GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Research Institute has partnered with UK-based research charity The Cure Parkinson?s Trust on an initiative to identify new treatments for Parkinson?s disease. The collaboration, called the Linked Clinical Trials initiative, is aimed at repositioning medications approved to treat other diseases, which have also shown promise in slowing or reversing Parkinson?s
LANSING - The percentage of Michiganders without health insurance fell in 2013 from 11.4 percent to 11 percent, according to census data released Tuesday. According to the data, circulated by the Michigan League for Public Policy, 1,072,000 residents did not have health insurance in 2013. But the league said that number will fall much substantially
ANN ARBOR - Kicking off BioArbor?s Fall 2014 season, Carol Gallagher, past CEO of Calistoga Pharmaceuticals will present the story of the development of Zydelig and the formation and successful exit of Calistoga Pharmaceuticals on Sept. 18 at the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex. Come hear her drug development and venture-backed company development
DETROIT ? The early bird special price of only $199 to attend the MichBio Expo at MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit ends Sept. 5. Then the price goes up to $249. The program includes: Keynote address by FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD Plenary Luncheon with remarks by Joseph V. Gulfo, MD, MBA of Breakthrough
DETROIT - Just announced by MichBio, Joseph Gulfo, author of the Innovation Breakdown: How the FDA and Wall Street Cripple Medical Advances, has been named the plenary speaker for the MichBio Expo Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Motor City Casino. Gulfo is CEO of Breakthrough Medical Innovations, a team of biopharma and medtech consultants. An
ANN ARBOR - Is your company a bioscience start-up looking for exposure and support? Then apply for the MichBio Emerging Bioscience Showcase, a fast-paced competition of ten emerging, seed, and early-stage companies. Applications are due Aug. 29. Qualified ventures will include those evolving out of technology transfer offices or companies taking their first steps along
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s Life Sciences trade association, has posed four new jobs in its career center ? VP Clinical Development & Medical Director, Manager Business Development, Metrology Technician, and Process Engineer. Vice President, Clinical Development & Medical Director Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. - Ann Arbor Esperion seeks to recruit a highly qualified individual
GRAND RAPIDS - Sisu Global Health, a Michigan-based medical device startup company, has been nominated for the Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development grant, as part of a global competition for technologies impacting infant and maternal health. Sisu was nominated among more than 500 applicants including Fortune 500 companies, major research universities,
NOVI - Online registration is open for INNO-VENTION 2014, Southeastern Michigan?s premier health care and life science conference, Oct. 21-22 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. ?This is a very popular event and it?s gotten bigger every year, with last year?s conference drawing more than 600 people,? Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said.
LANSING - Total enrollment in Healthy Michigan, the state's expanded Medicaid eligibility program, has topped more than 355,000 people, the Department of Community Health showed on Monday. The latest milestone was reached less than one month after enrollments hit 320,000, which was the total expected for all of 2014. If enrollments continue at the current