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Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Rod McKinley (U.S. Air Force Retired) Joins MicroTech as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

McKinley Only 15th Chief Master Sergeant in Air Force History Appointed to Highest Noncommissioned Officer Position VIENNA, Va., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MicroTech announced today that Retired Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (CMSAF) Rod McKinley has joined the company as Mi...

Exciton Technologies receives FDA approval to market exSALT(TM)

...ilizing silver oxysalts as the active ingredient. "This achievement represents a significant team effort and a strong belief in our product," stated rod Precht, Exciton's President and Chief Executive Officer. "To date, our technologies have demonstrated superior attributes over other leading silver te...

Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

...of his Laboratory for Subwavelength Optics. "Most light is emitted by electrical dipole transitions. We're looking at magnetic dipole transitions." rod Clifton, acting dean of engineering, praised Zia's selection as a PECASE recipient. "We are very excited about Rashid receiving both of this year's tw...

Qforma Appoints Four Executives in Sales and Field Operations

... from Director, Field Operations to Vice President, Sales and Services; and rod Anaforian and Kim Foster join Qforma as Directors, Field Operations. T...tries, enhanced by several years in the health care financing sector. rod Anaforian joins Qforma following a diverse 25-year career in pharmaceutical...

Results From Neurotech's NT-501 Phase 2 Retinitis Pigmentosa Studies Demonstrate Consistent Biological Effect on Photoreceptors

...s a slowly developing condition that causes the progressive degeneration of rod & cone photoreceptor cells in the retina that over time diminishes nigh... Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited disease that causes the retina's rod and cone photoreceptors to gradually degenerate leading to loss of vision a...

Call for papers for Pira International's Global Crop Protection Summit 2009

...on the most pressing issues facing the industry. The conference will be chaired by Rocky Rowe of the European Crop Protection Association and Dr. rod Parker of AIS Global. The current program includes presentations from Allier Brasil, CropLife International, ChemSpec Latin America, and the Crop Prot...

SAFC Biosciences(TM) Completes Conversion of Lenexa Media Milling Facility to Animal Component Free

...anding our biopharmaceutical client's requirements and providing them with appropriate solutions to fit those needs," said SAFC Biosciences President, rod Kelley. "Conversion of this facility is part of our Company's continuing strategy to offer expertise and appropriate manufacturing processes that are...

Nanotubes find niche in electric switches

...hese properties, the researchers decided to test nanotubes as brush contacts. Brush contacts are conducting pads held against a spinning metal disc or rod by spring-loaded arms. Current is passed from the spinning disc through the brush contacts to other parts of the device. To test the feasibility of...

Discovery of a new retinal gene involved in childhood blindness

...nstitutions." A careful assessment of patients with some specific genetic types of LCA also demonstrated that their retinal cells (specifically the rod and cone photoreceptors), although not functional for vision, were still present and in relatively good condition. This critical observation will allo...

US District Court Enters Final Judgment in Favor of Smith & Nephew; Permanent Injunction Prohibits Arthrex Inc. From Selling Infringing Medical Devices

...s that violate our rights." Editors note: The disputed patent covers use of Smith & Nephew's BIORAPTOR(TM), TAG(TM) WEDGE, and TAG rod suture anchors, which are designed to help repair instability in the shoulder as well as other soft tissue tears. The Arthrex products that were found...

District Court Sides with Smith & Nephew; Rules that It will Issue Injunction that will Prohibit Arthrex Inc. from Selling Infringing Medical Devices

...stay the injunction pending Arthrex's appeal Editors note: The disputed patent covers use of Smith & Nephew's BIORAPTOR, TAG(TM) WEDGE, and TAG rod suture anchors, which are designed to help repair instability in the shoulder as well as other soft tissue tears. The Arthrex products that were found...

CPC of America Announces Agreement with BC Tech for Manufacture of MedClose(TM) Vascular Closure System

...ludes clients such as Artemis, SurgRx(TM) and Aceuity. "This agreement with BC Tech is a critical step toward bringing MedClose(TM) to market," said rod Shipman, chairman and chief executive officer of CPC of America. "We look forward to working with BC Tech to leverage its experience in the successful...

Neurotech Announces the Opening of Its GMP Manufacturing Facility in Cumberland, Rhode Island

...uity is the primary efficacy endpoint of this study. About the Diseases Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited disease that causes the retina's rod and cone photoreceptors to gradually degenerate leading to loss of vision and blindness. The symptoms of RP predominately appear in young adults and a...

Upcoming 'Energy Psychology' Event in Chapel Hill Will Provide Training in New Breakthrough 'Do It Yourself' Healing

...ld, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), explains the underlying principle of EP by quoting Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry 1993) rod MacKinnon, a biophysicist at Rockefeller University, "All of life is electrical." Explains Gruder, "Just as we have a circulatory system, a nervous sy...

Upcoming 'Energy Psychology' Event - New Breakthrough 'Do It Yourself' Healing

...ld, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), explains the underlying principle of EP by quoting Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry 1993) rod MacKinnon, a biophysicist at Rockefeller University, "All of life is electrical." Explains Gruder, "Just as we have a circulatory system, a nervous sy...

CPC of America, Inc. to Explore Strategic Alternatives; Appoints FTI Capital Advisors to Assess Potential Opportunities

...s pharmaceutical and medical device entities ranging from global leaders to emerging, development-stage companies. CPC of America's Chairman and CEO rod A. Shipman notes, "CPC expects to benefit greatly from the counsel and support of FTI's consulting services in seeking to explore strategic alternativ...

New graphene-based material clarifies graphite oxide chemistry

...s of a "chickenwire" (or honeycomb) bonding arrangement of carbon atoms also known as a single layer of graphite. Mechanical Engineering Professor rod Ruoff and his co-authors have, for the first time, prepared carbon-13 labeled graphite. They did this by first making graphite that had every "normal"...

Pharmatek Announces Official Opening of New Highly-Potent & Cytotoxic Development and Manufacturing Facility

...ults to differ from those projected including sales forecasts and strategic expansion. The trademarks Pharmatek, Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc., Hot rod Chemistry and Pharmatek Formulation Screening are all property of Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc. Additional information about Pharmatek Laboratories...

New carbon material shows promise of storing large quantities of renewable electrical energy

...can be rapidly stored on the graphene sheets, and released from them as well for the delivery of electrical current and, thus, electrical power," says rod Ruoff, a mechanical engineering professor and a physical chemist. "There are reasons to think that the ability to store electrical charge can be about...

Molecular hula hoop

... second, ring-shaped molecule like a cuff while a stopper at the end of the rod prevents the ring from coming off. The researchers attached one end of the rod to a glass support. To observe the rotational motions of the cuff around th...

Scient'x Re-Acquires Isobar License

...d today that it has repurchased the Isobar dynamic rod license from Alphatec Spine, Inc. thus making Scie...mate exclusive holder of the of the Isobar dynamic rod intellectual property globally. With Isobar, Scien...market in the spinal implant industry with dynamic rod technologies. With over 10,000 implants worldwide ...

Holly Smith Joins Profect as Director of Clinical Imaging Services

...cently from the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where she was Chief Medical Photographer for Drs. rod Rohrich and Jeffrey Kenkel. "Profect(TM) has quickly built a reputation for innovation and customer service in the clinical photography business," Smi...

New filter clears up fiber optic communications

...tain wavelengths. The add-drop filter created by the Ames Laboratory team contains an entrance waveguide and an exit waveguide created by removing rod segments from the layered photonic crystal. A one-rod segment separates the two waveguides. (A waveguide is a system or material that can confine a...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/December 10, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, December 3).

...s zeal. http://www.newsweek.com/id/73362 IRAQ: "The Sunni Civil War" (p. 36). Baghdad Correspondent Larry Kaplow and Chief Foreign Correspondent rod Nordland report that divisions are growing within the Sunni community-between the new tribal levies and old politicians, Baathists and anti-Baathists,...

Jerusalem Global Ventures Announces $200 Million Growth Equity Fund

...nt banks that would like to establish a strategic relationship in order to help prepare our portfolio companies for an IPO. The Fund is the connecting rod in the middle, using the manager's network and expertise to source and invest in quality deals." Dr. Kalish added, "There are some interesting thing...

Beanstalk Capital Ltd. and iCo Therapeutics Inc. amend arrangement agreement

... in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release. CONTACT: rod Shier, Chief Financial Officer, Beanstalk Capital Ltd., Telephone: (604) 682-2992 Ext. 222; John Meekison, Chief Financial Officer, iCo Therapeutics I...

Pharmatek Adds Cytotoxic and High-Potent Drug Development Capabilities to San Diego Laboratory

... results to differ from those projected including sales forecasts and strategic expansion. The trademarks Pharmatek, Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc., Hot rod Chemistry and Pharmatek Formulation Screening are all property of Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc. Additional information about Pharmatek Laboratories may...

Third Wave strikes deal with Kaiser Permanente on cystic fibrosis reagents

... Kaiser Permanente , the largest non-profit health plan in the United States, to supply the new reagents. They will be an important customer, said rod Hise, director, corporate communications of Third Wave. The agreement is important because their selection of our technology is a validation of our te...

Digitizing hospitals with the right tools

...iple roadblocks to successful implementation. "I think it's critical to focus on the fact that technology for technology's sake is a problem," said rod Dykehouse, vice president of information technology at Froedert Hospital . "You need to think about where you've been and where you want to be in rel...

Doyle announces biobased energy consortium

...higher now and that we can't take it for granted and that the oil economy will at some point start to diminish." Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture rod Nilsestuen said Wisconsin has multiple strengths in the area, including a diverse agricultural base and scientific research at UW and within the priva...

Illinois stem cell funding could aid issue's visibility

...f Wisconsin's neighbors has reaffirmed its support for stem cell research - support that could bolster similar research in Wisconsin. Illinois Gov. rod Blagojevich last week announced that Illinois would devote $10 million in state funds to support stem cell research. The announcement makes Illinois t...

Third Wave appoints new chairman

... "The company for three years has been transitioning from a research tools company to a molecular diagnostics company," explained company spokesman rod Hise. "And as part of that transition there have been transitions on the management team and at the board as the company has become more commercially ...

Biodiesel plant being built in DeForest to make alternative fuel

... of these opportunities are going to come forward in the next several years and I think, just keep an open mind. Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture rod Nilsestuen was on hand for the groundbreaking, and later told WTN of the importance of developing renewable energy sources for the states economy. ...

Wisconsins promising bio-refining future wont run on ethanol alone

...d its my hope Wisconsins research base can help us leap-frog technologies into the future," state Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary rod Nilsestuen said during a recent meeting of the Wisconsin Technology Council. The state Ag Department is directing the Consortium on Bio-based Indu...

As BIO shows mass of competition, hunt for partners is on

...g up, and called out ethanol production, among other specialties, as a critical component of tomorrow's biotech. Wisconsin's Agriculture secretary, rod Nilsestuen, said the state will need to look out around itself to capitalize on the great potential of the Midwest in ethanol and other agriculture-ba...

A brief timeline of the stem cell debate

...ding for adult and embryonic stem-cell research over the next 10 years. July 13, 2005: Bypassing the Illinois state legislature, Democratic Gov. rod Blagojevich creates a stem-cell research institute by executive order. The institute will be funded through a line item in the state budget that gives...

Joint Finance blocks Doyle ethanol measure

...mers a fuel that is 85 percent ethanol. Doyle has made development of the state's ethanol industry a central part of his Biofuels Initiative , and rod Nilsestuen, his secretary of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer, Protection , expressed disappointment that lawmakers seemed disinterested in advancing...

State grant explores bio-diesel potential

...xtracting raw meal for bio-diesel fuel will be the subject of an investigation funded by $60,000 from the State of Wisconsin. Agriculture Secretary rod Nilsestuen handed an agricultural business in Dane County the grant to explore a project that could unlock the energy in soybean, sunflower, and canol...

Chippewa Valley firms land more defense work

...udgets to accommodate the high-tech devices, Guelzow said. RSI's hazard zone beacons will replace outdated devices - basically a lead weight with a rod - with an expandable marker with infrared lights and a global positioning relay. Ideally, the devices would create more visible clear zones around ...

Healthcare of business: Universal coverage plan includes new business taxes

... discuss - albeit only briefly in this short space - the healthcare of business. Following the lead of California and Massachusetts, Illinois Gov. rod Blagojevich has called health insurance a fundamental civil right and announced on Sunday an ambitious new plan called IllinoisCovered to cover the e...