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bwin and Harvard Medical School Faculty Sign 5-Year Research Cooperation Agreement

VIENNA, Austria, December 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- bwin, the world's leading online gaming company, and the Division on Addictions at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Affiliate, have just signed an agreement for research collaboration for five years. The researc...

NOVAVAX and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Announce Preclinical Study Results for a Respiratory Syncytial Virus ('RSV') Vaccine Candidate

ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX ) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced results from a preclinical study of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus ("RSV") vaccine candidate. Novavax has licensed exclusive worldwide rights from the Un...

Update: Georgia and North Carolina Teens Honored for Research in Biochemistry and Genetics in Nation's Premier High School Science Competition

ATLANTA, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Research projects in Biochemistry and Genetics boasted top marks this evening for James Meixiong and the team of Sajith Wickramasekara and Andrew Guo in the Region Six Finals of the 2008 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, the nation's premier hi...

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

LEXINGTON, Mass., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that it has shipped its new RDT 1000 instrument and Sequence Enrichment application to The Genome Center (GC) at t...

[video] Ronald Andrews, CEO of Clarient, Inc. Discusses Agreement With University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on WallSt.net's 3-Minute Press Show

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Clarient, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLRT ), a premier anatomic pathology and molecular testing services resource for pathologists, oncologists and the pharmaceutical industry, today announced that the company's CEO, Ronald Andrews, is featured in an e...

New Safe Lifting Patient Safety Resource for Nursing School Educators and Students

FRANKLIN, Mass., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Liko North America has announced the launch of a new "Nursing School" section of its popular Safe Lifting Portal Web site. The new portal section is designed to assist nursing school educators in developing curricula and Safe Lifting Practices as well ...

British School Kids With Diabetes Gain First Time Freedom From Injections With New Insulin Pump Guidelines

BURGESS HILL, England, September 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With some 20,000 UK children with Type 1 diabetes(i) about to start the new school year, new guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) looks set to revolutionise the way children manage their di...

Video: New Survey Shows Three in Four School Nurses Have Students at Risk for Severe Allergic Reactions Who Do Not Bring Auto-Injectable Epinephrine to School

Parents of students with known allergies are urged to put auto-injectable epinephrine at the top of the school supplies list SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey conducted by the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) found that 72% of school nurses have stud...

BNBI Employees Donate 1,000 Backpacks to Frederick County School Children

FREDERICK, Md., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Employees of the Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC raised enough money to purchase 1,000 backpacks for the Frederick County School Board's Community Agency School Services. "Having the required school supplies is a very basic need ...

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology and pathway analysis, today announced that the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence (COE). Miller School of Medi...

Pittsburgh Region Middle School Students Participate in Hands-on Tissue Engineering Summer Camp

PITTSBURGH, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Have you ever wondered why a starfish can completely grow a new arm, but humans cannot? Or, how about the fact that a salamander can regenerate a severed leg, but human beings have to rely on man-made, prosthetic limbs? Many of us have asked the same question...

CET Life Sciences Center Welcomes Belmont University School of Pharmacy as New Tenant

Lab to promote collaborative ventures between Belmont's School of Pharmacy and health care providers NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Cumberland Emerging Technologies, Inc. (CET) today announced that Belmont University has established the Belmont School of Pharmacy...

LI-COR(R) Biosciences and Tiger Woods Learning Center Collaborate to Develop High School Curriculum in Genetics

LINCOLN, Neb., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In a plan designed to develop educational opportunities for students in grades 5-12, LI-COR Biosciences and the Tiger Woods Learning Center (TWLC) are collaborating to pilot a novel approach to genomics education. "A recent report by the National Research ...

Digirad Corporation Signs Letter of Understanding With Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

POWAY, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digirad Corporation (Nasdaq: DRAD ), a leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging systems and services to physicians' offices, hospitals and imaging centers, today announced the signing of a letter of understanding with Johns Hopkins Univers...

Tepper School Team Takes Top Honors at Global Moot Corp(R) Competition

Ninth Award at Leading Venture Contest Makes Carnegie Mellon 'Winningest' School Ever PITTSBURGH, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- For the ninth time, a team of students from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon have landed the top prize this past weekend at leadin...

RediClinic, BIOSAFE Labs and Glycemion to Provide Free Diabetes Risk Assessments to Richmond, Va. School Children

RICHMOND, Va., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- RediClinic LLC announced today that it is teaming up with BIOSAFE Laboratories, Inc. and Glycemion, Inc. to provide free diabetes screenings to school age children in the greater Richmond, Va. area to help identify diabetic and pre-diabetic children and ...

Seneca Valley High School Student Receives Science Award From MedImmune

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Local biotechnology leader MedImmune announced today that Seneca Valley High School student Yiwei Li has received the distinguished "MedImmune Advancing Science for Better Health" award for her ScienceMONTGOMERY project. The company sponsored the Mon...

Open Biosystems' Open Access RNAi Program Adopted by Harvard Medical School and University of North Carolina

Genome scale RNAi analysis affordable and accessible to all researchers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Biosystems, Inc. announced today that Harvard Medical School and the University of North Carolina have joined the Open Access(TM) RNAi Program. Each University purchased acce...

Ventria Receives Friends of Education Award From Geary County School District

JUNCTION CITY, Kan., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday Ventria Bioscience received the Friends of Education Award from the Geary County School District Board. Ventria received the award for their commitment to providing unique educational opportunities in biotechnology for students and teacher...

ASH Holds a Special Symposium to Interest High School Students in Biomedical Research

ATLANTA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will host its annual high school student symposium at the Georgia World Congress Center on Friday, December 7, 2007, beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST. The symposium, which encourages an interest in hematology, the bi...

First European IGRT School Takes Place for Radiotherapy Practitioners in UK

CLATTERBRIDGE, England, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR ) and one of Europe's leading oncology centers are jointly hosting Europe's first IGRT (image guided radiotherapy) training school, enabling hospitals across Europe to be trained to use the latest and...

Intradigm Licenses Key Next Generation RNA Interference (RNAi) Intellectual Property From University of Massachusetts Medical School

Company Continues to Fortify Position in Emerging RNAi Industry through Addition of Important and Novel Small Interfering RNA (siRNA) Structural IP PALO ALTO, Calif., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Intradigm Corporation, a leading developer of targeted, systemic RNA interference (RNAi) therapeu...

UW Journalism School Software Expands Web-Based Research

MADISON - A homegrown software innovation born of "creative laziness" in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is saving time and money and opening doors to a new world of online survey research. "It allows us to conduct research at a much more r...

UW Medical School to build Health Sciences Learning Center

MADISON The University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School has a new home: Health Sciences Learning Center , a $55 million, 160,600-square-foot building that will unify the health sciences on the UW-Madison campus. Part of this is about creating the future of medicine, said Paul DeLuca , as...

Wisconsin Virtual School selects eClassroom to power its program

Tomahauk, Wis. The Wisconsin Virtual School program has selected eClassroom , the K-12 division of eCollege, to power its online program starting in August for the fall term. WVS, in its fifth year, is a statewide online program based in Tomahawk that serves students in approximately 90 school ...

Appleton school installs biometric security

Appleton, Wis. The Academy of Appleton has started to use hand-geometry scanners to secure its key point of entry. Children at the Academy wait indoors to be picked up by their parents, who must now, along with the faculty members, use the biometric HandReader in order to gain access to the sc...

UW Medical School dean to return to research

Philip M. Farrell The University of Wisconsin Medical Schools dean of more than a decade plans to leave administrative office at the end of 2005 to go back to research. Philip M. Farrell is a pediatric pulmonologist whose studies focus on cystic fibrosis, an inherited condition that leads t...

GE Healthcare, Harvard medical school to collaborate on nervous system research

Waukesha, Wis . -- GE Healthcare will collaborate with the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair, using GE Healthcare's cellular imaging system, the IN Cell Analyzer, to enhance research of the human central nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...

Online school to lose $1.2 million, instead of expected gain

Wisconsin's first statewide online high-school program may close unless administrators can fix the problems that led to a massive shortfall on initial expectations, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. IQ Academies was supposed to generate $1 million for the Waukesha school district where i...

UW-Madison medical school names new dean

Madison, Wis. Robert N. Golden, vice dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and former chair of the UNC Department of Psychiatry, has been named the dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Golden, 52, will assume the SMPH top leadersh...

Medical College grad school dean Bill Hendee to retire

Wauwatosa, Wis. - William R. Hendee will retire effective June 30 as dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin , and devote more time to editing a leading scientific journal. Hendee, who also will retire as president of the MCW Research Foundation,...

UW links with Israeli school to locate genes

Madison, Wis. - A collaborative project between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa has shown that thousands of sleeping computers can unravel the twisted code of genetic diseases. Superlink-Online , a program first developed at Tec...

Scott Converse, UW-Madison School of Business, on IT workforce development

Editor's note: As the director of technology programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, Scott Converse is at the forefront of trends in information technology workforce development. In part one of this interview, he talks about the market need for courses that help IT p...

Scott Converse, UW-Madison School of Business, on the innovation mind-set

Editor's note: Scott Converse , director of technology programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part information technologist, part futurist, and part anti-change agent, as he demonstrates in Part II of this interview. In Part I , he addressed information technology workforce develop...

Waukesha to Offer Virtual High School

WAUKESHA, Wis.- The Waukesha school district is launching an online distance-learning program as part of a national network of virtual high schools called iQ Academies. UPDATE: IQ Academies is gearing up for next year. DPI will pay tuition on enrollments through Feb. 25, 2005. Click here for m...

Milwaukee investor gives $10M to business school

Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar, who is the founder of Milwaukee investment company Lubar & Co. and has close ties to the University of Wisconsin, is giving $10 million to the business school. The endowment is the largest the university has received and will fund business professorships, scholarsh...

Measuring what works and what doesn't in the prototypical school

If you're looking for an ambitious mission statement, consider this pledge from the bipartisan Wisconsin School Finance Adequacy Initiative: "We will not simply propose adding new dollars on top of current dollars, but propose a complete new reuse of all dollars first those currently in the (K-1...

UCLA welcomes startup to new incubator space at California NanoSystems Institute

...y with medical and health applications," said Leonard H. Rome, interim director of the CNSI and senior associate dean for research at the David Geffen school of Medicine at UCLA. "CNSI is committed to facilitating collaborations with private industry for the rapid commercialization of new innovations, and w...

Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth

...ieter summer vacation season in contrast to other branded ADHD treatments that have lost market share. We are anticipating the benefits of the back to school season for VYVANSE and are looking forward to increased sales momentum from our co-promote agreement with GSK for adult ADHD. We are also expecting fu...

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals announces launch of Quill SRS product codes for laparoscopic gynecology procedures

...rted by James Greenberg, MD, and Jon Einarsson, MD, MPH, of the Centre for Women's Surgery at Brigham Women's/Faulkner Hospitals and Harvard Medical school Boston, Massachusetts in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, in November of 2008. The results of this small feasibility study looked at the ...