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Charging ahead: University of Houston team revealing secrets of electricity-producing materials

Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can even produce electricity. Driven by the vision of our society one day being basically self-propelled, a team of University of Houston s...

A Swiss Team Uses Transcranial MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders

TIRAT CARMEL, Israel, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- InSightec Ltd. today announced that a team at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has completed a feasibility study testing the use of non-invasive transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for the treatment of...

Xanodyne Announces New Executive Team Members

NEWPORT, Ky., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with both development and commercial capabilities focused on women's healthcare and pain management, today announced the appointment of three new members to its executive ...

New Leadership Team at International Trachoma Initiative to Build Stronger Partnerships to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma

Priority is collaborating effectively with government and NGO partners and strengthening the supply chain for delivering Pfizer-donated Zithromax ATLANTA, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) has a new leadership team focused on creating effective col...

Walsh College and Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services Team Up To Offer New Series of 'Take Charge' Workshops for the Unemployed

June 8 kick-off event at Walsh College Troy campus to feature panel discussion, networking workshop, and job seekers networking event TROY, Mich., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Walsh College and Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services have teamed up to offer a new series of...

Canadian research team reports major breakthrough in lithium battery technology

This release is available in French . An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries. The research team of professor Linda Nazar, graduate stu...

USAID Selects Abt Associates to Lead Team in Strengthening Mexico Private Sector Competitiveness

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Abt Associates announced it has been awarded a 5-year, $17.8 million contract from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead a team of organizations in improving private sector competitiveness while protecting biodiversity in ...

Sparta Systems Bolsters Executive Leadership Team with Strategic Additions

Vice Presidents will Leverage Respective Technology and Market Experience to Support Quality Management Leader's Global Growth HOLMDEL, N.J., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparta Systems, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise quality and compliance management software, today announced the appoin...

MIT, BU team combats antibiotic resistance with engineered viruses

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A new approach to fighting bacterial infections, developed at MIT and Boston University, could help prevent bacteria from developing antibiotic resistance and help kill those that have already become resistant. Researchers from both schools have engineered a virus that knocks ...

Inventigo and GridGain Systems Team Up on Delivering Cloud-Enabled High Performance XML Processing

Inventigo and GridGain System partnered up in delivering industry first dedicated solution for high performance XML processing on highly distributed cloud computing infrastructure. The integration between GridGain's Open Cloud Platform and Inventigo's FastXML product provides ready to use solutio...

CorNova(R) Expands Management Team with Appointment of Robert Gallahue as Chief Financial Officer

Company Also Names Richard Sahagian as Senior Scientist BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- CorNova(R), Inc. today announced the expansion of its executive team with the appointment of Robert Gallahue as chief financial officer. The company also announced the addition of Richard ...

Pharmacyclics Announces Appointment of New Management Team and Board Director to Accelerate Its Future Growth

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCYC ), a developmental stage biopharmaceutical company with four drug candidates in clinical testing and several late stage preclinical programs, announced today the appointment of a new management team and a ...

New Study Provides Benchmarks for Winning Brand Team Management

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- New research has illustrated the dramatic impact effective structuring of brand teams can have on the success of pharmaceutical product sales before and after launch. In an effort to better understand the best practices in developing effective brand team...

Glen C. Williams Joins eLearning Sales Team for Simbionix, Heading up Chicago Office

DENVER, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- eTrinsic, a division of Simbionix USA Corporation (Simbionix), a developer of online medical education products and technology for training medical salespeople and professionals, today announced that Glen C. Williams joined the company as Sales Executive for ...

Maureen 'Mo' Zilly Joins the Varian Medical Systems Government Affairs Team as Director, Federal Affairs

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR ), a leading manufacturer of radiotherapy and radiosurgical devices and software for cancer treatment and X-ray imaging, announces the appointment of Maureen "Mo" Zilly to the newly-created position of directo...

Cascades Technologies, Inc. and SAIC Team on $19 Million Contract with National Institutes of Health

HERNDON, Va., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Cascades Technologies, Inc. (CTi), a professional consulting firm for the federal government, together with Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI ), announced the award of a contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious D...

MDV Expands Team Pursuing Advances in Personalized Medicine

MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today announced the addition of Phyllis Whiteley and Dan Riskin to the firm as Executive-in-Residence and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, respectively. Each will pursue and develop star...

MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals Hires Key Commercial Team Members

Company prepares to launch Moxatag(TM), the first and only FDA-approved once-daily amoxicillin, in the first quarter of 2009 GERMANTOWN, Md., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MBRK ), today announced it has hired the following key commercial te...

Franklin & Seidelmann Adds Richard Dyke to Senior Management Team as Senior VP, Sales/Marketing

CLEVELAND, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology (F&S) has added additional depth to its senior management team with the appointment of Richard Dyke as senior vice president, sales and marketing. In this new position, Dyke will be responsible for new client acqui...

Karolinska Development Strengthens its Management Team With the Appointment of Dr Carl Harald Janson

STOCKHOLM, November 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Karolinska Development AB, a Swedish investment company using a unique, highly cost effective model to commercialize internationally renowned life science announced today the appointment of Dr. Carl Harald Janson as investment manager. "Carl Harald is a...

William E. Lewandowski to Lead Simbionix US Marketing Team in Simbionix's Strategic Expansion in the US Market

CLEVELAND, Ohio and LOD, Israel, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Simbionix USA Corporation (Simbionix), a developer of medical simulators and hands-on curriculum for training medical professionals, today announced that William E. Lewandowski will join the company as the US Marketing Director on Nov...

Sustainable Oils Names Scott Johnson as General Manager, Expands Management Team for Camelina Research and Production

BOZEMAN, Mont., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable Oils has named a leading agricultural chemical, seed, and biotechnology industry professional as the company's general manager. Scott Johnson will be responsible for the company's continuing efforts to build camelina production and marketing ...

Genstruct Expands Team with New VP of Engineering

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Genstruct Inc., a systems biology company focused on identifying molecular mechanisms, networks and biomarkers to better understand large-scale biology, announced today that it has appointed Julian Ray, Ph.D. as vice president of Engineering. In his ne...

L&M Healthcare Communications LLC Expands Client Services With Executive Team Expansion

Independent Medical Education Agency Expanding Industry Connections MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- L&M Healthcare Communications LLC, an independent, full-service medical education company, today announced the hiring of Todd Weinstein as Vice President, Business Development. We...

Connecticut's Universities Team Up to Host 2009 Stem Cell Symposium

Scientific presentations and workshops to highlight two day event NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The StemCONN 09 stem cell symposium will bring the stem cell research community to New Haven, Conn., March 23 - 24, 2009. Building on the successful StemCONN 07, which brought 700 sci...

Algenol Biofuels Further Strengthens Team With Key Appointments

Greg Schlicht and Dax Denman Join as Company Enters Commercialization Phase NAPLES, Fla., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Algenol Biofuels, developers of DIRECT TO ETHANOL(TM), the most advanced third generation biofuels technology, today announced the continued growth of the company with the appointme...

InNexus Biotechnology Strengthens Patent Team With New Leadership

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InNexus Biotechnology Inc., (TSX: IXS.V, OTC Bulletin Board: IXSBF, http://www.ixsbio.com ), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL(TM)) technol...

InVitria Further Strengthens Sales Team with Promotion of Brandy Sargent to Account Manager - Western United States

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- InVitria ( http://www.InVitria.com ), a leading global supplier of animal free products that enhance productivity, safety and time to market for companies in the biopharmaceutical, cell culture, life science research and diagnostics industry, today ...

Canopus Biopharma and Leading Chinese Researcher Team Up to Treat Avian Influenza, to Prevent Possible Pandemic

LOS ANGELES, California and GUANGZHOU, China, August 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Major Threat Treatable With StatC(TM); FDA-Approved Drugs to Begin Testing in U.S. Animal Models An internationally renowned avian influenza expert today hailed "encouraging and exciting" results from exper...

Renowned NJ-Based Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Team Completes 5,000th Successful Procedure

VATS Procedure Pioneers, Thoracic Group, P.A., Deliver Faster Recovery, Fewer Complications for Patients Requiring Chest Surgery SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Thoracic Group, P.A. (http://www.thoracicgroup.com ), a provider of general thoracic surgical services and a national leade...

Cliff Consulting, Inc. Adds Two Influential Former Executives to Its Team - Banker Mary P. Carryer and Healthcare IT Leader Robert Goldstein

OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Former banking executive Mary P. Carryer and former healthcare IT executive Robert Goldstein have joined Cliff Consulting, Inc., ( http://www.cliffconsulting.net ). Cliff Consulting (CCI) provides highly experienced project leadership to corporations and...

DARPA awards research team $1.2M grant to study surface enhanced Raman scattering

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 17, 2008 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to an interdisciplinary team of Harvard University researchers to study surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for the first phase of a potential three-year effort. If all...

Cytopia Strengthens Scientific Team With US-Based Drug Development Specialist

US Office Relocation to California MELBOURNE, Australia, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytopia (ASX: CYT) announced today the appointment of Dr. Devron Averett as Chief Scientific Advisor to the company. Based in California, USA, Dr. Averett will work closely with the company's ...

CSC and HealthTrio Team to Offer Portal and Personal Health Record Solution

FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC ) today announced that it will team with HealthTrio LLC to add portal and personal health record (PHR) solutions to CSC's FirstPortfolio offering for health plans and other payer clients. The added components include HealthTrio connect...

HDSA-San Diego's Team 2CureHD Continues its Race to Cure Huntington's Disease

After overcoming incredible odds and raising more than $120,000 in the prestigious Race Across America the past two years, Team 2CureHD is suiting-up again SAN DIEGO, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, Renato Shaffer will begin riding h...

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Expands Development Leadership Team to Focus on Late-Stage Development of Voreloxin (Formerly SNS-595)

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNSS ) today announced the expansion of its late-stage development leadership team with the appointment of industry veterans Steven B. Ketchum, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President, Research and De...

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...

Lorus Therapeutics Strengthens Its Senior Management Team Through Internal Promotions

TORONTO, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Lorus Therapeutics Inc. ("Lorus") (TSX: LOR; AMEX: LRP), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated in the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of cancer, announced today that it has streng...

Kiwa and Huaxing Set Up Preparatory Team for New Joint-venture Company

BEIJING and CLAREMONT, Calif., Apr 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KWBT), ("the Company" and "Kiwa") announced that on Apr 15, 2008 Mr. Ruijun Li, General Manager of Huaxing Animal Medicine Co., Ltd., met with Mr. Wei Li, Kiwa C...

Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible, U. of I. team reports

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ratio too poor, sample preparation too complex or sam...