Jubilant to Work With Endo Pharmaceuticals on Drug Development

NOIDA, India, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - Collaboration to Provide Endo Pharmaceuticals With New Drug Candidates in Oncology Jubilant Organosys Ltd., headquartered in Noida, announced today that its Bangalore-based subsidiary, Jubilant Biosys Ltd., has entered into a discovery and ...

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

Research Published by Scripps Associate Professor Xiang-Lei Yang Further Validates aTyr Pharma's Discovery Engine for Proprietary Drugs SAN DIEGO, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The June 1st, 2009 edition of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) News & Views highlights newly published researc...

DuPont Named Among Best Places to Work by The Scientist Magazine

DuPont has been named among the best places to work in the biotechnology industry by The Scientist magazine. Wilmington, DE (Vocus) May 29, 2009 -- DuPont has been named among the best places to work in the biotechnology industry by The Scientist magazine. ...

Caprion Proteomics Inc. and Applied Bioystems Work Together to Accelerate Protein Biomarker Verification and Validation

Combination of industry-leading services with unique QTRAP(R) technology MONTREAL, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Caprion Proteomics Inc. today announced that it is working with Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE ), to accelerate the verification and valid...

Neurocrine Announces Work Force Restructuring

SAN DIEGO, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX ) announced today staff reductions of approximately 60 employees, as a part of its restructuring program to focus the Company's efforts on its clinical programs and pre-clinical development leads. Following th...

Medicago initiates work on Swine Flu strain

QUEBEC CITY, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX-V: MDG), a biotechnology company focused on developing highly effective and affordable vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), today announced that it has received a genetic sequence...

Hoosiers Work for Health Highlights Impact of Medical Research and Innovation on Indiana Economy

INDIANAPOLIS, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A coalition of Indiana's leaders in research, medicine, public health, education, labor and business joined today to launch Hoosiers Work for Health ( www.hoosiersworkforhealth.org ) to stress the importance of preserving medical innovation. Co-chairs, forme...

Patent for Making Combination Chemotherapy Work Better

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Patent 7,507,704 issued on 03/24/09 to NexGen Biomedical, Inc. founder Mark Zamoyski of San Jose, California discloses an improved method of treating lung, brain, pancreatic, breast and colon cancers that are driven by a mutation known as HER1 overexpress...

Experts at Healthcare Conference Support Investments in the Health of Work Culture and Care Processes, Not Just Technology

ORLANDO, Florida, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - Attendees at The 18th CPM Resource Center Conference Hear Recommendations for Change in the Stimulus Plan Era The healthcare industry has a unique opportunity to make valuable use of the billions allotted for healthcare information tech...

AMERIGROUP Corporation Named One of Best Places to Work in Healthcare

Company Ranked First Among Nation's Health Insurers VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Oct. 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP ) has been named one of America's Best Places to Work In Healthcare -- and the best among the country's health insurers -- in a survey c...

Update: The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative Begins Work on New Compounds to Fill Early-Stage TB Drug Pipeline

U.S. National Institutes of Health, The Infectious Disease Research Institute and Eli Lilly and Company Announce Launch and Board of Advisors SEATTLE, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative today announced its first acquisition of compounds for further devel...

The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative Begins Work on New Compounds to Fill Early-Stage TB Drug Pipeline

U.S. National Institutes of Health, The Infectious Disease Research Institute and Eli Lilly and Company Announce Launch and Board of Advisors SEATTLE, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative today announced its first acquisition of compounds for further devel...

Fujirebio Diagnostics Named One of the Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania

Malvern-based company places as one of fifty best medium-sized companies MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., a Malvern-based company, was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in PA for 2008 in a statewide survey and awards program created by a public/pr...

Quintiles Recognized Among 'Best Companies to Work For' in Brazil

Also Named as a "Best Place to Work" Around the World RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiles has been recognized by the Great Places to Work(R) (GPTW) Institute as one of the top 100 "Best Companies to Work For" in Brazil. The 2008 rankings were recently publ...

BioSpace Launches Life Science Career Content and Resources from the Biotech Work Portal

BioSpace.com to feature career information from group funded by US Department of Labor SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BioSpace, the world's leading online community and career network for the life sciences industry, announced today the incorporation of usef...

Zenobia Therapeutics, Inc. Receives Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Award for Work on PD-implicated Protein LRRK2

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenobia Therapeutics, Inc. (Zenobia) announced today that it has received a Therapeutics Development Initiative award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The program targets industry-based research with potential to fundamental...

Quintiles Named to Computerworld Magazine's '100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology' List

Only Major CRO in 2008 Rankings RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiles Transnational Corp. has been named to Computerworld magazine's 2008 list of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT." Each year, the magazine publishes the results of its Best Places ...

Stem Cell Researcher Wins Award for Excellence for Work With the ImageStream(R) System

SEATTLE, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Society for Analytical Cytometry has bestowed its President's Award for Excellence on Dr. Ewa Zuba-Surma in recognition of her work on the discovery and characterization of embryonic-like stem cells. Dr. Zuba-Surma works at the Stem Cell Biolo...

Beckman Coulter Releases the High-Volume UniCel(R) DxC 880i Integrated Work Cell

Targets Fastest-Growing Segment of Chemistry Testing Market FULLERTON, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC ) announced today that it has launched the UniCel DxC 880i Synchron(R) Access(R) clinical system, an integrated work cell which consolidates ...

deCODE Discovers Gene Variants that May Help to Distribute the Work of Evolution between Men and Women

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scientists from deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN ) today report the discovery of two common, single-letter variants in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) that regulate one of the principle motors of evolution. Versions of the two SNPs, l...

Neurocrine Announces Work Force Restructuring

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX ) announced today staff reductions of approximately 130 employees at its San Diego campus, as a part of its restructuring program to prioritize its research and development programs and associated costs an...

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and Verus Pharmaceuticals Work Together to Raise Awareness of Food Allergies

Local San Diego Companies and Citizens unite to support the upcoming San Diego FAAN Walk to be held Sunday, October 7, at De Anza Cove in Mission Bay Park at 9:00 a.m. FAIRFAX, Va. and SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), a ...

Verenium Advances Its Development Work With Cargill on a New Food-Related Product

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM ), a leading developer of technologies for cellulosic ethanol production and a pioneer in the development of high-performance specialty enzymes, announced today that it has achieved a key technical milesto...

DuPont, Genencor International and Tate & Lyle Honored for Groundbreaking Work in Developing Bio-PDO(TM)

BOSTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The American Chemical Society (ACS) presented the research teams involved in the development of Bio-PDO(TM) with the prestigious 2007 Heroes of Chemistry award this week at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston. Bio-PDO(TM) is a new 100 percent rene...

Visualizing asthma-causing immune cells at work

Immune cells known as eosinophils have a central role in causing asthma. Now, a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, has developed approaches to noninvasively visualize in real-time eosinophil responses in the lungs and airways of mice with a disease that mimics asthma (e...

Biopharmaceutical Alliances: Forging Partnerships That Work

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Intense global competition and today's networked economy have been the driving force behind companies adopting Strategic Alliances as the strategy of the next century. A strategic alliance must be a win-win situation for it to be sustainable and mutu...

The Changing Face of Work (and Play)

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the proliferation of mobile phones, PDAs, BlackBerry devices, and the like was blurring the line between consumer and enterprise purchase and application of technology. After all, very few people have a mobile phone for home use and another for business use. A lot of f...

Women in Midwest IT Have to Fight, Work Harder

CHICAGO - Here is a joke my dad told me (actually, he told it to my 10-year-old daughter and she passed it on): Three guys were walking on a beach and they found a bottle with a cork in it. They opened it up and a genie popped out. "Thanks guys! I was in that bottle for 150 years," the genie says. ...

Outsourcing Offshore - Wisconsin Companies Sending Work Abroad

According to TIME magazine, the pay differential between U.S. white collar workers and those in India is immense. Software Programmer U.S.: $66,100 India: $10,000 IT Manager U.S: $55,000 India: $8,500 Accountant U.S.: $41,000 India: $5,000 Not long ago, jobs leaving the United St...

Make ROI work for you

Return on investment has become a national obsession. Like Mom and apple pie, its hard to argue against it. But in many organizations ROI has become more of a steamroller than a financial tool, and it is not always clear who is in the drivers seat. Because its complex and often poorly defined, it r...

Who does your IT staff work for?

You probably know who signs the paychecks in your organization. Most of us can read an organization chart and figure out who reports to whom. We might even know one or two board members, shareholders or major contributors. But that might not tell you much about who your IT staff is really working f...

Four Wisconsin companies are among Best Places to Work in IT

MADISON, Wis. Four Wisconsin-based companies have be listed in Computerworlds top 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2004 , three of which landed within the top 25. Schneider National, Inc. took 15th nationally, the highest ranking for a Wisconsin company this year. American Family Insurance and Al...

'Don't work here' job interviews set new Midwest technology trend

CHICAGOSomething new is happening in American business. I call it the "humanizing factor" at work. A lot of things are still wretchedly out of whack about the corporate world and the behavior of people in it, but in little ways, people are starting to act more and more like regular people at ...

Governor tells state, university to work together on IT

Memorial Union Terrace Source: UW Communications MADISON - With the University of Wisconsin and the state's Department of Administration on the verge of creating two separate statewide networks, Gov. Jim Doyle has stepped in and asked them to combine their efforts. "It's more sensible for ta...

You might work in a Midwest technology environment if...

CHICAGO While we talk all the time about Midwest technology workplaces in this Nine2Five column, what really constitutes one? Could you qualify as a Midwest tech employee if you work from home doing outside sales for a travel-industry CRM vendor? Yes, technically. After all, technology is so ...

Dont work for free on a maybe someday

If you ever find yourself amid a group of Midwest technology consultants and you want to get them talking, ask them: Have you ever had someone ask you to work for free? Its an amazing thing. You can ply your trade inside top companies for 15 or 20 years and have an outstanding resume and all y...

Does your work add to the bottom line - and how do you know?

I was talking to Rick Landman the other day. He spotted a quote of mine in a Chicago Tribune story, tracked me down in New York and I asked him about the state of the search business. Landman is a well-known Midwest networker and search professional. He said: "Things are excellent. The job mar...

The future of work is now

I just returned from attending the 2nd Annual Future of Work World Congress , an energizing two-day forum in which people from business, government and community economic development came together to envision the future workplace and develop action plans to make it real. The historic Society ...

Be proactive with networking to make it work for you

Like anything in life, you need to be proactive with networking for it to successfully work for you. It takes time and effort before you begin to reap the rewards of your activities. It is true that other people will put in some effort to network with you. However, you also need to actively enga...

The future of work II: standard of working up, quality of work life down

Humans love to keep score. Nowadays there seems to be a scorecard or measurement index for just about everything from the cost of living to the cost of dying and everything in between. The problem with many of these measures is that they take a pure economic view of whatever is being measured. Bu...