ANN ARBOR - The quarterly event Sprouts, co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor IT Zone, MichBio and Arboretum Ventures, will highlight The Future of Suppliers to the Pharma/Biotech Industry June 2 at the Ann Arbor IT Zone. The keynote speaker will be Randal Charlton, CEO of Asterand, the Detroit-based human tissue bank that provides research material
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Van Andel Tuesday unveiled plans for a $150 million expansion of its medical research and education complex in downtown Grand Rapids in the heart of the city?s health-care district. Ground will be broken next spring on the 280,000 square foot addition to the west side of the original 186,000 square foot
FLINT ? Students and faculty members at Kettering University will have new opportunities to travel to study technology in Europe through a $1 million gift announced Monday by the former General Motors Institute. The gift will support the exchange of faculty and students to applied science universities in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, which Scientific
PONTIAC - GPSi, which supplies the GuidePoint Systems after market vehicle theft recovery service, has signed a three-year, $500,000 call center and help desk agreement with Teletouch Communications of Tyler, Texas. Guidepoint is sold through approximately 400 automotive dealers and expediters in major markets throughout the United States and Mexico. It integrates in-vehicle telematics with
GRAND RAPIDS ? A citywide wireless communications system in Grand Rapids would help local businesses better service their customers, but concerns over security and reliability are widespread as well, a survey released Monday by GLIMAWest and the city of Grand Rapids indicates. The survey, taken in April of some 500 people on the GLIMAWest email
NOVI ? Wireless technology and its impact on the Detroit Regional IT Market will be the theme of this year?s ITEC trade show, which runs May 18-19 at the Novi Expo Center. The event opens with a Keynote presentation by Glen Flowers, Midwest Vice President of Nextel Communications who will be speaking about the wireless
ANN ARBOR ? The Michigan Venture Capital Association said it supports Gov. Jennifer Granholm?s proposed $2 billion bond issue that would be used to create up to 72,000 new jobs in life sciences, alternative energy and other promising technologies. But the Association said Granholm?s Jobs for Michigan Fund is politically complex and challenging. ?The Governor's
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm needs ironclad support from her fellow Democrats in the Legislature to pass her plan changing the way the state taxes its businesses, but some of the party's legislators from Detroit are uncommitted because of its potential impact on insurance rates in the city. Granholm's plan would cut the SBT rate
GRAND RAPIDS ? GLIMAWest elected seven to its board Thursday night, and awarded $3,000 in scholarships to a Grand Rapids area high school and college student. Derek DeLange, a student at Grand Valley State University, and Jonathan Kiekintveld, a graduating senior at West Ottawa High School in Holland, each received $1,500 scholarships. Both are pursuing
KALAMAZOO - The Michigan High Throughput Screening Center (MHTSC) remains on track to open in late June. Construction is moving along rapidly in the new five thousand square foot laboratory at the Michigan Technical Education Center (M-TEC) in the Groves. The lab will contain state-of-the-art robotic equipment for various assays that will aid biotechnology companies