GRAND RAPIDS ? Bioscience trade association MichBio on Thursday presented its "Legislator of the Year" award to U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan's 8th District, for providing leadership on legislative issues important to the biosciences industry. The award was presented on the second day of the MichBio Expo. Stephen Rapundalo, Ph.D., President and
ANN ARBOR - Kai Yang, professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, will discuss important success factors for industrial engineering to effectively improve the healthcare industry's performance Nov. 7 at Cleary University. The American healthcare industry is facing challenges because of increasing healthcare cost, dissatisfaction with healthcare quality, and
GRAND RAPIDS - The MichBio Expo & Conference was already the largest gathering of bioscience professionals in the state attracting approximately 500 participants and more than 50 exhibitors Nov. 2-3 at DeVos Place. Now MichBio includes exclusive Grand Rapids bioscience facility tours. In addition to co-sponsoring the expo, WMSTI will be a venue for the
DETROIT - RetroSense Therapeutics announced that it has executed its exclusive, worldwide option and signed a license agreement for novel gene-therapy approaches for treating blindness developed at Wayne State University's School of Medicine. Zhuo-Hua Pan, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and cell biology in the School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Salus University in Pennsylvania,
ANN ARBOR - The Advanced Medical Technology Association has named Stephen Rapundalo, Ph.D., president and CEO of MichBio, chair of its State Medical Technology Alliance. The mission of the alliance, a national network of associations representing medical device manufacturers affiliated with AdvaMed, is to collectively support the industry by fostering a collaborative environment through sharing
LANSING - Michigan officials need to move with some dispatch to enact a health exchange in order to ensure the federal government does not impose an exchange on the state, members of both the House Health Policy committees were told Thursday by insurance company executives. But Republicans questioned why the government should set up such
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Research Institute is part of a team of Michigan researchers awarded a $3.5 million grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to study cancer stem cells in an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that disproportionately affects African-Americans. The study is a collaborative effort between several leading research centers in
LAKE LINDEN ? A Western Upper Peninsula Michigan biotech company has received $500,000 from federal and state grants to develop test kits for phosphates, an important measurement for agriculture production and in water quality protection. The Small Business Innovation Research Program of the National Institute of Agriculture, the research arm of the US Department of
AUBURN HILLS - CJPS Healthcare Supplies & Equipment Thursday announced a new agreement to provide 33,000 units of its remote patient monitor VitalPoint to groups of visiting physicians in the United States. The contract is valued at more than $100 million. VitalPoint is a standalone 4.5-pound device that can monitor blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation,
LANSING - Despite another failed attempt to require that universities conducting embryonic stem cell research in Michigan report those activities to the state through the higher education budget, advocates of the reporting requirements are pressing ahead with calls to put that language in the Public Health Code. Earlier this year, the Legislature put in boilerplate