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
GRAND RAPIDS ? Ideomed a developer of mobile health solutions, has received word from the Food & Drug Administration that its mobile health app Abriiz meets the definition of a medical device for which the FDA intends to exercise Enforcement Discretion. This designation identifies mobile medical devices that ?are not subject to further FDA regulatory
DETROIT - Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will be the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual MichBio Expo & Conference Center at MotorCity Casino on Sept. 30. Registration opened July 31. Hamburg, as FDA Commissioner, is advancing regulatory science, medical product innovation and globalization of the agency, while
LANSING - As a MichBio member, did you know that your company can save up to 33 percent on your shipping needs via MichBio?s FedEx Advantage Program? This includes great discounts on FedEx?s CryoPort Deep Frozen Solutions, with temperature control down to -150C. In addition, we?ll soon be rolling out additional Michigan-region savings for specialty