GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers at Van Andel Research Institute have slowed the growth of human tumors growing in a mouse model of a common form of kidney cancer by using lethal toxin, which causes anthrax. LEPIMAT blocks a specific signaling pathway in tumor cells that is required for tumor growth. VARI researchers have previously shown
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, the Michigan life science trade association, will host Joseph Papa, chairman and chief executive officer of Perrigo Company, as the keynote speaker for its April 22 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor. Papa's topic will be Meeting the World's Growing Need for Quality, Affordable Healthcare Products. Perrigo, based in Allegan, is a
KALAMAZOO - Training programs in three health-care fields in need of quality technicians will begin in March at Kalamazoo Valley Community College?s Arcadia Commons Campus. Registration deadlines are in March. The non-credit courses will prepare those with at least a high school diploma or GED equivalent for employment as a medical billing-and-coding professional, a phlebotomy
KALAMAZOO - Axenic Dental, a portfolio company of the Apjohn Group, a life science business acceleration company in Kalamazoo, announced Thursday that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to market a patented new disposable high-speed dental drill, the Axenic DHP. The Axenic DHP was developed and laboratory tested over two years by
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation Wednesday announced that it has acquired privately held Hilgraeve, a Monroe, Michigan, a Microsoft connectivity partner that recently has focused on solving connectivity problems in the healthcare, automotive and financial industries. No terms were announced. This acquisition makes Compuware Covisint the world's largest on-demand collaboration platform for lab and prescription data
KALAMAZOO - Metabolic Solutions Development Co., a therapeutics company, is the sixth investment for the Southwest Michigan First Life Sciences Fund. The company was founded in Kalamazoo in 2006 by two retired Pfizer scientists, Rolf Kletzien, PhD, and Jerry Colca, PhD. Their scientific strategy is build on understanding insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones to create a new generation
DETROIT - A. Paul Schaap, former Wayne State University chemistry professor and founder of Southfield-based Lumigen Inc., and his wife Carol, have donated $7.7 million to support expansion of the Chemistry Building and the A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Stipend Fund. WSU, pending approval by the Board of Governors, will name
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot will open January 31 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. to distribute consumables to companies that qualify. Biotechnology companies also will have the chance to review the $6 million in laboratory equipment donated by Pfizer. To qualify you must have a Certificate of Eligibility from a Michigan SmartZone
LANSING - Acting deliberately on the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that allowed women the right to abortion, the Senate on Tuesday passed SB 776 that would mimic the federal law banning the so-called partial-birth abortion process. Later in the day, an effort by House Republicans to tie-bar the Senate bill to
LANSING - Proponents of changing Michigan law to permit all types of stem cell research are now attempting to get a constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Mark Burton, who was legislative counsel for the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (now Michigan Association for Justice) before opening up his own consulting firm this year, is heading