Defense in Biological Technology

Powerful Image Registration and Recognition Software Unveiled for Medical, Satellite, and Defense Imaging Industries

Image Registration and Recognition Software developed by Dr. Charles Stewart at DualAlign LLC is breaking new ground in medical imaging, satellite imaging and defense imaging. The breakthrough software is helping professionals automatically align and stitch images even if the originals were taken...

NC Biomanufacturers Supply Defense for World vs. Flu

Huge GSK, Novartis, Merck plants help define state's economic successes RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The global fight against swine flu is shining a spotlight on North Carolina's long-term commitment to biomanufacturing. Global pharmaceutical giant Gl...

Inimex Pharmaceuticals begins First Clinical Study of an Innate Defense Regulator

Phase 1 healthy volunteer study of IMX942 will provide human safety and pharmacodynamic data VANCOUVER, April 28 /PRNewswire/ - Inimex Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce that its novel Innate Defense Regulator (IDR) IMX942 was administered to human subjects for the first time on...

ArunA Biomedical Awarded Department of Defense Contract to Further Develop Environmental Biosensor for National Security

ATHENS, Ga., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- ArunA Biomedical, Inc., a leader in human embryonic stem cell derived products, announced today that it has been awarded a Department of Defense contract to develop an environmental biosensor utilizing its human stem cell technology. (Logo: http://w...

Bell Ventures Launches Breakthrough Radical Defense Skin Care Ingredient

BOSTON, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Ventures LLC, a leader in innovative antioxidant solutions in food, nutrition, and skin care, announces the release of its new, high-performance natural ingredient, GlobalPAX(TM). GlobalPAX(TM) is a proprietary extract made from the world's finest natura...

Advanced Life Sciences Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Biodefense Contract Valued at up to $3.8 Million

- Two-Year Contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Will Fund the Advanced Development of Cethromycin as a Potential Broad-Spectrum Medical Countermeasure - CHICAGO, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADLS ), to...

Department of Defense Awards $5.8 Million Contract Modification Providing Additional Funding for PharmAthene's Protexia(R) Program

ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc., (Amex: PIP ) a biodefense company specializing in the development and commercialization of medical countermeasures against chemical and biological terrorism, announced today that it has been awarded a contract modification ...

ICx Awarded Department of Defense Contract for AirSentinel Monitors

Particulate Sensor for Airborne Biological Threats Receives Government Order and Patent WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ICx Technologies, a developer of advanced technology solutions for homeland and military security, announced today a contract award to procure ...

GlaxoSmithKline Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Contract to Pursue Novel Antibacterial Research Program

GSK Increases Research Effort to Target Drug-Resistant Gram Negative Pathogens PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S...

ImmuneRegen Responds to Defense Threat Reduction Agency Request for Information

Protocols on ImmuneRegen's Homspera(TM) Submitted to RFI, 'Therapeutic Countermeasures against CDC Category A and B Threat Agents' SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Research and development biotechnology company ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary o...

Innovative Beverage Products Launches New Product Designed to Enhance the Body's Immune Defense

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Cold season has settled in for the winter months and since the common cold is a leading cause for doctor appointments and missed days of school and work, now is the time to take steps to help boost your immune system. And Immunity Enhanced Beverage is designed...

Protein-printing technique gives snapshots of immune system defense

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Nov. 3, 2008) When Albrecht Durer and other Renaissance artists painstakingly etched images onto plates, swabbed ink into the fine grooves and transferred the images to paper with a press, they never could have guessed that centuries later the same technique would uncover the se...

CHS Receives Prestigious Honor from Department of Defense

One of Only 15 Companies Recognized Nationally SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CHS, an inVentiv Health company (Nasdaq: VTIV ), was recently honored by the U.S. Department of Defense as a recipient of the 2007 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Aw...

SportCoatings; The North American Booster Club Association (NABCA); the Coatings Specialist Group New Booster Program Goes High Tech With Invisible Antimicrobial Defense

SportCoatings(TM) and NABCA Introduce FabricAide(TM) to High Schools Nationally ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry leading SportCoatings(TM) and the North American Booster Club Association (NABCA), enthusiastically introduce the FabricAide(...

Chippewa Valley Draws Defense Dollars

EAU CLAIRE, WI- Efforts at improving communication and technology in the battlefield could help to improve the economic outlook of the Chippewa Valley. Thanks in large part to efforts by Rep. Dave Obey (D-7th District), several Chippewa Falls-area companies are in line to receive defense contrac...

Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies

WASHINGTON A strain of avian influenza is detected on a poultry farm in Texas. Soon, there are reports of the same flu strain on farms in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. How can health officials be mobilized to stop the flu from making the leap from birds to humans? That process may well...

Wisconsins untapped defense might: why saving military bases is just a start

MADISON Gov. Jim Doyles effort to keep Wisconsins five military installations off the Pentagons closure list deserves a crisp salute and not just because those bases bring nearly $850 million per year to the Wisconsin economy. Wisconsin is a hidden fortress of ideas and materials to be used in...

Platypus keeps gathering federal funding with $750,000 for defense research

Platypus Technologies has received a two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant for $750,000, bringing its total 2004 SBIR funding to $3.29 million, the company announced Monday. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration gives SBIR funding to U.S. small business...

Medical College of Wisconsin researcher gets national defense appointment

Harry Whelan Harry Whelan has become the first Medical College of Wisconsin researcher to be appointed to the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Whelan, a professor of neurology and director of the college's hyperbaric medicine unit, has signed a two-year contract at the Cen...

Alfalight garners $1.4 million defense funding for diode program

Madison, Wis. - Alfalight, Inc. , a Madison-based manufacturer of high-power diode lasers for industrial, defense, and telecommunications markets, has been awarded $1.4 million in funding for Phase II of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research...

Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business

Congress has approved a $500,000 start-up grant for the recently announced Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, a non-profit group for classified, defense-related projects. The consortium, led by the Wisconsin Technology Council, will also initially include the UW System, the Medical College...

Small Tree receives $3.4M Defense funding for networking system

Eau Claire, Wis. Small Tree Communications , which makes network hardware for Mac OS X systems, is to receive $3.4 million in federal appropriations to make battlefield communications technology for the U.S. Army. The money is part of the fiscal year 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill. Small T...

Chippewa Valley to get $46 million in defense spending

Chippewa Falls , Wis. - Area high-tech firms could receive a total of $46 million from the federal government for military research and development as part of the House-approved 2007 defense budget. Secured by Democratic Congressman Dave Obey , the allocations still need approval from the ...

Wisconsin's failure to attract federal defense dollars crimps tech economy

Economists love to compare the performance of Minnesota and Colorado to Wisconsin. Theyre similarly sized states, all removed from the East and West coasts, and each lays claim to being a high-tech haven. But the comparisons end when it comes to federal research spending on defense and aerospa...

Chippewa Valley firms land more defense work

Chippewa Falls, Wis. - Wisconsin attracts far fewer defense research dollars annually than states like Minnesota and Colorado, but a number of public and private initiatives are quietly positioning the state as a bastion for high-tech national security projects. These projects and others like ...

National Bio and Agro Defense fits Wisconsin

Madison, Wis. - It's not every day that Wisconsin has a chance to attract a major federal laboratory. It has been more than 30 years since the National Wildlife Health Center was established in Madison, and nearly 100 years since the University of Wisconsin was selected over the University...

MATC student team wins cyber defense contest

Madison, Wis .- Who says Wisconsin college students are no longer interested in technology careers? A team of information technology students from Madison Area Technical College has won first place in the first round of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, beating four teams from Minneso...

Research consortium aims to bring security and defense contracts to Wisconsin

Madison, Wis. - Wisconsin ranks in the lower half of states in federal contracting dollars, but a new consortium is ready to help researchers and companies land more federal security contracts. The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium , funded by a grant from the U.S. Small Business Admini...

Small Tree Communications awarded $2.85M defense contract

Chippewa Valley, Wis. - Small Tree Communications , a provider of enterprise networking components, has been awarded $2.85 million defense contract for continued development of communications technology. This funding, part of the FY 2007 defense appropriations bill, was awarded through a comp...

VIASPACE Pursuing Renewable Energy Business in Asia

...here the direct methanol fuel cell was invented. VIASPACE subsidiary Ionfinity has operations in security-related systems and technology for military, defense and commercial applications. VIASPACE also sells high-performance lithium-ion batteries and the BA-1000 battery health analyzer instrument. For more i...

Advanced Life Sciences Receives Complete Response Letter From FDA for Restanza(TM) (Cethromycin) in Community Acquired Pneumonia

...eloping Restanza as a potential treatment for CAP, Advanced Life Sciences has received a $3.8 million contract from the Department of Defense, via the defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), to fund NDA-enabling studies to evaluate Restanza's efficacy against bioterror agents such as tularemia, plague and me...

CuraGen Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...ections of net cash at closing from the repurchase of debt at a discount as partial offsets, we now expect that the settlement payment and the monthly defense costs in connection with these class action suits will result in a decrease in the net cash at closing from our original projection of $54.5 million t...

Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers

...with small electronics components," he says. "This is why the Department of defense and chip manufacturers such as Intel are working on optical solutions for o...ns." Research in this field in the United States is being funded by the defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and develop...

FluMist(R) Begins Shipping for 2009-2010 Influenza Season

...u' efforts are directed toward parents to help them understand the importance of annual influenza vaccination and reminds them not to wait to put up a defense against the flu, particularly with seasonal vaccine becoming available during the summer," said Peter Greenleaf, MedImmune's Senior Vice President, Co...

PTC Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of PTC299 in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2

...eding, hypertension and proteinuria were not observed. The Phase 2 clinical trial of PTC299 is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program. About PTC299 PTC 299 is a novel, orally administered small-molecule compound that inhibits the product...

NovaBay(R) Pharmaceuticals to Present at Jesup & Lamont 2009 Growth Stock Conference

...cide compounds are novel, proprietary, synthetic N -chlorinated antimicrobial molecules specifically developed by NovaBay to mimic the body's natural defense against infection. The Aganocide compounds maintain the biological activities while improving the stability of naturally occurring N -chlorinated ant...

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Announces Closing of Private Placement Financing Agreement

... Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. is dedicated to commercializing innovative pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the field of oxygen therapeutics and defense Medicine(TM). The company has under development a perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier and liquid ventilation product (Oxycyte(R)) and has...

Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

...d to develop an internationally recognized research program," Clifton said. Zia joins 40 young scientists nationwide nominated by the Department of defense and chosen as winners in the PECASE competition. (Various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, nominate 100 candidates.) Each winner...

Novel handheld device detects anthrax with outstanding accuracy and reliability

...ould help fuel its wider use among such first responders as fire and police departments, HazMat teams, postal services, port and airport security, and defense and military authorities." John Delaney is Captain, Arlington County, Virginia Fire Department and Manager, National Medical Response Team-National...

Independent U.S. Study Confirms Veritide's Ceeker(TM) Handheld Device Detects Anthrax With Outstanding Accuracy and Reliability

...ould help fuel its wider use among such first responders as fire and police departments, HazMat teams, postal services, port and airport security, and defense and military authorities." John Delaney is Captain, Arlington County, Virginia Fire Department and Manager, National Medical Response Team-Nation...