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2 Springer authors receive NWO/Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has announced the winners of the NWO/Spinoza Prize for 2009. Two of the three laureates of this year's Prize are Springer authors, Marten Scheffer and Albert van den Berg. The prize, also viewed as the 'Dutch Nobel Prize,' is the highest D...

Solar cells, geological storage research receive DOE funding at the University of Texas at Austin

AUSTIN, TexasWith two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. De...

Professors Raphael Haftka and C. T. Sun to receive AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes Jr. Award

March 23, 2009 Reston, Va. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society for Composites (ASC) congratulate the winners of the inaugural AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, Jr. Award, Raphael T. Haftka, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin...

Professors Raphael Haftka and C. T. Sun to receive AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, Jr. Award

March 23, 2009 Reston, Va. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society for Composites (ASC) congratulate the winners of the inaugural AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, Jr. Award, Raphael T. Haftka, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin...

Magellan to Receive Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Product Innovation Award; Three-Minute LeadCare(R) II Test Identifies Children with Lead Poisoning

CHELMSFORD, Mass., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Biosciences, an emerging leader in systems for clinical-diagnostics, will receive the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Product Innovation Award for LeadCare II, a rapid, point-of-care test that enables children and adults to be screened ...

Mental Stimulus Package: Government Officials who Forgot to Pay Taxes Will Receive Free Memory-boosting Supplement

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A biotech company in Madison, Wisconsin is so concerned about the declining quality of memory among federal government officials that they have volunteered to give away free bottles of brain-enhancing supplements to any member of Congress or the incoming admi...

Human Genome Sciences to Receive $9 Million Milestone Payment Related to GlaxoSmithKline Initiation of Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Syncria(R) in Type 2 Diabetes

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI ) today announced that GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK ) has initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial program to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of Syncria (R) (albiglutide) in the long-term treatm...

Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Hackensack University Medical Center: First in Nation to Receive Joint Commission Certification for Quality and First in New Jersey to be Named a Blue Distinction(R) Center for Specialty Care.

HACKENSACK, N.J., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center is the first in the United States to receive Disease Specific Care Certification for stem cell transplantation from The Join...

40 High-Achieving Students with Cystic Fibrosis Receive $100,000 Total in Higher Education Scholarships From SolvayCARES(SM)

- One Outstanding Student to Become the SolvayCARES Thriving Student Achiever and Receive $10,000 to Further Academic Goals - MARIETTA, Ga., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has awarded scholarships totaling $100,000 to 40 students living with cystic fibrosis (CF)...

Vermillion and Stanford Scientists Receive 'Best Research Award' From the PAD Coalition

- Award presented at Coalition's Annual Meeting FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vermillion, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRML ), a molecular diagnostics company, announced today that a team of scientists at Stanford University and Vermillion has been awarded the prestigious "B...

Oncothyreon to receive milestone payment

BELLEVUE, WA, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY) (TSX: ONY) (the "Company") today announced that it has completed the transfer of certain assays and manufacturing technology related to Stimuvax(R) (BLP25 liposome vaccine) to Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, trigge...

Wyeth and Progenics Receive Positive Opinion From European Committee for RELISTOR for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Advanced-Illness Patients

Final Decision from European Commission Expected by Mid-2008 COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. and TARRYTOWN, N.Y., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE ), and Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGNX ), today announced that the companies have r...

More Than Half of Patients Treated for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Receive Boehringer Ingelheim's Flomax as First-Line Therapy

Less Than 20 Percent of Patients Diagnosed with the Disease Receive Pharmacotherapy Within a Year of Their Diagnosis, According to a New Report From Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research...

Medarex to Receive Milestone Payment from Novo Nordisk

PRINCETON, N.J., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medarex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDX ) today announced that it will receive a milestone payment for an undisclosed amount from its licensing partner, Novo Nordisk A/S. This payment is a result of the submission of an Investigational New Drug applicat...

Pharmacopeia to Receive $5 Million Payment from GlaxoSmithKline

Payment Triggered by Pharmacopeia's Achievement of Collaboration Criteria PRINCETON, N.J., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacopeia (Nasdaq: PCOP ), an innovator in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, announced today that it will receive a payment of $5 m...

Digirad Corporation to Receive Frost & Sullivan 2007 North American Award for Product Strategy

Digirad Recognized for Imaging Platform and Successful Mobile Imaging Services Network POWAY, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digirad Corporation (Nasdaq: DRAD ), a leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging systems and services to physicians' offices,...

The LANCET Published ENDORSE, the Largest Multinational Study Showing That the Majority of Hospitalized Patients Surveyed are at Risk for VTE and Many do not Receive Recommended VTE Prophylaxis

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, February 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - ENDORSE Global Findings Highlight the Need to Urgently Implement Hospital-Wide Strategies to Optimize VTE Management: Systematically Assess Patient Risk for VTE and Provide Appropriate Prophylaxis to Prevent VTE ENDORSE multinational s...

ThromboGenics and BioInvent Receive Approval to Begin Clinical Trials of TB-403 for the Treatment of Cancer

LEUVEN, Belgium and LUND, Sweden, January 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR) and co-development partner BioInvent International AB (Nordic Exchange: BINV) announce today that they have received approval from the regulatory authorities in Denmark to initiate ...

Millennium to Receive $40 Million Milestone Payment for Achievement of Sales Threshold for Velcade(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MLNM ) today announced that it will receive a $40 million payment from Ortho Biotech Products, L.P. for achieving a material sales milestone in 2007 for VELCADE outside the U.S. Milestone payments ar...

Quest PharmaTech to Receive $3,000,000 to Develop Oncology Products Based on its SonoLight Technology

EDMONTON, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Quest PharmaTech Inc. (TSX Venture Exchange: QPT) today announced that it has signed an agreement with a multinational technology development company (the "Investor") to receive $3,000,000 to develop oncology products based on its SonoLight Technology...

Stem Cell Leader Beike Biotech and China's Tsinghua University Receive US$4 Million for Stem Cell Reprogramming Laboratory

-- Patients suffering from a range of debilitating illnesses, such as spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, optic nerve hypoplasia, multiple sclerosis and ataxia stand to benefit from a new laboratory, established with a Chinese Government grant. Such a facility will put China at the forefr...

Peter Cummings to receive the 2007 AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award

Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt, will receive the 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award at the institutes annual meeting in November. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the ad...

ZymoGenetics and Merck Serono Receive FDA Special Protocol Assessment for Atacicept Pivotal Study in Lupus Nephritis

- Patient enrollment to begin in fourth quarter - SEATTLE, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ZymoGenetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZGEN) today announced that, together with its collaborator Merck Serono, it has reached agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special Pro...

BioNanomatrix and Complete Genomics Receive $8.8 Million NIST-ATP Award to Develop Sequencing Platform for $100 Genome

- Project Combines Novel Gene Sequencing Chemistry and Advanced Nanofluidic Technology to Sequence Entire Human Genome in Eight Hours at a Cost of $100 - PHILADELPHIA, and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- BioNanomatrix, Inc., a company developing ...

BioNanoatrix and Complete Genomics Receive $8.8 Million NIST-ATP Award to Develop Sequencing Platform for $100 Genome

- Project Combines Novel Gene Sequencing Chemistry and Advanced Nanofluidic Technology to Sequence Entire Human Genome in Eight Hours at a Cost of $100 - PHILADELPHIA, and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- BioNanomatrix, Inc., a company developing ...

Wisconsin to Receive $25 Million for Bioterrorism

Funds to be used for labs, technology, research, communication and planning WASHINGTON - HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has made available an additional $1.4 billion to increase the capacity of states, territories and metro area...

Standard Imaging and Tushaus receive DOC Tech Zone credits

MADISON Two technology companies have received a total of $195,500 in tax credits from the Department of Commerce. Gov. Jim Doyle announced last Friday that Standard Imaging, Inc. , Middleton, will receive $120,000 in Technology Zone tax credits and Tushaus Computer Services, Inc. , Milwaukee, w...

Chippewa County manufacturers to receive tax credits

Two Chippewa County technology firms will receive $250,000 and $150,000, respectively, in tax credits from Wisconsins Technology Zone program. Under the program, tax credits are awarded to businesses in eight zones statewide that are commercializing technology or using advanced manufacturing t...

UW professor and WARF receive presidential medals

Madison got a double dose of national honors on Monday as President Bush gave medals to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Carl R. de Boor and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for achievements in mathematics and technology transfer, respectively. The 2003 National Medals of Sc...

Technology development projects receive funding

Madison, Wis. - Governor Jim Doyle today announced that three Wisconsin businesses will receive funding for technology development projects from the Department of Commerce Technology Matching Grant (TMG) and Technology Venture Fund (TVF) Programs. The projects are as follows: Quintessenc...

Midwest biotech stocks receive hefty haircut in first half of 2005

When we met last week, we reviewed the performance of the Midwest large cap life science group of companies in the context of how the overall stock market indices reacted during the first half of 2005. The message was that the major indices were substantially down (as can be seen below) with...

Emerging technology companies receive significant funding

Good news for some of Madisons emerging technology companies as they received significant funding this past week. These investments and grants will help to accelerate the growth of these high tech firms. Alfalight, a UW-Madison spinout company that manufacturers high-powered laser devices, announc...

Medical College researchers receive new grants to enhance discovery of heart-protecting anesthetics

Wauwatosa, Wis. -- The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a five-year, $1 million grant to study the mechanisms by which inhaled anesthetics protect the human heart against injury from interruptions in blood flow like those occurring during heart surgery. The college also has received a gr...

Three state businesses receive technology grants

Madison, Wis. - Three Wisconsin businesses will receive funding for technology development projects from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce under the Technology Assistance Grant program. The TAG program provides grants of up to $15,000 to early-stage Wisconsin high-tech companies to offset the...

T.E.C. Center to receive Commerce grant

Madison, Wis. - The Technology, Education, and Commerce (T.E.C.) Center , a high-tech incubator located on Madison's east side, will receive a $32,000 Community-Based Economic Development grant to improve technology services for tenants. The grant, which will be awarded by the Wisconsin Depa...

Nation's only stem cell bank will receive UC-San Francisco cell line

Madison, Wis. - The Madison-based National Stem Cell Bank has announced it will receive human embryonic stem cells from the University of California-San Francisco , giving it 13 of the 21 stem cell lines available on the federal registry. Beth Donley, executive director of the WiCell Resea...

Software exec Jan Eddy to receive "Seize the Day" award

Madison, Wis. - Jan Eddy, an entrepreneur who built and rebuilt technology-based companies in Wisconsin, is the winner of the 2007 Seize the Day award, which will be presented June 13 at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference in Milwaukee. Eddy, who has overcome business and personal health...

Madison to receive funding as part of $60M solar energy program

New York, N.Y. - Madison and 12 other cities will share a $2.5 million allocation from the United States Department of Energy as part of the DOE's 2007 Solar America Cities initiative. Solar America Cities, which is part of a $60 million DOE solar energy program announced by DOE Secretary ...

UW-Madison to receive $125M for bioenergy research center

Madison, Wis. - The United States Department of Energy will invest up to $375 million over five years in three new Bioenergy Research Centers, including $125 million for a center led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison , to promote the development of cellulosic ethanol. The Madison bioe...

KV Pharmaceutical Announces Stockholder Action to Amend By-Laws is Invalid

...unt of proceeds to be received from such monetization and the timing of receipt of proceeds by the Company; (28) the timing and ability to realize and receive expected tax refunds, the actual refund amount to be received by the Company subject to any challenges or otherwise and the timing of receipt of the r...