Stem cell researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Stanford Medical School have joined a new national consortium linking teams of scientists who normally work independently with other groups that seek to discover new therapies for varied human disorders. The government-funded venture will encourage...
A joint venture partner of Johnson Controls' Building Efficiency business in Saudi Arabia, Al Salem Johnson Controls JV, was awarded an $87 million project to supply energy-efficient chillers at Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University. The university is being built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After installation,...
Merck CEO `Actively Looking' for Biotech Deals...
Exactly one year after his historic election to the White House, President Barack Obama came to a racially diverse charter school in Madison Wednesday to outline his plans for education reform."The United States, a nation that has always led the way in innovation, is now...
President Obama delivered remarks in Madison about a clean energy economy that will free America from the grip of foreign oil and generate millions of good-paying jobs in the process. He spoke about offering the best possible education to America's sons and daughters. "The prosperity...
UW- Madison is among research institutions sharing in funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, using $5.4 million of Recovery Act funds to accelerate basic studies of stem cells. ...
Philanthropist Michael Cudahy's financial support has vanished and some faculty are skeptical, but the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee remains committed to creating a science research facility and business park in Wauwatosa. The development is a big part of Chancellor Carlos Santiago's campaign to attract research dollars and...
Foley & Lardner LLP announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $208 million contract to the firm for Intellectual Property services for up to 10 years. Beginning this month, the firm will be responsible for performing contested proceedings work in the areas...
Back in 1993, when the first Healthcare Reform was initiated, the pharmaceutical world very worried for many months. This time around the industry has rushed to embrace the Obama program early, with hopes that with an FDA biosimilars (bio-generics) program in the making that the...
To cope with this increasing workload at a time of shrinking budgets, legal departments are doing what other areas like sales, finance and human resources did long ago: namely, leveraging technology. Previously they may have relied on service providers offering expensive white-glove service, now they...