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Xmark Requests That Icagen Oust Its CEO and Pursue Strategic Alternatives, and Calls on Board Members to Resign

... for its compounds. We have been telling you so as the markets have fallen further and further, and as the company's cash on hand has fallen concomitantly. We believe that the management team and the Board of ...

Biotechnology Value Fund Delivers Letter to Board of Directors of Avigen, Inc.

... interests. Since January 1, 2004, Avigen's stock price has fallen more than 90% and the Company has accumulated a deficit of more than $110 ... with maximizing shareholder value. As evidence, Avigen's stock price has fallen more than 20% since the adoption of the poison pill. We find the poison ...

Biotech Shows Glimmer of an Upward Trend

... a corporate restructuring by slashing staff and putting promising projects in the refrigerator - YTD the Burrill Biotech Select Index has fallen 7 percent - The performance of the top five biotech companies since the beginning of the year: Amgen (-13.8 percent); Gilead Sciences ...

The MedZilla Report: March 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

... facilities in San Francisco and New Jersey.     Now that more companies are announcing layoffs as they see how far short they have fallen compared to their budgets, employees in danger of being laid off -- either real or perceived -- have increased their job search efforts. Applicants ...

Vasogen Announces 2008 Year-End Results

... Listing Qualifications Department of The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that the minimum closing bid price of our common stock had fallen below US$1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, and therefore, we were not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4) (the ....

Cytopia Letter to Progen Shareholders

... PI-88. Since that time: The board terminated the PI-88 Phase III study in liver cancer in July 2008; The share price has fallen from $9.49 in April 2007 to around $0.82, below cash backing; The board recently commissioned strategic recommendations for Progen but has ...

Physicians in Europe Rate Novartis #1 on Service Delivery, While Merck Earns Top Honors in the US

... f or T o p C o mpanies Even for companies earning high ratings among physicians, rep relationship scores have fallen since 2008. In the US, for example, the average TRI*M(TM) score -- a measure of relationship strength -- fell from 78 to 75. Although 75 is still a ...

Verenium Regains Compliance With Nasdaq Continued Listing Requirement

... that it has regained compliance with the continued listing requirements of The NASDAQ Global Market. NASDAQ previously notified Verenium that it had fallen out of compliance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4450(b)(1)(A), requiring listed companies on the NASDAQ Global Market to maintain a minimum ...

BioMed Realty Trust Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... assets, which assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes ratably over time. Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions. Because FFO excludes depreciation and amortization unique to real estate, gains and losses from property dispositions and ...

BioTrends Releases Quarterly TreatmentTrends(TM): Nephrology Report Highlighting Market Trends for Renal Anemia, Hyperphosphatemia, and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

... for the first time, overall satisfaction among the various phosphate binders is highest for Shire's Fosrenol. Concern with lanthanum absorption has fallen in recent quarters and is of significantly less concern than calcium absorption. Both Fresenius Medical Care's PhosLo and calcium carbonate continue ...

Vasogen Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results

... Listing Qualifications Department of The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that the minimum closing bid price of our common stock had fallen below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, and therefore, we were not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4) (the ...

Vasogen Receives NASDAQ Notification Related to Minimum Bid Price

... a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that the minimum closing bid price of its common stock had fallen below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, and therefore, Vasogen was not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4) (the "Rule"). In ...

EntreMed Receives Nasdaq Deficiency Notice

... the notification, "Micro-cap biotech companies, including ours, have experienced substantial downward pressure on stock prices. Our stock price has fallen in line with other oncology companies at our stage of development, a situation that I strongly believe is due to market weakness rather than any ...

NeoGenomics Announces Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year FY 2007

... at December 31, 2007 was approximately 78 days, down from 81 days on September 30, 2007. By the end of January our rolling three months DSO had fallen to 71 days. As a result, we turned cash flow from operations positive in January and we should be cash flow from operations positive for all of Q1. ...

Tapestry Receives Notice Regarding Minimum Bid Price Rule

... TPPH ) today announced that it received notice on December 18, 2007 from the Nasdaq Stock Market that the minimum bid price of its common stock had fallen below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days and that Tapestry was therefore not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4). In accordance with ...

Wisconsin must produce more science-savvy students to remain competitive

... the New York Times: The U.S. share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent. Physical ... share of Nobel Prizes, after peaking from the 1960s to the 1990s, has fallen in the 2000s to about half, 51 percent. There are some logical ...

Economic report raises red flags on Wisconsin's future

... However, despite all the spending and job creation, Wisconsin has still fallen behind in supporting this growth, the report says. The states efforts to fund higher education and research projects have fallen in the past two decades, with per capita public spending cut by 48 percent ...

Report: Wisconsin still lags in college degrees held by workforce, leads elsewhere

... brain drain is not a proper way to describe the problem. "Where we have fallen short is attracting graduates from other states," Still explained, blaming ... it is not a matter of keeping students in the state that Wisconsin has fallen behind in, but a failure to properly lure other college-educated workers ...

Debate over `intelligent design' is a not-so-wise diversion from science education

... reported statistics: The U.S. share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent. Physical ... share of Nobel Prizes, after peaking from the 1960s to the 1990s, has fallen in the 2000s to about half, 51 percent. There are some logical ...

Who is minding the Innovation Gap?

... weekend. The Memorial Day holiday is a paradox. It honors those who have fallen in military service to their country. With fluttering flags at gravestones ... but as Memorial Day fades into summer let us reflect upon those that have fallen and look hopefully to the future. Previous articles by Ogan Gurel ...

Angel Investing in Wisconsin

... million employees and Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to become a computer systems software pioneer. By 1996, Fortune 500 payrolls had fallen more than 25%, but an invisible entrepreneurial economy had created more than 25 million new jobs. In 1985, only 40%of the Forbes Four Hundred ...

The Tech Market is Looking Up

... - or not. Your adoption of technology will encourage or defeat initiatives that explore new concepts enabled by the building blocks that have quietly fallen into place during these last few years. The months ahead hold promise and change - and we can't really tell what lies ahead. But one thing is clear: ...

Seeds for high-tech economy are being planted, but growth will take time

... sciences. In 1997, Wisconsin churned out 88 Ph.Ds in science, engineering, computer science and math per 1 million residents. By 2002, the number had fallen to 60.5 million, according to the National Science Foundation. While Wisconsin is still ahead of the U.S. average, it has slipped slightly behind ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mosh pit

... Recently, it seems like lots of folks are bemoaning the fallen state of IT. I've come to lump these conversations in the "Dear Abby" bucket. Admit it. You've read at least one Dear Abby column that starts ...

Japan's pharma mergers will trickle to the Midwest

... There are obviously big stakes in this market. As Japan has a number of large pharma companies that never globalized, its pharma industry has fallen behind particularly in the U.S. and Europe (with the exception of the No. 1 Japanese company, Takeda, which ranked No. 15 in the world with annual ...

Bill would require data keepers to notify consumers of info leaks

... But Fitzgerald hopes it will serve as an impetus for companies to keep consumers in the loop if there's a chance that their personal information has fallen into the wrong hands. "We're not really creating an oversight agency," he said. "Really the legislation is designed as an incentive for the ...

Historic observatory becomes hot property on Lake Geneva

... has some worried its historic importance may be compromised by the wrong buyer. The former powerhouse of American astronomy, finished in 1897, has fallen out of the limelight since 1960 because of atmospheric pollution and new technological devlopments. A single full-time faculty member serves at ...

TomoTherapy considers IPO with medical-device business on the rise

... A technology that could bring better, safer treatments to cancer patients worldwide might have fallen through the cracks. Now Tomotherapy, a Madison medical-device firm with more than 200 employees that has grown to $44 million in sales, could go ...

Declaring independence from technology (sort of)

... improvements allowed us to complete work faster, we would use the extra hours gained by the technology to do more work. More work! We've fallen so much in love with technology our e-mails, mobile phones and online applications (even routers and Wi-Fi hot spots) that we forget sometimes that ...

Midwest is key player for Biofuels industry

... production and refining. More energy is needed to create a BTU of biofuel than biofuel itself produces. However, these arguments have fallen by the wayside due to: The impact of biotechnology on crop yield productivity Improved biomass refinery methods The significant increase in the ...

Are guest worker programs causing backlash amid IT downsizing?

... (including for the poorest one-fifth of American households during a time of high immigration levels). Today, the U.S. unemployment rate has again fallen to levels consistent with full employment and without diminished levels of immigration. Obviously, immigrants and native-born Americans alike can all ...

How's the State of the State? It depends on what numbers are crunched

... what Doyle didnt say during his televised address to the Legislature could matter just as much over time. The unemployment rate in Wisconsin has fallen a full percentage point to 4.7 percent since Doyle took office in January 2003. The number of jobs created since that time, when seasonally adjusted, ...

IT worker shortage linked to tech enrollment drop

... in July that an IT labor shortage could be developing in the state. In recent years, he said, the number of IT workers employed in Wisconsin has fallen flat even though wages have increased. Rice suggested that many qualified job candidates accept positions elsewhere based on a perception of ...

300 millionth American no cause for eco-alarm

... uses energy today more efficiently than ever before - although there's plenty of room for improvement. The loss of wetlands in the United States has fallen to about 10 percent of what it was in the 1960s. Life expectancy in the United States has grown by 30 years in the last century alone - and seven ...

Re-engineering our economy to be sustainable and profitable

... research and development - not just the research aimed at climate-friendly technologies - is less than half what it was a quarter-century ago. It has fallen to $3 billion per year in the most recent budget from an inflation-adjusted $7.7 billion in 1979, according to recent studies. President Bush ...

Motorcycling entrepreneur to speak in Madison on success, failure, capital

... road rash in the context of entrepreneurialism is both a literal and figurative term. Anyone who has been active in motor sports and business has fallen off a moving vehicle, but the more determined riders/entrepreneurs have hopped right back on - a little older and wiser. Frequently in a start-up ...

Economist calls for an end to "business as usual" on climate change

... will happen if the concentration doubles or increases by a factor of three or four. Smaller footprints Since global compliance efforts have fallen short, the effort to address climate change has become somewhat decentralized, with nations and regions deciding for themselves which strategies are ...
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