Experience in Biological Technology

NeoStem, Inc. Appoints Financial Expert with Broad International Experience to the Board of Directors and to Serve as Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee

NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, announced today it has appointed to its Board of Directors Drew Bernstein, CPA and Managing Partner of ...

Brain research shows past experience is invaluable for complex decision making

Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have shown that past experience really does help when we have to make complex decisions based on uncertain or confusing information. They show that learning from experience actually changes the circuitry in ou...

Patient Experience Expert to Present 'The Power of Wow!' in Health Care Service Delivery

SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- As hospital leaders prepare for the public release of patient experience data as mandated by Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( http://www.cms.hhs.gov ) ; patient experience improvement expert Mary P. Malone is offering insights about how to i...

Biotech Crops Experience Remarkable Dozen Years of Double-Digit Growth

Socio-economic benefits becoming evident among resource-poor farmers MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- After a dozen years of commercialization, biotech crops are still gaining ground with another year of double-digit growth and new countries joining the list of supporters, accord...

Pilot Therapeutics Announces New Executive Team with Extensive Experience Creating New Health and Nutrition Businesses

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Therapeutics Inc., a Nutritional Therapeutics Innovation Company, today announced the appointment of Ross Consaul as CEO and Keith Wakeman as President. "Pilot has always had promising technology and patents in the food, medical food and diet...

Astellas Pharma US, Inc. and The International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) Collaborate on Content for Transplant Experience Program

Educational program offers unique resources to empower transplant patients and their caregivers DEERFIELD, Ill., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALPMF), a leader in the field of transplantation, and The International Transplant N...

TeleHealth Services and Lakeland HealthCare Connect to Create Outstanding Patient Experience

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., and RALEIGH, N.C., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of healthcare grade televisions and communications solutions to hospitals, today announced that it has been selected by Lakeland HealthCare as part of the health system's strategy to...

Neurosurgery Journal Issues Supplement Dedicated to CyberKnife Radiosurgery Experience

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY ), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, has issued a peer-reviewed supplement dedicated to CyberK...

Varian, Inc. Announces Online Experience

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) has announced that it will host a unique online event involving the breadth and depth of its solutions for analytical and research applications as an alternative to participating as a booth exhibitor at Pittcon(...

Phlo Affiliate Hires Chief Marketing Officer With Extensive Global Experience

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An affiliate of Phlo Corporation (OTC: PHLC) (the "Company") announced today that it has hired as its Chief Marketing Officer Rudy Prajza, who has extensive worldwide expertise directing the marketing and communications programs of major int...

Interview: WTN Gets Real with Appletons Brad Hansen - Dot-Com Experience helps Executive to Spot Trends

Brad Hansen joined Green Bays Nsight Telservices (www.nsighttel.com) in 2001 as Vice President and COO of Fixed Operations after an action-packed stint as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Chicago startup BidBuyBuild. Hansen oversees Northeast Telephone, Nsight Long Distance, Local Nsight, NET Cabl...

Psychologist - technology entrepreneurs frequently experience hypomania

What, are you crazy? Theres a question that every technology entrepreneur has heard at least once. Its asked by spouses, families, friends, employees, customers and, yes, investors. When youre operating on technologys bleeding edges and trying to introduce that new-to-the-world and must-have t...

With flawed schools exposed, real-world experience is needed

What kind of school systems are our taxes supporting? This question becomes very critical given the fact that jobs are being outsourced to other countries by the thousands and many leaders of public schools have lost touch with whats important. Educators better get with the program and start tea...

VC Contest Winners Learn from Experience

Madison, Wis. -- Pulling an all-nighter has never been so profitable for a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School students who won a venture capital (VC) competition Saturday. Chris Lang, Gail McGuire and Paul Pucci, all MBA students, secured the win from a panel of real-world ve...

Northwoods Software co-owner distills 30 years of business experience

Early in his management career, Bob Weisenberg read a lot of books on management and leadership. One day, when he was about one-third of the way through yet another book, he realized he had read it before. Now retired after a 30-year career in the software industry, Weisenberg says the way to ex...

Novavax Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...hange over time. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or historical experience include risks and uncertainties, including the Company's ability to progress any product candidates in preclinical or clinical trials; the scope, rate...

EGEN, Inc. Announces the Promotion of Jason Fewell, Ph.D., to Vice-President of Preclinical Research and Development

...acology to Vice-President of Preclinical Research and Development. Dr. Fewell possesses more than 10 years management and scientific leadership experience in the biotechnology industry and has served at EGEN since 2003 as Director of Biology and Pharmacology. During his tenure at EGEN he has helped lead...

Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy

...or 20 years and for the last 15 years has focused exclusively on bringing new cancer therapies to the clinic. We believe that he has the knowledge and experience to take this program forward. Creating a new corporation dedicated to that effort is critical to give this science the attention it deserves. At the s...

GenVec Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...ange over time. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or historical experience include risks and uncertainties, including the failure by GenVec to secure and maintain relationships with collaborators; risks relating t o certai...

Novavax Announces Appointment of Frederick W. Driscoll as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

...ping into his many years of biotechnology industry experience as we expand our vaccine development programs, man...is a seasoned and talented executive with valuable experience in financial management, corporate strategy and fu... and investor relations. Fred has had considerable experience as a public company CFO and has raised significant...

Microfluidics International Corporation to Report Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on August 11, 2009

...armaceutical, chemical, cosmetics and ink jet ink industries. Microfluidics International Corporation applies its 20 years of high pressure processing experience to produce the most uniform and smallest liquid and suspended solid particles available, and has provided manufacturing systems for nanoparticle produ...

InterMune Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Highlights

... Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. McGrath has nearly 30 years of experience in the industry, having held leadership positions in sales, marketing and b...of the highest areas of interest to the company based on the prior clinical experience with pirfenidone in IPF patients. Pirfenidone failed to achieve statistica...

SEQUENOM Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Highlights

...nical operations. Ms. Keller brings more than 25 years of clinical research experience across a broad range of therapeutic areas and diagnostic and treatment modalities. She has significant prior experience in all facets of clinical development working with biotech and pharmaceutic...

Ratcliff Adds Architect John Sealander to Healthcare Practice Group

...h + Science Committee, which he chaired from 2004-2006 and now chairs again. "I am impressed with the depth of planning, programming and design experience the Ratcliff team possesses. Our firm is just the right size to undertake any healthcare project, from major new hospital construction to modest renov...

Curis and Debiopharm Sign an Exclusive License Agreement Covering the HSP90 Inhibitor CUDC-305

...including, among other things: - Curis may experience adverse results, delays and/or failures in i...ancer programs. - Genentech and Debiopharm may experience adverse results, delays and/or failures in t... clinical trials as planned. - Curis may experience difficulties or delays in obtaining or maint...

China Sky One Medical, Inc. Appoints New Independent Director

... to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Mr. Wei Lee has over 15 years of experience in financial services and government relations, including investments, join... his expertise in corporate governance at public companies in China and his experience in investments and management consulting will play a vital role in our deve...

Interleukin Genetics Announces Conference Call To Discuss Second Quarter 2009 Results

...panies in the development and marketing of targeted therapeutics. The Company leverages its research, intellectual property, and biomarker development experience to facilitate the emerging personalized health market. Interleukin Genetics is headquartered in Waltham, MA. For more information please visit www....

iCardiac Expands Sales and Marketing Team

... Adds Industry Veteran with Over Two Decades of Cardiovascular Core Lab experience Rochester, NY (PRWEB) August 6, 2009 -- iCardia...Senior Director of Business Development. Ms. Boyle has over two decades of experience in operations and business development in the clinical research industry, s...

The Breast Cancer Therapeutics Market in Australia

...practice models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from 31 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Par...

PDI Reports 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results

...s on a trajectory toward profitability as we strategically align the business units to be profitable while adding new, high quality personnel with the experience and drive to build our business. "Notably, during the quarter we announced four key new business wins expected to exceed $18 million in revenue...

Amicus Therapeutics Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... trials. The companies then share responsibility for Phase 3 clinical trial development leveraging Shire's significant ex-U.S. regulatory and clinical experience as well as its commercial infrastructure. Additional Financial Results & Notes On a reported basis, the net loss attributable to c...

ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Announces Financing

... fail to perform as expected; the risk that ADVENTRX's significantly reduced workforce and leadership by officers who do not have substantial previous experience in executive leadership roles will negatively impact its ability to raise capital or maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures or internal...

Omeros Appoints New Vice President of Clinical Development

...02 in a Phase 2 program for use in cataract surgery, and OMS201 in a Phase 1/2 program for use in uroendoscopy. "Dr. Murray brings a wealth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having successfully directed a number of development programs in both large and small pharmaceutical companies," said ...

Microbia Names John McCarthy to Senior Management Team

...ts a tremendous market opportunity for the company, its customers and our environment." John McCarthy brings 17 years of executive management experience to Microbia from the broad healthcare and alternative energy industries, including having led three IPOs, numerous corporate partnerships, and the rai...

Patent Attorney John Rizvi Speaks at FIME International Medical Expo

...claims that are too narrow in scope. This can allow a competitor to "design around" a patented product. John Rizvi has over 14 years of experience focused exclusively on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent and trademark applications, patent and trademark validity and ...

Nile Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Dosing of First Patient in Phase 2 Study of CD-NP for the Treatment of Acute Heart Failure

... to fund its product development programs to completion, Nile's reliance on third-party researchers to develop its product candidates, and its lack of experience in developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products. Additional risks are described in greater detail in the reports Nile files with Securities ...

Webcast of QIAGEN N.V.'s (Nasdaq: QGEN) Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results Call Set for August 11

...r/index.html , or The Windows Media Player, downloadable free from www.microsoft.com and at least a 14.4Kbps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the broadcast, send an email to prnwebcast@multivu.com .) ...

Oncothyreon appoints Diana Hausman as Vice President of Clinical Development

...uct candidates. These forward-looking statements represent Oncothyreon's intentions, plans, expectations and beliefs and are based on its management's experience and assessment of historical and future trends and the application of key assumptions relating to future events and circumstances. Forward-looking s...

Sanofi-aventis U.S. Introduces BenzaClin(R) Carekit

... to the skin and include dry skin, itching, peeling, redness and sunburn. Also, clindamycin, an ingredient in BenzaClin(R), may cause diarrhea. If you experience severe diarrhea, stop using BenzaClin(R) and call your doctor immediately. You should not use BenzaClin(R) if you are allergic to clindamycin, benzoyl...

ETC Biomedical Announces Chamber Sale in India

...The chamber was sold through ETC's local distributor, Hospimedica International Pvt. Ltd. Hospimedica International Pvt. Ltd. has over 20 years experience in the field of medical equipment. Hospimedica is one of India's top suppliers of medical equipment, representing a long list of world-class medical e...