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Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Rashid Zia, assistant professor of engineering, has been named one of this year's winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The White House named the latest group of winners this week. The PECASE award recognizes outstand...

PhRMA Statement on AARP-White House Press Conference

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President & CEO Billy Tauzin today issued the following statement regarding today's AARP-White House press conference on health care reform: "With the strong support of AARP, we...

MichBio Leader Cites New Senate Biosciences Task Force and House Subcommittee as Evidence of State's Growing Awareness of Industry's Economic Importance

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaking to a crowd of more than 170 bioscience leaders at the MichBio Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor Wednesday night, Stephen Rapundalo, Ph.D., MichBio president and CEO, said that a growing awareness by state legislators of the industry's economic ...

Crystal Research Associates, LLC Issues Executive Informational Overview(R) (EIO(R)) on The Medical House PLC

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Research Associates, LLC announced today that it has issued an Executive Informational Overview(R) (EIO(R)) on The Medical House PLC (LSE: MLH.L), based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The full 48-page report can be found at http://www.crystalra.com . ...

Air Transport Association Applauds House of Representatives on Decision to Withhold Biometric Collection Funding

Airlines Call on U.S. Senate to Take Similar Action WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, applauds the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee for taking actio...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich Featured Wednesday

Plenary Speaker at AdvaMed 2008 - Book signing to follow his presentation WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Healthcare policy, regulatory environment, elements of the global marketplace, and the role of financing are focus of the 2008 MedTech Conference. Wednesday panel presenta...

Insmed Partners With Bill Thomas, Former House Ways and Means Chairman, as Strategic Advisor

Thomas Will Focus on Strategies to Promote Legislative Pathway for Follow-On Biologics RICHMOND, Va., July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Insmed Inc. (Nasdaq: INSM), a developer of follow-on biologics and biopharmaceuticals for unmet medical needs, today announced tha...

Angiotech wins before the UK House of Lords

VANCOUVER, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANPI , TSX: ANP), a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company, announced that yesterday, the highest court of the United Kingdom, the House of Lords, confirmed in a precedent-setting decision...

Lilly's Connelly Appointed to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships

Program is the nation's most prestigious for leadership and public service WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Office of President George W. Bush today announced the appointment of Deirdre P. Connelly to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. Connelly is the presid...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Address Senate Special Committee on Aging, Calling for Urgent Action Against Alzheimer's Disease

The Alzheimer's Study Group Outlines a National Plan WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich presented testimony to a special hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee...

Microfluidic Systems to Show Automated Biological Agent Detection Technology to U.S. House of Representatives

FREMONT, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Microfluidic Systems (MFSI), along with its manufacturing partner, United Technology's Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, have been invited to attend the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security's Technology Fair on Detecting and Resp...

Insmed CEO Issues Statement on White House FY09 Budget and FDA Statements on Follow-On Biologics

RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Insmed Inc. (Nasdaq: INSM) CEO Geoffrey Allan issued the following statement today following the White House FY09 Budget and Food and Drug Administration statements on developing an approval pathway for follow-on biologics: "Insmed is very plea...

Caliper Life Sciences to Webcast Investor Session of Open House

HOPKINTON, Mass., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP ) today announced that it will hold a Customer and Investor Open House entitled, "Innovation for Experimentation" to be held June 17, 2009 at Caliper's Hopkinton headquarters. The company will webcast t...

CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

Middleton, WI Combining database and personalized print technology, a physicians group in the Midwest is making a new kind of house call to retain patients. Instead of waiting for patients to come to their offices for treatment, these physicians are sending personalized messages by mail with remin...

Esker adding mail house in Madison

Madison, Wis. - Esker Software , a provider of automated document delivery solutions headquartered in France, announced the opening of a new mail house at its U.S. headquarters in Madison, in response to quickly growing use of the Esker on Demand service. The new mail processing facility ex...

State faces revenue drop as federal Internet tax ban passes House

Starting November 1, 2006, Wisconsin will no longer be allowed to tax Internet usage, in a move that would open up savings for users but could put a hole in the state budget. The federal measure to eliminate the tax was authored by Representative James Sensenbrenner , R-Wis., who said home user...

Caliper Life Sciences Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

... per share in the second quarter of 2008. Attracted more than 350 customers to recent "Innovation for Experimentation" seminar series and open house events held in California and Massachusetts. Pro forma revenue and adjusted net loss per share are non-GAAP measures that exclude certai...

GPhA Calls Senate HELP Committee Action Disappointing for Countless Patients

...able biogenerics, we will continue to fight in the house to ensure that a true balance is achieved between ...h care system $734 billion in the last decade, the house must now act to ensure that additional savings can...usivity are needed to spark innovation. The White house already has the FDA working on creating a pathway ...

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

...d through scientific leadership, education or community outreach. The White house Office of Science and Technology Policy selects the awardees. Lau and the other PECASE winners will be presented with their awards at a White house ceremony in the fall of 2009. Individuals cannot apply for PECASE. A ha...

GPhA Says BIO Cries Wolf on Senate Biogenerics Proposal

...cause of their extremely robust intellectual property protection in this sector, 'no' to little market exclusivity is required. "Both the White house and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) also specifically stated that an unprecedented 12 to 14 years of market exclusivity would NOT achieve wh...

MEDS World, LLC Provides Multiple Environments with Designed Solutions - Wherever People Congregate, MEDS Odor Elimination Solutions Offer Eco-Friendly, Odor-Free Air

...S products offer "whole house" solutions to odor remediation for the hospitality industry. From check-in to check-out, from the front of the house to the back of the house, housekeeping and maintenance departments all benefit from the MEDS solutions to every day challenges. Law enforcement and E...

MasterControl and Datafarm Launch GxP2eCTD at the DIA 45th Annual Meeting

...ation Association (DIA) 45th Annual Meeting. The companies will jointly host a launch party to be held on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at Buster's Beach house at 807 West Harbor Drive (Seaport Village) in San Diego, CA. The venue is just a short walk from the San Diego Convention Center, the location of thi...

San Diego Wireless Heavyweight Leap Wireless Supports New Start-up Incubator

...starting companies dealing with communications and communications convergence such as wireless-life sciences and wireless smart grid. EvoNexus will house up to 10 start-up companies for up to 24 months in an "incubator" facility. Participating companies will be provided office space, access t...

CoreRx, Inc. Announces Plans for Expansions to Meet the Needs of Growing Pharmaceutical Formulation Development Business

...city and will accommodate projected growth through 2015. The 80,000 sq ft building will be remodeled and up-fitted and expanded to ultimately house current staff plus fifty-five new employees. The founders of CoreRx intend to locate the company headquarters at the site, as well as utilize the spac...

Senator Arlen Specter and Richard Gephardt Headline Policy Forum on U.S. Medical Innovation, Highlight Achieving 'Recovery Through Discovery'

... the forum, Richard Gephardt, former Democratic majority leader of the U.S. house of Representatives and a founder and the president of the Council, announce...iversity Bloomberg School of Public Health Dick Gephardt , Former house Majority Leader and President of the Council for American Medical Innovatio...

Speaker Pelosi, Call Your Science Advisor!

... WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently couldn't resist injecting divisive politics into her speech at the unveiling of a statue of President Ronald Reagan tod...

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

... PITTSBURGH, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mylan Inc.'s (Nasdaq: MYL ) Chief Operating Officer Heather Bresch today testified before the U.S. house of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy concerning patent litigation settlements between branded pharmaceutical com...

Biomedical Sciences Companies Expanding in Asia Invested More Than US$500 Million in Singapore

...on regional clinical coordination centre, while Quintiles doubled the size of its regional headquarters to an 80,000 square- foot facility, which will house its Central Laboratory and Clinical Development Services offices. Commercialising Homegrown Innovation On the home front, Singapore's b...

Obama Budget Level Funds Career Technical Education

... Increase needed to train workforce, stimulate economy ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the White house unveiled its Fiscal Year 2010 budget request, proposing level funding for the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (Perkins Act) at $1.3...

Sugarcane Ethanol Industry Eager to Implement U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

...The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) welcomed today's White house announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finally pu...nced Biofuel' under RFS guidelines," adds Jank. Last week, the White house completed its review of the EPA proposed rules to implement the new RFS and...

Solar cells, geological storage research receive DOE funding at the University of Texas at Austin

... of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The White house announced the creation of 46 new EFRCs nationally in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the Nation...

African Health Delegates Welcomed to Washington

...he African Union, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. With a new administration in the White house and a global economic crisis forcing a review of every U.S. funding commitment, decision-makers in Washington are looking for new ways and enhanced st...

China Breaks Ground on Largest Comprehensive Stem Cell Storage and Processing Facility

...) broke ground on the 20,000 square-meter Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine Industrial Project of National Bio-Industry Base (NBPD). This facility will house China's first comprehensive regenerative medicine technology center and its largest international stem cell bank. The NBPD facility is part of ...

Defeat Autism Now!(R) Regional Conference to be Held in Oklahoma June 13-14, 2009

...age 3, and the family began to see promising improvements in his condition when he began biomedical treatments with Dr. Bryan Jepson at The Thoughtful house Center for Children in Austin, Texas. Aaron's Bridge was created to facilitate access to more treatment options in Oklahoma for children with dev...

Council for American Medical Innovation Brings U.S. Leaders in Medicine, Biotechnology and Discovery Together in Chicago for 'Best and Brightest Forum on Medical Innovation'

...tion, and along with it the health of Americans and the economy. WHO: Moderated by : Richard Gephardt*, Former Majority Leader of the U.S. house of Representatives Featuring : David Brennan* , CEO of AstraZeneca Chris Coburn , Executive Director of Cleveland Clin...

American Geographical Society awards honor Henson, Smith on April 15 at UD

...ife he was awarded honorary degrees by Howard University and Morgan College, given lifetime membership in the Explorers Club, and honored at the White house by President Eisenhower. In 1951, he signed the AGS Fliers' and Explorers' Globe at a lavish ceremony in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Upon his de...

MIT virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

...es that can take the shape of their container. Last week, MIT President Susan Hockfield took the prototype battery to a press briefing at the White house where she and U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about the need for federal funding to advance new clean-energy technologies. Now that the researche...

Otonomy Introduces Scientific Advisory Board

...Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Friedman is the research section chief of hereditary ear disorders in the department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the house Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Friedman is currently Chief of Skull Base Surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and is actively caring for patients...

MMR and Dancing Paws to Participate in Joint Sales Effort to Provide Personal Health Records for Pets

...reathalicious to Keep 'First Puppy' Healthy and Kissably Sweet at the White house LOS ANGELES, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MMR Information System...pply of NPP products to the First Dog expected to be delivered at the White house in April. "Personal Health Records are a centerpiece of this nation's ...

Regional Biotech Association Warns Vermont Legislation Could Have Profound Negative Impact

... but in the entire nation. Senate Bill 48, an Act Relating to the Marketing of Prescribed Products, is the focus of a presentation today at the State house by Senate President Peter Shumlin. "The Legislation's radical expansion of Vermont's existing and strict biopharmaceutical marketing laws promise...