LANSING ? Neogen Corp. and Niowave will get housing assistance incentives from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to offer special mortgages and other financial incentives to recruit new employees. The Employer Assisted Housing program at MSHDA helps employers create their own housing benefit program and brings a zero-interest down payment loan of up to
TROY- Healthcare IT company CareTech Solutions has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Yampa Valley Medical Center of Colorado to continue to maintain YVMC's data center operations, applications and communications with physicians. No dollar value was provided. The new outsourcing agreement, effective Oct. 1, continues CareTech Solutions' longstanding relationship with YVMC, which began in January
GRAND RAPIDS ? BestNet has cut a deal with the Institut fur Umwelttechnologien GmbH of Berlin to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of its treatment for liver cancer. IUT will provide development and testing services in connection with the accomplishment of the Development Feasibility Phase of its Oncosphere program. Oncosphere is the Best Net?s radioactive microsphere
DETROIT - Compuware Covisint has created a strategic partnership with Initiate Systems to provide healthcare professionals with secure access to complete patient identification and medical records, despite where they are located. Covisint's healthcare offering will use Initiate?s Identity Hub software, providing a scalable solution that regional health information organizations, integrated delivery networks and other healthcare
DETROIT ? Human tissue bank company Asterand said it is making available new research materials that can be used to study rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, cancer and other diseases. The company is offering researchers cells that have been isolated from various parts of the body, including synovium from the joints of patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis
GRAND RAPIDS ? Rapid BioSense of Dexter has won the $15,000 MichBio 2006 Life Sciences Launchpad Competition held last week during the MichBio Expo in Grand Rapids. Rapid BioSense designs and markets a highly sensitive, specific, affordable and rapid biosensor able to detect bacteria and viruses. Uses for the sensor include microbiology tests in veterinary,
LANSING - Missouri is the only state with an embryonic stem-cell proposal on its ballot this November, but the Show Me state may do just that if citizens approve the measure, and organizations in other states, like Michigan, move to put the issue on ballot in 2008. Embryonic stem-cell research certainly has already become the
ANN ARBOR? MichBio members will have the opportunity to meet with business development, strategic alliance and licensing professionals from top pharma and medical device companies at the MichBio Expo Oct. 10-12 in Grand Rapids. The Business Development Meetings will be held on the last day of the Expo, October 12th, at the DeVos Center. ?We?re
GRAND RAPIDS ? Van Andel Institute CEO David Van Andel and David Duncan, co host of NPR?s Biotech Nation, will keynote the MichBio Expo Oct. 12 at the DeVos Place Convention Center in downtown Grand Rapids. The afternoon keynote features Edward C. Saltzman, President of Defined Health. Panels and Presentations - Leaders in the financial
ANN ARBOR ? Dr. Robert Moellering Jr., a Harvard Medical School professor, has joined the NanoBio Corp. board of directors. Dr. Moellering is the Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt of Professor of Medical Research at Harvard Medical School. From 1998 to 2005, he served as the Herrman Ludwig Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief