EAST LANSING - Great Lakes Health Information Exchange has signed a partnership agreement with Eaton Rapids Medical Center that will allow the hospital to safely and securely share patient electronic medical records with its physicians, labs, other allied health facilities, and other hospitals and health care systems through a health information exchange system in the
ROCHESTER - The Oakland University William Beaumont Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine will welcome both national and international experts in stem cell research and its biotechnological applications when it hosts the Second Midwest Conference on Stem Cell Biology and Therapy set for Oct. 5-7. Researchers from hospitals, medical organizations, academic institutions and the
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute has hired former State Department Science and Technology Advisor Jana Hall, Ph.D., M.B.A., as Chief Operations Officer effective September 17. Hall joins the non-profit biomedical research organization following nearly twenty years in research administration and operations management for a 6,400-employee healthcare organization. ?Dr. Hall?s innovative approach, significant management experience
ANN ARBOR - MichBio has appointed David McGuire as the Director, Membership & Operations. He repots to MichBio President and CEO Stephen Rapundalo. McGuire is in charge of managing MichBio?s membership goals; including awareness of existing MichBio services, the expansion of new programs, and supporting the overall health of MichBio?s member companies and in-kind partners.
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan and the International Genomics Consortium have launched a new joint venture that will help usher in an age of personalized medicine. Called Paradigm, the new nonprofit company brings together the expertise of the U-M Health System and IGC, two leaders in using genetic information to understand and treat
KALAMAZOO - Physicians at medical centers in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids are helping to identify interested individuals for participation in a clinical trial of a novel drug therapy for patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. MSDC-0160, a new drug which is also being developed as a treatment for diabetes by Kalamazoo-based Metabolic Solutions Development
GRAND RAPIDS - A discovery by Van Andel Institute researchers has identified a potential drug target for NK/T-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer responsible for claiming the life of a close friend and fellow researcher. A study, authored by Bin Tean Teh, M.D., Ph.D., and published this week in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the
KALAMAZOO ? BioStar Ventures and the Michigan Accelerator Fund led a $5.3 million preferred stock investment in Ablative Solutions Inc., a Kalamazoo-based medical device company with a new technique for fighting high blood pressure. ASI says it is developing a ?significantly different? approach to renal denervation, a new therapy for high blood pressure and other
LANSING - A study comparing individual to group health insurance policies in Michigan and several other states found that the average individual policy did not meet basic coverage requirements the 2010 Affordable Care Act will mandate of policies sold through statewide exchanges. The study, conducted by the University of Chicago and the firm of Towers
GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers from South Korea, Sweden, and the United States - including Van Andel Research Institute - have collaborated on a project that could eventually lead to treatments for Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and psychiatric problems. The project seeks to restore neuron function to parts of the