Biotech

An Australian climate change agency has awarded a Madison energy business with a $275,000 grant to continue development of technologies that limit greenhouse gas emissions. The New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change awarded the technology climate action grant to BEST Energies for...

The recent controversy over GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia has once again put the Food & Drug Administration in Congressional crosshairs. In Part I of a MedTech Futures column on the FDA approval process, Dr. Ogan Gurel suggests that safety-minded FDA employees be taken more seriously. ...

Angel investments in early-stage Wisconsin companies topped $100 million last year, but the average size of the Wisconsin angel deal - $2.2 million - has at least one observer wondering if some angels are taking the place of venture investors in follow-up rounds. Just over...

Cutting taxes always works to stimulate economic growth, according to State Senator Ted Kanavas, and the Wisconsin Act 255 tax credit program is further proof. In this guest column, Kanavas implores the Legislature to keep that lesson in mind as a proposed expansion to the...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has entered into global licensing agreements with Becton Dickinson and Stem Cell Technologies, Inc., allowing them to develop and commercialize growth media and tissue culture services used in embryonic stem cell research. The products are made possible by findings at...

Perscitus Biosciences will use a $250,000 loan from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to further develop two promising scientific technologies., including one that selectively protects normal cells from the toxic effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Both technologies have passed early proof-of-concept milestones. ...

NeoClone, a Madison biotechnology company, has landed a $750,000 federal contract to continue its research into a test for ovarian cancer, which is one of the most difficult forms of cancer to detect in its early stages. Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of...