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Syngenta Board Proposes Stefan Borgas to Become New Director

BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Syngenta announced today that the Board of Directors will propose to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on April 21, 2009, to name Stefan Borgas as a new member of the Syngenta Board. Stefan Borgas (45) is Chief Executive Officer o...

Don't Wait - Do It Now!(TM) Become an Organ and Tissue Donor

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The need for organ and tissue donation increases daily. In Ohio, nearly 3,000 people are waiting for a life saving organ transplant and many more are in need of tissue. Four Ohioans die each week waiting for a transplant. What better gift to give during this...

Dr. Charles Sanders to Become Lead Director of Epiphany Biosciences

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Epiphany Biosciences, Inc. announced today that Dr. Charles Sanders has accepted the position of Lead Director. Dr. Sanders is a highly experienced biotechnology and pharmaceutical executive, currently serving as Lead Director of Genentech. He ha...

Loic Maurel Joins Exonhit Therapeutics to Become CEO

PARIS, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ExonHit Therapeutics, a drug and diagnostic company, today announces that Loic Maurel, M.D., will join ExonHit Therapeutics on July 1st as Chief Operating Officer. At the next meeting of the Supervisory Board, he will be appointed CEO (President du Direc...

Leadership Change to Enable Arpida to Become a Fully Integrated Pharmaceutical Company

REINACH, Switzerland, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arpida Ltd. (SWX: ARPN) today announced that Dr Jurgen Raths will succeed Dr Khalid Islam as Chief Executive Officer. Dr Jurgen Raths commands extensive knowledge in the commercialisation of drugs for the treatment of severe infections i...

Veteran Drug Industry Executive to Become President of CTI

New Leadership Completes CTI's Transformation to Commercial Operating Business SEATTLE, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTIC ; MTAX) today announced that Craig W. Philips, most recently Vice President and General Manager of B...

Centocor/Janssen-Cilag's Ustekinumab Will Become the Gold Standard for Psoriasis By 2011

Competitive Advantages in Efficacy Will Drive Prescription Rates, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, ...

Wisconsins Businesses Can Become Environmental Leaders

Studies suggest 1500 Megawatts of Electricity Could Be Saved The current state of energy policy in the Wisconsin, especially after the California Energy Crisis and the Blackout of 2003, is undergoing a paradigm shift. There was a time when the major power for change in the electricity industr...

San Diego success stories become a challenge for the Midwest

UCSD'S Geisel Library Source: UCSD MADISON, Wis. The Madison-area technology business community has received a challenge to grow beyond itself. Mary Walshok, an associate vice chancellor with the University of California at San Diego, thinks the area has limitations that lie not with its res...

VoIP breaks out, but let's hope it doesn't become a verb

For the last several months, Ive been using Skype , voice over IP software and service (download here ) that lets me make peer-to-peer voice calls from my computer to anyone else on the Skype platform. My interest in the product wasnt purely theoretical. Certainly I wanted to evaluate the softw...

Biodiversity threatened as forests become 'islands' of green, UW professor says

America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a UW-Madison forestry researcher reports at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada. The widening circle of developm...

Can Madison become a video game Mecca?

Madison, Wis. - Can Madison, perhaps even Wisconsin, make video games the state's next big export? While the establishment of two successful game developers - Raven Software and Human Head - hardly represents a critical mass, the Capital City does host a nationally known Games, Learning, a...

Venture-backed firms could become eligible for federal SBIR grants

Madison, Wis. - Members of the small business community fear that changing the legal framework for companies receiving certain federal grants could stifle research. The U.S. House Small Business Committee will soon consider a proposal that would give small companies majority-owned by venture...

Growth spurts

... and scientists were forced to gauge the processes behind those products by ensemble averages of many molecules. The limitations of that approach have become clear with the advent of technologies that allow for the observation and manipulation of single molecules. A prime example is the recent first ever di...

Schering-Plough Shareholders Approve Merger With Merck

...0.5767 of a common share in the combined company (to be called Merck) and $10.50 in cash for each Schering-Plough common share. Each Merck share will become a share of the combined company. Following completion of the merger, it is anticipated that the combined company will continue the dividend policies ...

Omnio Healer Selects Eden Biodesign for cGMP Production of its Candidate Wound Healing and Anti-Infection Treatments

... to take the next step and gain access to GMP-material for use in clinical trials. At the same time, we have every confidence that Eden Biodesign will become a valuable partner in this regard, providing both cGMP process development and production." Eden Biodesign's CEO, Dr. Crawford Brown, commented...

The Breast Cancer Therapeutics Market in Australia

...ted as the future of breast cancer treatment. Combinations of these highly specific therapies with existing cytotoxic and hormonal therapies will soon become the standard of oncology care. Frost & Sullivan's latest research service on The Breast Cancer Therapeutics Market in Australia provides ...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Provides Clinical Studies Update

... designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS vaccines also may be effective as therapeutics (treatment of people already infected with HIV). GeoVax's core AIDS vacci...

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

...medical need with the goal of getting important new treatments to patients earlier. Shire will file additional sections of the NDA as they become available. Results from the first of the three Phase 3 trials were positive, and achieved statistically significant improvements in the pr...

Patent Attorney John Rizvi Speaks at FIME International Medical Expo

...atent holder to maintain monopoly pricing and avoids the product becoming a commodity," said Rizvi. Patents for medical device companies have become increasingly important as more competitors from overseas and nationally are launching knock-off products based on a patent holder's intellectual prope...

Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations

...he formation of flexible grain boundary defects, or interfaces, between zeolite crystals. These defects can grow much larger than the zeolite pores to become "nonselective" pathways that can be permeated by the very molecules the zeolite is designed to separate. "The molecules that you are trying to sepa...

Five Questions About Protopic (tacrolimus) Ointment

...in infections such as chicken pox or herpes or if they've been told they have a weakened immune system, or are pregnant, breast feeding or planning to become pregnant.(11) Important I n formation Patients S h ould Kno w About Protopic Ointment The safety of using Protopic Ointment for a ...

AEterna Zentaris Partner, Keryx, Announces Agreement with FDA on a Special Protocol Assessment for Phase 3 Trial with Perifosine (KRX-0401) for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

...ited States. To date, several FDA approved therapies exist for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Despite this progress, patients continue to relapse, become refractory to prior treatments and eventually die from their disease. Thus, new therapies are needed to treat these patients and extend their survival...

Global Jatropha Hi-Tech Agricultural Training Programme (JWTP)

...forthcoming Jatrophaworld training October 2009, the Director Training Mr. S.S. Mishra said "Jatrophaworld Training Programme is a great place to become educated on the many sustainable feedstocks for building a successful biodiesel and afterward, attendees are able to focus on their goals. Just imagin...

CuraGen Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...he Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other relevant materials (when they become available) and any other documents filed by Celldex or CuraGen with the SEC... Statement/Prospectus/prospectus and the other relevant materials when they become available before making any voting or investment decision with respect to t...

RadMD First to Offer CME-Certified Education and Training For Medical Imaging in Clinical Trials

... DOYLESTOWN, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- RadMD, Inc. ( www.rad-md.net ) has become the first company to offer a broad range of accredited CME courses in the area of medical imaging for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech clini...

United States FDA Clears the REGEN Trial to Test Bioheart's Combination Gene and Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure Patients

...ii) our dependence on the success of our lead product candidate; (viii) our inability to predict the extent of our future losses or if or when we will become profitable; (ix) our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and (x) intense competition. The Company is also subject to the risks and un...

FluMist(R) Begins Shipping for 2009-2010 Influenza Season

... of increasing seasonal flu vaccination rates among eligible kids and families across the country. As part of the multi-faceted campaign, FluMist has become an official sponsor of WPS, the world's premier women's professional soccer league, working with real-life soccer moms and the league to reach familie...

Amgen to Collaborate With GlaxoSmithKline to Commercialize Denosumab in Europe for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (PMO)

...nd movement from concept to product is uncertain; consequently, there can be no guarantee that any particular product candidate will be successful and become a commercial product. Further, some raw materials, medical devices and component parts for Amgen products are supplied by sole third-party suppliers....

PTC Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of PTC299 in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2

...ten leading to deafness and problems with balance. If unchecked, NF2-related tumors may eventually damage other cranial nerves and the brainstem, and become life-threatening. Current standard treatments for NF2-related tumors include surgery and radiation therapy. However, a study conducted at Massachuse...

Northwest Biotherapeutics Announces Plans to De-list From AIM and Consolidate its Stock Market Listing in U.S.

...the NASD Over the Counter Bulletin Board Market ("U.S. listing"), and plans to file an S1 registration statement under which the stock held on AIM may become tradable on the U.S. market. After much review and evaluation, the Company has concluded that it is in the best interests of the Company and ...

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces filing of shelf-registration statement

...ring. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This new...

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Signs Biopharmaceutical Company, Lilly, as Anchor New York City Tenant at the Alexandria Center for Science and Technology

...rvices space, at the Alexandria Center, which will become the new research headquarters for ImClone Systems,...ey need to locate and expand. Lilly's decision to become its anchor tenant is evidence that our work is pay...e Park The Alexandria Center is poised to become on of the world's leading centers for life science...

NewBridge Pharmaceuticals Announces Licensing of Pylera(R) for Middle East, Africa, Turkey & Caspian Region

... "In partnering with Axcan for the Pylera 3-in-1 capsule therapy for Helicobacter pylori eradication, NewBridge Pharmaceuticals advances further to become one of the key providers of innovative pharmaceutical care to the Middle East, Turkey, CIS and Africa," said Dr. Garrett Vygantas, CEO of NewBridge Ph...

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

...sitive, and selective diagnostics. OMP™ has become the gold standard for assay development. It is ut...rameters will be released to each customer as they become available and as part of the Modifieds™ soft...ntific Officer). DNA Software's technologies have become the standard of excellence for nucleic acid resear...

Study Published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Demonstrated Once-Daily Vyvanse(R) (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) CII Provided Significant Improvement of ADHD Symptoms for Children at 13 Hours After Administration

...ents include educational approaches, psychological, or behavioral modification, and medication. SHIRE PLC Shire's strategic goal is to become the leading specialty biopharmaceutical company that focuses on meeting the needs of the specialist physician. Shire focuses its business on attention...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Licenses Anti-VEGF Antibodies to Affitech

...ted now to have acquired the exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights for this exciting program." Anti-VEGF therapy has become a standard part of treatments for many different types of solid tumors. According to projections of some market analysts, sales of anti-VEGF antibodi...

Specialty Technical Consultants becomes Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE)

... Specialty Technical Consultants, Inc. (STC) today announced that it has become a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). Companies committed to diversity ...- Specialty Technical Consultants, Inc. (STC) today announced that it has become a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) . Companies committed to diversity...

Practice makes perfect -- motor memory possible for neuroprosthetic control

... be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. In order to become proficient in any motor task, all that practice must eventually modify the ...ork. "When your own body performs motor tasks repeatedly, the movements become almost automatic," said study principal investigator Jose Carmena. "The pro...

New geothermal heat extraction process to deliver clean power generation

...bench-top prototype generating electricity," predicts PNNL Laboratory Fellow Pete McGrail. "If successful, enhanced geothermal systems like this could become an important energy source." A technical and economic analysis conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that enhanced geotherm...