DETROIT - Tej K. Mattoo, M.D., professor and chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan, recently received more than $1.7 million from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to continue the project, Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux in
SOUTHFIELD - Employers seeking college students majoring in engineering, computer science and technology disciplines will have the opportunity to meet a wide variety of undergraduates and recent graduates from two Oakland County colleges that attract top students in these fields from around the region. Tech x 2 Expo = OU + LTU, a joint career
SOUTHFIELD - The Hybrid Electric Vehicles Michigan group will be holding its 3rd quarterly networking reception Sept. 1 at the Westin Town Center. Greg Main, CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., is the keynote speaker. At this event professionals will have the opportunity to network with peers in the HEV industry, listen to a
LONDON - Consumers and businesses in Great Britain have lost more than $1 million so far this summer from a Trojan that is infecting their computers, prompting them to log into their bank accounts, and then is surreptitiously transferring money to scammers in other countries, security researchers said on Tuesday. About 3,000 bank accounts were
REDMOND - Microsoft issued a record number of monthly patches on Tuesday, including fixes for eight critical holes affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, and other programs that could be exploited to take control of a computer. Of the 14 patches addressing a total of 34 vulnerabilities, four of them should be given priority, Microsoft
SAN FRANCISCO - It looks like there's yet another little bug that compromises the privacy of Facebook users-all 500 million of them-and it doesn't matter how a user has set the account's privacy settings. The bug can be found in the error page that comes when a user attempts to sign in but types in
ANN ARBOR - Swift Biosciences announced Wednesday it has completed a $3 million Series A financing round led by DFJ Mercury, a Houston, Texas based early stage venture capital company. DFJ Mercury was joined in the Series A by several Michigan-based individual investors who also helped launch the company with seed funding in January 2010.
ANN ARBOR ? Three Michigan companies recently received a combined total of $140,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, bringing the total amount invested through the Fund to over $1.4 million. Detroit Electric, Ergun Technologies, and Local Orbit received the funding to support commercialization of their core products. Detroit Electric, based in Detroit, is the
LANSING - A revised version of a bill that would authorize the construction of the Detroit River International Crossing would limit the use public-private partnerships solely to the DRIC project, a key senator said Tuesday. But Sen. Jud Gilbert (R-Algonac) said he still has no firm timetable to take the bill up for a vote
LANSING - Allan Gilmour, once the top financial executive at Ford Motor Company, was named the interim president of Wayne State University by a unanimous vote of the school's Board of Governors. Gilmour succeeds Jay Noren, who resigned as president to be with his wife who is recovering from cancer. Gilmour has said he does