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
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, the state's life sciences industry association, said it will add a competition for seed stage life sciences companies in Michigan ? with a top prize valued at more than $15,000 ? to the MichBio Expo in Grand Rapids this October. The Life Sciences Launchpad is open any Michigan-based life sciences company,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Van Andel Institute has brought some world renowned scientists to West Michigan to honor the lifetime achievements of VAI Research Director George Vande Woude and this year?s Daniel Nathans Memorial Award co-recipients. More than 250 scientists from around the world are attending the Van Andel Institute?s 2006 scientific symposium, Winning the War
ANN ARBOR ? Pfizer has donated more than $4 million in surplus laboratory equipment to Ann Arbor SPARK and MichBio, which will lease the equipment to deserving Michigan technology start ups, with particular emphasis on life sciences companies. Pfizer, Michigan?s largest life-sciences company, donated more than 200 pieces of surplus research equipment to help get
ANN ARBOR ? Twelve MichBio member life sciences organizations won a total of $21.5 million from the first round of the 21st Century Jobs Fund. "We congratulate those of our members who are award recipients, ? said Stephen Rapundalo, Executive Director of MichBio. "These awards recognize the outstanding opportunities MichBio life sciences member organizations offer
ANN ARBOR - The 2006 MichBio Expo on Wednesday announced two of its keynote speakers for this year's conference to be held in Grand Rapids this October ? David Duncan, the co host of NPR's Biotech Nation, and David Van Andel, the CEO of the Van Andel Institute, a biomedical R&D center in Grand Rapids.
DETROIT ? Allied Minds, a pre-seed investment corporation specializing in early stage university business ventures, has partnered with Wayne State University to create GliaGen, which will specialize in novel diagnostic and therapeutic technologies specifically tailored to treat neurodegenerative diseases. GliaGen has exclusively secured platform technology developed by Drs. Leon Carlock and Maria Cypher at the
DETROIT ? Tissue bank Asterand is offering medical researchers the ability to obtain gene expression data through its new online gateway called Xpressway, the result of almost ten years of work by an Asterand team that specializes in human tissue-based research. Xpressway will help medical researchers understand which genes are expressed in different parts of