Young in Biological Technology

Vi typhoid vaccine proves highly effective in young children

SEOUL, Korea -- A new study has found that a currently available yet underused vaccine against typhoid fever is highly effective in young children and protects unvaccinated neighbors of vaccinees. The study, conducted by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in collaboration with the Natio...

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

RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside's Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau has received a national honor that few outstanding researchers who are beginning their independent research careers are given. Lau, an associate professor of physics , is one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards fo...

Chicago-Area Pediatricians Offering Unique Test to Detect Vision Problems in Children as Young as Six Months of Age

Area Pediatric Offices Now Offering the Enfant(TM) Pediatric VEP Vision Testing System, Providing Early Detection for Better Treatment Outcomes CHICAGO, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- If your child had vision problems, you'd be able to tell, wouldn't you? Maybe not, says Barry Goldman, M.D., pedi...

Dendreon Corporation CEO Mitchell H. Gold, M.D. Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) 2009 Award Finalist in the Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dendreon Corporation today announced that Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell H. Gold, M.D., is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (R) 2009 Award in the Pacific Northwest. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the awards program re...

3SBio Inc. Announces Appointment of Ernst & Young Hua Ming as Independent Auditor

SHENYANG, China, May 5 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- 3SBio Inc. (Nasdaq: SSRX ) ("3SBio" or "the Company"), a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, today announced the appointment of Ernst & ...

Helping Young Women Succeed in Today's Unpredictable World

Because the unexpected happens, www.WhatWillYourPlanBe.com offers post college-aged women expert guidance in career, financial planning and sexual health MONTVALE, N.J., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Many young women enter the "real world" expecting that life will go according to plan, particularly...

Thin films research lands engineering professor Air Force Young Investigator Award

Blacksburg, Va. -- The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Shashank Priya, associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a $100,000, three-year renewable grant to conduct basic research in the area of high-frequency electronic co...

Elsevier Announces Winners of 3rd Annual Scopus Young Indian Scientist Award

NEW DELHI, India, December 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific information, announced today the winners of the third annual Scopus Young Indian Scientist Award. Prof. J J Theo Groothuizen, S&T Counsellor, Embassy of Netherlands, presided over the a...

Ernst & Young Benchmarks Danish Biotech Pipeline Third in Europe

COPENHAGEN, December 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A strong pipeline makes the Copenhagen Region biotech cluster well prepared for the challenges ahead. With 185 drug candidates in preclinical and clinical development, Denmark ranks third in Europe. Only United Kingdom and Germany have a bigger pipeline. ...

New Young Investigator Grants for Probiotics Research Announced

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Probiotics Council (GPC), a committee formed by Groupe DANONE and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., announced the availability of two grants for the second annual Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research (YIGPRO) today. Each Young Investigator Gra...

Noninvasive Medical Technologies Helps Make Young Tennessee Woman's Wishes Come True

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- "Thanks to NMT, all of my wishes are coming true," says Kristin Shumpert, who is traveling from Oak Ridge, Tennessee this week to experience the lights, sounds and excitement of Las Vegas ... and to meet the people who "saved my life." Until recently, the prospe...

DermTech and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, Initiate Study to Understand Effects of Vitamin D as a Treatment for Atopic Dermatitis in Children and Young Adults

DermTech's Non-invasive EGIR Technology to be Employed to Generate Genetic, Objective Data on Therapy Response LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DermTech, a biotechnology company developing EGIR(TM) (Epidermal Genetic Information Retrieval) technology for the non-invasiv...

Global Probiotics Council Announces First Awardees for New Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Probiotics Council (GPC), a committee established in 2004 by Groupe DANONE and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., announced the two awardees who will receive the inaugural Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research (YIGPRO) today. The program was...

Agensys Founder, President, & CEO Dr. Donald Rice Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award Winner for the Greater Los Angeles Area

Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in Emerging Category LOS ANGELES, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Agensys, Inc. a biotechnology company, today announced that Dr. Donald Rice, Founder, President, & CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award in the Emerging ca...

Global Probiotics Council Announces Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research to Fund the Next Generation of Gut Microbiota Research

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Probiotics Council (GPC), a committee established in 2004 by Groupe DANONE and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., announced the Young Investigator Grant for probiotics research program (YIGPRO) today. The two annual grants are designed to stimulate inno...

The neural basis of 'number sense' in young infants

Behavioral experiments indicate that infants aged 4 months or older possess an early number sense that allows them to detect changes in the number of objects. However, the neural basis of this ability was previously unknown. This week in the online journal PLoS Biology, Vronique Izard, Ghislaine ...

Genome Technology Magazine Names Top Young Investigators of 2007

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In its second annual young investigators special issue, Genome Technology magazine has named 31 rising young scientists who are making an impact early in their careers. The issue offers readers a chance to see large-scale biomedical research through the eyes o...

Amyris Biotechnologies Co-Founder Neil Renninger Named to Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 List of Top Young Innovators

Amyris Co-founder Recognized for Role in Engineering Microbes to Produce Lower Cost Anti-malarials and High-performing Renewable Biofuels; TR35 2007 Recipients to be Honored at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNe...

Global Financial Crisis Making Biotech Business Model Unsustainable, According to Ernst & Young

Deep financing challenges separate haves and have-nots and accelerates move to sustainable models BOSTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial performance in 2008, according to Beyond borders: Global biotechno...

Failing to Demonstrate Value of Innovation is Top Risk Facing Life Sciences Sector, According to Ernst & Young

NEW YORK, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Government and private insurers are placing unprecedented pressures on Life Sciences companies to demonstrate value for the products they develop, according to The 2009 Ernst & Young business risk report, Life sciences. Insurers, governments and individuals a...

Agent in red wine found to keep hearts young

MADISON - How, scientists wonder, do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats? The answer to the so-called "French paradox" may be found in red wine. More specifically, it may reside in small doses of resveratrol, a natural constituent of g...

LEDS Bring Relief to Young Cancer Patients

First-round tests successful for Barneveld-made device BARNEVELD, WI. - A device using specialized light emitting diodes (LED), based on NASA technology for plant growth in space, is continuing to show promise as a treatment to aid healing of bone marrow transplant patients. Use of the LED app...

How to keep young talent working for you

Many companies are their own worst enemies when it comes to retaining young talent. Ive lost count of the number of managers Ive met that have given up on this task. Many seem to believe that young people have some form of career ADD or commitment phobia that prevents them from staying in any one c...

Innovation Days will show off potential young entrepreneurs

Madison, Wis. Fifty-two University of Wisconsin undergrads are going to vie for a piece of $26,000 in prizes this Thursday and Friday for creative inventions that could turn into businesses down the line. The Schoofs Prize for Creativity and Tong Prototype Prize reward students for engineerin...

Madison company cosponsors young entrepreneur awards

Madison, Wis. Ten $1,000 scholarships and a top prize of $7,500 in seed capital are on the line for young entrepreneurs in a business-plan competition sponsored by BizFilings , a company headquartered in Madison, and the Young Entrepreneur Foundation . The contest, named Plan for the Future...

The state of global biotech: An Ernst & Young perspective

One of the things I always like about the annual BIO International Conference is that the accounting firm of Ernst & Young always releases at this event its latest report on the state of the biotech industry called: Beyond Borders: Global Biotechnology Industry 2007. This report is chock ...

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

...s are now delivering clear commercial benefits, as we enter a new phase of Shire's development. We have diversified into a broader portfolio of young products with strong intellectual property and exciting growth prospects. We continue to increase the global reach of our business, and now have a pre...

Sanofi-aventis U.S. Introduces BenzaClin(R) Carekit

...ice President and Head of the General Therapeutics Business Unit, sanofi-aventis. While maintaining moisture can be a challenge for teens and young adults dealing with acne, the arrival of the carekit offers an acne treatment and a moisturizer under one easy to write prescription. In addi...

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

...W.M. Keck Foundation's 2009 class of Distinguished young Scholars in Medical Research. Shou is among five U...ablished by Keck to provide resources to promising young scientists in pursuit of groundbreaking biomedical...e California Institute of Technology. Other young Scholars awardees from the Hutchinson Center have ...

FDA Grants First Authorization of a Commercial 2009 H1N1 Flu Test for use During Pandemic Flu Emergency to Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics Business

...tely 14 percent. "Our data are consistent with CDC data suggesting that this pandemic flu virus is disproportionately affecting children and young adults, as compared to older adults," Jay M. Lieberman, M.D., medical director, Focus Diagnostics, said. "In fact, almost 60 percent of all positive r...

Novavax Announces Selection of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine Candidate for Advanced Preclinical Studies

...antibody. The antibody reduces RSV-related hospitalizations in infants and young children at high risk of severe disease. However, several injections are r...mmonly identified cause of lower respiratory tract illnesses in infants and young children. Repeated infections occur throughout life causing moderate to se...

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

... network of adult stem cell collection centers that are focused on enabling people to donate and store their own (autologous) stem cells when they are young and healthy for their personal use in times of future medical need. The Company has also entered into research and development through the acquisition...

NeoStem Featured on CBS2 News; Success of Licensed Stem Cell Treatments Shown for Arthritis and Orthopedic Problems; Procedure to be Used by NeoStem Affiliate in China

... network of adult stem cell collection centers that are focused on enabling people to donate and store their own (autologous) stem cells when they are young and healthy for their personal use in times of future medical need. The Company has also entered into research and development through the acquisition...

Novel gene found for dilated cardiomyopathy

...e may cause DCM, which is the most common cause of chronic heart failure in young people and the most common reason for heart transplant. ANKRD1 is a gene th.... Dr. Towbin and his colleagues screened 208 patients, mostly children and young adults, with DCM for gene mutations. They found three, disease-associated ...

Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

...ceiving both of this year's two highest awards for young faculty members: the NSF CAREER Award and the PECA...d research program," Clifton said. Zia joins 40 young scientists nationwide nominated by the Department ...s, won the award. "These extraordinarily gifted young scientists and engineers represent the best in our...

REMERON(R) Now Approved in Japan for the Treatment of Depression in Adult Patients

...havior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive d...ny other antidepressant in a child, adolescent, or young adult must balance this risk with the clinical nee...havior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 18-24) with major depressive disorder...

Harvest Technologies Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in its 60 Patient Clinical Trial in India Using Autologous Adult Stem Cells to Treat Patients With Non-Reconstructable Critical Limb Ischemia

... these patients with peripheral vascular disease are between the ages of 40 to 50. They suffer from ThromboAngitis Obliterans, which is predominant in young smokers. They have severe pain and limb loss is significant because revascularization chances are very low in these patients. Most of them end up in m...

Bay Area Youth to Represent ALS Patients at Giants' and Angels' Baseball Games on July 4th

...three to five years after diagnosis. "Corey is an amazing and positive young man. He and his family have impacted us greatly at ALS TDI. We are very l...our work. It is heartbreaking that there is so little that can be done for young men and women like Corey today. That is unacceptable, and we must not stop ...

NeoStem Raises Additional Funds from Principals of Suzhou Erye Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd. and U.S. Institutional and Private Investors, Bringing the Total Recent Financings to Over $15 Million; Funds Will Support Expansion Activities in the United State

...llection centers in major metropolitan areas in the United States, enabling people to donate and store their own (autologous) stem cells when they are young and healthy for their personal use in times of future medical need. The Company also has entered into research and development through the acquisitio...

Sanofi Pasteur Responds to Nation's Need for Hib Vaccine With Increased Supply

...resent an increase of Hib carriage and transmission from older non-symptomatic children to those children whose parents refused vaccination or are too young to have received their full primary series. While this is a hypothesis, it's reassuring to know we won't have to put it to the test, and can begin im...