscience has introduced Prevagen, a product that is specifically designed to fight the aging process. The dietary supplement uses a calcium-binding protein found in jellyfish to replace age-fighting proteins lost in the normal process...
Our innovation is fueled by the strength of the U.S. patent system, yet there is a movement to erode the very system that is driving entrepreneurialism, according to Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of BIO, which will hold its Mid-America VentureForum this month in Milwaukee....
The Wisconsin business climate is underrated by deceitful stats - new company formation for one - but some new metrics have been published that put the state economy in a much brighter light, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still...
Colin Scanes was recruited to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to grow the university's research enterprise and help make UWM an even larger force in Milwaukee's economy. In a recent appearance before the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association, Scanes pointed out that a great deal...
A women-only angel investment network based in Milwaukee has added angel groups in Chicago and Miami, and will expand to two more locations within the next 12 months. Women Angels, founded by Wisconsin attorney Barbara Boxer, has a portfolio that already includes TrafficCast International and...
Isomark, a Madison biotech founded by seven University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists, has appointed Daniel J. Stewart as its president and chief executive officer. The company has developed a technology to identify specific biomarkers in human breath and enable the early detection of disease....
The state Department of Commerce has provided Madison's Stratatech Corp. with a $750,000 technology grant to promote the development of its wound-healing products. Stratatech, founded in 2000, had recently secured a federal Small Business Innovation Research grant of $1.45 million to help develop its wound-care...
If targeted radiation therapy is indeed the wave of the future, Madison's TomoTherapy expects to ride it. First, however, the newly minted public company must educate investors about its unique sales patterns, which may not always satisfy them when the medical device company releases its...