HER in Biological Technology

First ASMS Hites Award for Outstanding Research Publication Presented to Prof. Alison Ashcroft for Her Use of Waters Synapt HDMS System to Explore Protein Complexes

PHILADELPHIA, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT ) announced today that the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) presented Prof. Alison Ashcroft of the University of Leeds with the first Ron Hites Award for Outstanding Research Publication in the Journal of t...

Romanian Student Leverages Burrill Competition to Accomplish Her Dream

MADISON - The instant Anca Copaescu, then a second-year MBA in the University of Wisconsin's School of Business, heard about the 2001 G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition, she knew she wanted to enter. It wasn't just the prospect of winning $10,000 - though the money definitely go...

Romanian Student Leverages Burrill Competition to Accomplish Her Dream

Though she was convinced that the business plan competition was exactly the right vehicle for starting a real business, Copaescu still needed to come up with a real business idea for the competition. So, after registering her "team" in November of 2000, she began recruiting individuals who might br...

Romanian Student Leverages Burrill Competition to Accomplish Her Dream

Madison, Wis. - The instant Anca Copaescu, then a second-year MBA in the University of Wisconsin's School of Business, heard about the 2001 G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition, she knew she wanted to enter. It wasn't just the prospect of winning $10,000 - though the money definit...

Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy

...archers for decades. We believe that we finally have the knowledge and tools to turn this concept into a clinical reality." Dr Karen Newell and her team at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs have performed over 400 metabolic disruption technology experiments with a large panel of disru...

The Law Offices of Brian D. Witzer Wins 6+ Million Dollar Verdict

...sician and registered pharmacist, prescribed it to her for gout. Plaintiff disputed the diagnosis and al...at she told him she had gout and described pain in her toe consistent with gout. He prescribed Allopurin...e disease, the Plaintiff now depends on others for her activities of daily living. Stevens-Johns...

Oncothyreon appoints Diana Hausman as Vice President of Clinical Development

...ngs an extensive background in drug development to her new role at Oncothyreon," said Robert L. Kirkman, ...pha, into Phase 2 trials. We are delighted to have her join our team." "I am very pleased to join Oncot...ttle from 2002 until 2005. Dr. Hausman will assume her new role at Oncothyreon on September 1, 2009. ...

W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to Hutchinson Center Scholar to Study How Cells Go Awry

...vision, studies social interactions between cells. her lab set up an artificial system in which two sets ...tible with mathematical modeling. Shou and her colleagues are now investigating what happens whe...ing cooperation among cells. Shou completed her postdoctoral work in quantitative biology at the R...

Video: New Way RA(TM) Talk Show Premieres Online for People Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

... recognized chronic illness career coach , shares her experience with living and working with two chroni... RA at the age of 28, did not let the disease stop her from becoming a certified fitness instructor. Ellen shares her personal story and demonstrates several RA-friendl...

First U.K. Stem Cell Awareness Rally to Take Place in Manchester, England on August 9th, 2009

...) in China. She was born blind but began to regain her vision just weeks into her stem cell treatment. her parents have been passionate stem cell advocates e...

Digitas Health Expands Adding Two Key Locations

...ital business director for the London office of Ogilvy Healthworld, She brings more than a decade of pharmaceutical interactive marketing to the role. her rich career has included work in integrated communications, public relations and journalism, and she has led marketing efforts for many of the world's...

UCR scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics

...ice without an external magnet." Lau, an associate professor of physics and a member of UCR's Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering , and her colleagues examined the ripples' morphology using a scanning electron microscope and an atomic force microscope. They found that almost all the graph...

Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them

...e evoked with other stimulus modalities, for instance by hearing or reading her name. Brain imaging studies have identified cortical areas in the human tem...ple a neuron responded to three pictures of the TV host "Oprah Winfrey", to her name written in the computer screen and to a computer synthesized voice say...

Free Webinar on Safer Clinical Hand-Offs Offered by Compirion Healthcare

...ings to the 90th percentile. Jefferies has over 14 years of experience providing and directing quality, patient-centered care in hospitals. her background covers ICU, trauma and ER nursing. Prior to joining Compirion Healthcare as a Clinical Consultant, Jefferies was Clinical Nurse Director an...

Junying Yu, Leading Stem Cell Researcher, Joins Cellular Dynamics International

... Junying Yu , Ph.D., as senior research fellow. her significant body of published research has shown her to be one of the leading stem cell researchers in ...e top stem cell researchers in the world, and with her on our team we feel confident that we will be able...

Looking Older Than You Are May Have Little to Do With Wrinkles

...ulptra trainer Dr. Rebecca Fitzgerald, known among her medical colleagues as the "Sculptra guru" here in the U.S., presented her findings on Facial Volume Restoration to an intern...ly 22, 2009 -- Dr. Rebecca Fitzgerald, known among her medical colleagues as the Sculptra "guru&quo...

Double Helix Strengthens its Strategic Pricing and Reimbursement Practice with Hire of Caryn Zieses

...ss, pricing and reimbursement capabilities through her vast experience in planning and implementing produ...elopment and launch strategies for the US market. her intimate knowledge of managed care market structur...titudes, forecasting, and commercial assessments. her expertise in US payer trends spans both public and...

NeoStem, Inc. Appoints Leading Chinese Medical Official to Its Advisory Board

...e Medical Affairs of Shandong province, and during her tenure the number of Chinese medicine hospitals in...and Russia. She has been extensively published in her field and is well regarded for her work in the research and development of new drugs,...

Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease

...re familial form of the disease. Dr. Lindquist and her team previously showed that when yeast cells are e...they die. In their new study, Dr. Lindquist and her team tested whether yeast could make cyclic peptid...new therapies," says Dr. Lindquist. She notes that her lab and others have modeled many human diseases in...

Xanodyne Announces New Executive Team Members

...s President Americas at Cegedim Dendrite, a global sales and marketing solutions and information company specializing in the pharmaceutical industry. her depth of experience includes senior leadership positions in general management, marketing, compliance, and sales at major pharmaceutical companies inc...

UCR physicist receives highest honor US government gives young scientists or engineers

...received a CAREER award from NSF in 2008, enabling her to experimentally investigate the electrical prope...phene, Lau studies nanowires and carbon nanotubes. her research has helped physicists gain fundamental un...s behave when they are ruled by quantum mechanics. her lab studies novel electrical properties that arise...

Mirixa Corporation Announces Key New Hires

...ds including the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy (CCGP) Excellence in Geriatric Pharmacy Practice Award. Kim Swiger will focus her years of clinical experience on developing programs for, and on behalf of, the schools of pharmacy and state pharmacy associations. Prior to joining ...

Unisense FertiliTech A/S Receives CE Mark of Approval for EmbryoScope(TM) Embryo Monitoring System

...y potentially new parameters for embryo analysis. Mette Munch, Director of regulatory affairs at Unisense FertiliTech A/S says she will now set her goal on FDA 510K clearance in order to facilitate marketing to clinics in the United States. The Announcement of the CE mark coincided with the...

Biocept, Inc. Announces Two New Director Appointments

...ity Pacific Financial Services and Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for Bank of America's National Consumer Banking Group. She earned her Masters Degrees in International Relations and Business Administration from the University of Southern California and an Undergraduate Degree from ...

First step to converting solar energy using 'artificial leaf'

...heir research findings in the online Early Edition of the PNAS journal in the week starting 29 June. Leiden researcher Swapna Ganapathy has obtained her PhD based on this subject, under the supervision of Professor Huub de Groot, one of the initiators of the research. Forests at nano scale They...

Qforma Appoints Four Executives in Sales and Field Operations

...ent in addition to experience as the chief operating officer for a large regional commercial property and asset management firm. Kim Foster began her career in the pharmaceutical data industry at NDC Health (now Wolters Kluwer Health), where she held a series of positions of increasing responsibilit...

Sundia and 2 Other CRO Companies Granted Express Customs Clearance Privilege in Shanghai

...epresentatives from many biopharmaceutical companies. Ms. Liu Zhengyi, Deputy Director of the Pudong District Government was at the ceremony to extend her congratulations. Mr. Ma Yan, Director of Pudong Customs, Mr. Shi Wenyan, Director of Pudong International Airport Customs, and Mr. Liu Xiaolong, Execu...

Fruit fly steps in to fight human disease

...d a closed chapter in the biology textbooks. No one had suspected the relationship with specific variants of CMT until the revelation by Jordanova and her colleagues. These VIB findings open up an entirely new field of research. Fruit flies with CMT symptoms The VIB researchers at the University of...

Amgen to Participate in Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting in August

...ne ablation for either prostate or breast cancer. "In the U.S., one woman in two over the age of 50 will experience an osteoporotic fracture in her remaining lifetime. Although osteoporosis treatments are available, there remains a need for other options that deliver robust efficacy and support ad...

'Designer molecules' being developed to fight disease

...ein molecules to prevent uptake of toxins in crops or protein molecules for detection of environmental pollutants. Shikha Sharma will be presenting her research at the Festival of Postgraduate Research which is taking place on Thursday 25th June in the Belvoir Suite, Charles Wilson Building, Universit...

Colorado Stem Cell Awareness Rally to Take Place in Denver, Colorado on June 13th, 2009

...out the association's mission and what it meant to her to see her sixteen-year-old daughter, Macie, get her driver's permit after returning from treatment in ...

Nektar Therapeutics Promotes Lorianne Masuoka, M.D. to Chief Medical Officer

...e and superb guidance of our clinical development and operations teams make her an outstanding choice for Chief Medical Officer," said Randall Moreadith, M...clerosis as well as numerous oncology programs. Dr. Masuoka received her M.D. from the University of California, Davis , completed a Fellowship at ...

Buehler Motor, Inc., Significantly Expands Customer and Partner Support in North America

...e, an international manufacturer of wireless communications technology, where she was director of operations, and sales and marketing manager. During her two years with the Copenhagen-based company, she built an extensive U.S. dealer network and generated more than $13 million in sales. Prior to that, ...

Scripps Research Institute Highlights Groundbreaking Work of aTyr Pharma Scientific Co-Founder

...ng's latest study (Chemistry & Biology, vol. 16, pp. 531-539) builds on her previous revolutionary research with an essential enzyme of protein synthes...f proteins with therapeutic potential. The work done by Professor Yang and her group has contributed immensely to our understanding of how the genes encod...

New MIT radio chip mimics human ear

...ion are paramount," he said. Nevertheless, "We can mine the intellectual resources of nature to create devices useful to humans, just as we have mined her physical resources in the past. ...

Ratcliff Promotes Jorge Burbano to Senior Associate; Tess Kavanagh and Tony Keung to Associate

...on the Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. She earned her master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley , and her bachelor's degree in environmental design from the University of Californi...

Speaker Pelosi, Call Your Science Advisor!

...y couldn't resist injecting divisive politics into her speech at the unveiling of a statue of President R...Capital Hill. And in doing so, Speaker Pelosi got her facts all wrong, misleading people again, this time with her statements on stem cells. (Logo: http://...

Mylan Again Calls for an End to Authorized Generics During 180-Day Exclusivity Period

... and Competition Policy concerning patent litigation settlements between branded pharmaceutical companies and generic pharmaceutical companies. During her testimony, Bresch conveyed Mylan's position that the launch of an authorized generic by brand companies during a generic company's 180-day exclusivity...

Valeritas Announces Appointment of New CEO

...er. Peterson brings 26 years of industry experience to Valeritas, with her most recent successes as Company Group Chair of Johnson & Johnson's Bio...assion for patients and their challenges. This exceptional skill set makes her the ideal leader to take Valeritas to the next level as a fully operational...

Zeus to Present at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago

...ology. When Dr. Naomi Nakao, a prolific inventor of 20 years extended her invitation to Zeus to speak at the conference, she prefaced her invitation as follows: "Being an inventor can be a lonely journey, but Zeus...