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Garry O'Grady Appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pharmaceutical Institute

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical Institute, a leading provider of specialized training solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced that Garry O'Grady has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pharmaceutical Institute. In hi...

Dr. Christopher Olivia Appointed to Foundation Radiology Group Board of Directors

PITTSBURGH, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Foundation Radiology Group (FRG), a premier provider of diagnostic imaging professional services headquartered in downtown Pittsburgh, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christopher Olivia, M.D., M.B.A., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Oliv...

WeissComm Group CEO Jim Weiss Appointed Founding Board Member and Judge of First-Ever CLIO Healthcare Awards

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- WeissComm Group today announced that its Chairman and CEO Jim Weiss , who was recently named an "Emerging Power Player" by PRWeek, has been appointed a founding advisory board member and judge of the inaugural CLIO Healthcare...

Michael Unhjem Appointed to Board of Directors for Health Integrated

TAMPA, Fla. July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Integrated, Inc., a leading provider of Health Management Solutions, today announced the appointment of Michael Unhjem as a member of its board of directors. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090709/FL43703LOGO...

ANDRES F. ALONSO, ESQ., a Partner in the Law Firm of PARKER WAICHMAN ALONSO LLP, Was Appointed Co-Lead Counsel to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Denture Cream Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2051

GREAT NECK, N.Y., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In an order filed on July 13, 2009, Judge Cecilia Altonaga, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida appointed as Lead Counsel to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Denture Cream Products Liability Litigation, Andres F....

WellPoint State Sponsored Business President Appointed Advisory Board Member of the HIMSS Board of Directors

INDIANAPOLIS, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint (NYSE: WLP ) today announced that Kevin Hayden, president of State Sponsored Business, was appointed as an Advisory Board member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board of Directors. HIMSS is...

Universal Health Services, Inc. Announces Daniel B. Silvers Appointed to Board of Directors

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS ) announced today that Daniel B. Silvers has been appointed to its Board of Directors. He becomes the eighth member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Silvers is currently President of Hayground Co...

Dr. John Mach Appointed Chief Medical Officer at XLHealth

BALTIMORE, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- XLHealth, owner of one of the nation's largest Medicare chronic condition special needs plans and a leader in improving the quality of care for seniors with chronic illness, today announced the appointment of John R. Mach, Jr., M.D., to chief medical of...

Richard A. Meier Appointed to STAAR Surgical Board of Directors

Former President and COO of Advanced Medical Optics Brings Significant Industry Background to STAAR's Board MONROVIA, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA ), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable lenses and related ophthalmic product...

Ted Karkus Appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer Of The Quigley Corporation

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quigley Corporation, (Nasdaq: QGLY ) , www.quigleyco.com , today announced that Ted Karkus, Chairman of the Board of The Quigley Corporation, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr...

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David Feldman, M.D. Appointed Co-Principal Investigator of DuraHeart(TM) Left Ventricular Assist System U.S. Clinical Trial

Joins Two Noted Cardiothoracic Surgeons to Lead Pivotal Trial ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Terumo Heart Inc. today announced that it has appointed David Seth Feldman, MD/PhD, FACC, FAHA to be the Co-Principal Investigator for its Bridge-to-Transplant trial in the United States, ...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Results of 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting

...cted seven nominees for directors of the company to serve until the 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified. They are: Donald Hildebrand, Andrew Kandalepas, Dean Kollintzas, Robert McNally, Harriet Robinson, John Spencer and Peter Tsolinas. A...

Logical Therapeutics Appoints Peter A. Lankau as CEO and Director

...hnology company focused on the development of products that treat diseases associated with inflammation, today announced that Peter A. Lankau has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, and has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Lankau was most recently President and CEO of Endo Pharmaceuti...

Innocoll Announces Dosing of Last Patient in Second US Phase 3 Clinical Trial to Investigate GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections in Colorectal Surgery Patients

...olment in the first phase 3 trial being conducted in diabetic and/or obese patients undergoing cardiac surgery closed earlier this month. Innocoll has appointed Duke University's Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) as the Study Coordinating Center for both phase 3 trials. Dr. Michael Myers, Innocoll...

Poniard Pharmaceuticals Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2008 Financial Results and Provides a Corporate Update

...loan facility with GE Healthcare Financial Services and Silicon Valley Bank. New CFO: In February 2009, Greg Weaver was appointed Poniard's new chief financial officer and senior vice president. Mr. Weaver brings 17 years of experience in executive financial management to the Com...

Innocoll Announces Dosing of Last Patient in US Phase 3 Clinical Trial to Investigate GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections in Cardiac Surgery Patients

...enrolment in a second phase 3 trial being conducted in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery is expected to close later this month. Innocoll has appointed Duke University's Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) as the Study Coordinating Center for both phase 3 trials. Dr. Michael Myers, Innocoll...

Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. by the Law Firm of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP

... if you so choose. A lead plaintiff is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the Court must determine that the class member's claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will...

Savient Announces FDA's Advisory Panel to Review Pegloticase for Treatment-Failure Gout Patients

...announced that its biologics license application (BLA) for pegloticase for treatment-failure gout will be reviewed by the Arthritis Advisory Committee appointed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on March 5, 2009 as required for a drug of a new therapeutic class. Savient submitted its BLA ...

Duska Therapeutics Completes Corporate Name Change to Cordex Pharma

...r symbol, Cordex announced several other corporate changes. The Company has appointed MorisonCogen, LP of Bala Cynwyd, PA, as its independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2008. Cordex also appointed DirectTransfer, LLC as its stock transfer agent, effective immediately. ...

AAOMS Updates BRONJ Position Paper

... of these cases indicated that bisphosphonate therapy was a common thread. In 2006, the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons appointed the Task Force on BRONJ to review the existing literature and prepare a position paper that synthesized the findings for the dental and medical commun...

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Canadian Health Libraries Association

... David S. Crawford from McGill University was appointed to chair this group and authorised to select its m...ssociation of Law Librarians and had recently been appointed Health Sciences Librarian at Dalhousie University...ASLIS. In February 1976, Philippe Lemay , recently appointed to head the HSRC , replaced Ann Nevill. In June ...

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Pellagra

... in the first stages, sometimes ... Includes description of the illness, its progress, and treatment options. In 1914, the surgeon general appointed him to tackle the crisis of pellagra . Pellagra had been a low-level problem throughout the South for years, but crop ... The Conquest of Pella...

Pandemic

...worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which ... The university has appointed a pandemic planning council which will monitor the ... Pandemic influenza, however, has occurred three times in the last century, the ... The ...

Hus

... unknown causes, (ie ideopathic Atypical HUs ) ... Hus distinguished himself through sermons that "notched up" a homiletical ... Soon Hus was appointed chaplain to the royal court, confessor to the queen, and ... ...

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Restoring a natural root signal helps to fight a major corn pest

...sing insecticides, the use of natural enemies of the corn rootworm could be much more environmentally friendly," says Jrg Degenhardt, who was recently appointed professor at the University of Halle. While working in the group of Jonathan Gershenzon at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena he ha...

2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists receive Presidential Early Career Award

...shington School of Medicine. He was nominated for the honor by the National Science Foundation, which supports his work. Earlier this year he also was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. Malik studies genetic conflict. He sees battles raging within a cell's nucleus as genes jo...

Shaw to receive prestigious honor for plant pathology research

...athology and microbiology department as assistant professor in 2003. He is expected to be promoted to associate professor in September. He is jointly appointed with Texas AgriLife Research. ...

How mitochondria get their membranes bent

...erstanding of mitochondrial function in general. Recently, in cooperation with other research teams, the group of Prof. Andreas Reichert, who has been appointed as professor for Mitochondrial Biology to the Goethe University within the Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes in 2007, has identified two ...

The BBVA Foundation presents its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

...nce and Management; Steven Holl, in the Arts; The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (MIT), in Development Cooperation. The prize juries, appointed by the BBVA Foundation after conferring with the CSIC, were made up of distinguished international experts from the academic, cultural and economic wo...

Countries unite to reduce animal use in product toxicity testing worldwide

...pean counterpart, is located. Anklam has signed the agreement as representative on behalf of the EU. Her colleague Joachim Kreysa, Ph.D., the recently appointed head of ECVAM, further remarked, "I am enthusiastic about the agreement. Our collaboration will help to identify and embrace scientifically sound and ...

$10 million Simons Foundation gift supports new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study

...s Leibler, head of the Laboratory of Living Matter at Rockefeller, has been appointed to a joint professorship as part of this initiative. Leibler is interested ...ckefeller University in 2001 as Gladys T. Perkin Professor. In 2003, he was appointed one of the first Tri-Institutional professors at Rockefeller, Weill Cornell...

CSC Awarded $570 Million IT Services Contract by UK Identity and Passport Service

...port Service. "CSC has shown it is superbly placed to deliver this contract and we are delighted they are working with us." "CSC is pleased to be appointed by the UK government to provide services and expertise for this major program," said Nick Wilson, president of CSC's operations in the UK. "We look fo...

Public trust doctrine could aid management of US oceans

...t, unifying them for the first time under a common mandate to manage the gulf's resources sustainably." Many analysts, including the presidentially appointed U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, have simply assumed that the public trust doctrine already extends to these federal waters, notes co-author Stephen R...

International climate change researchers meet, review latest findings

...uments/jsc-30_draft_agenda.pdf WHO: Among some of the international participants available for informal interviews: Ghassem Asrar , newly appointed director of the World Climate Change Research Programme, and former NASA associate administrator of the Office of Earth Science deputy associate admin...

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Eamonn Hobbs Appointed President & CEO of Delcath Systems, Inc.

NEW YORK, July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH ), a medical technology company testing its proprietary treatment method for primary and metastatic cancers to the liver, announced today that Eamonn P. Hobbs, 51, a member of the Delcath Board of Directors since Octo...

FDA Appointed Arthritis Advisory Committee Recommends U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approval for KRYSTEXXA(TM) for Refractory Chronic Gout

Savient to Host Conference Call and Webcast on Wednesday, June 17 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVNT ) announced today that the Arthritis Advisory Committee appointed by the U.S. Food and Drug Admini...

Santaris Pharma Director Appointed Adjunct Professor in RNA Biology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark

COPENHAGEN, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Santaris Pharma and Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, announced today that Director of microRNA, Santaris Pharma, Sakari Kauppinen, has been appointed Adjunct Professor in RNA Biology at Copenhagen Institute of Technology. The a...

Former GE Healthcare Director, Per Foss Appointed CEO for HUNT Biosciences

LEVANGER, Norway, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- HUNT Biosciences, the commercial arm of the HUNT Study and associated biobank today announced the appointment of former GE Healthcare director Per Foss as its new CEO. The company provides pharmaceutical and healthcare companies with biomarker discove...

Paul Keim Appointed to febit's Scientific Advisory Board

Paul Keim brings deep knowledge in the field of medical microbiology, biodefense and pathogens to febit, the leader in microfluidic microarray DNA analysis technologies LEXINGTON, Mass. and HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- febit today announced the recruitment of Paul Keim, P...

Andrew Chisholm Appointed Vice President, Sales and Corporate Accounts at Accumetrics

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Accumetrics, Inc. has appointed Andrew Chisholm to the position of Vice President, Sales and Corporate Accounts. "Andrew brings the right mix of energy and expertise to Accumetrics. His experience will help us reach the next level in terms of our market pene...

Timothy I. Still Appointed CEO at Accumetrics

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Accumetrics, Inc. has appointed Timothy I. Still to the additional position of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Still has been serving in the capacity of President and Chief Operating Officer for the company since earlier this year. "Tim has the right combinati...

Robert Cantu Appointed Vice President of Pierpoint International

Leader in Diversity, Military and Campus Recruitment, and Employment Branding joins Pierpoint International as Global VP of Recruitment Operations and Diversity San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2008 -- Pierpoint International is pleased to announce the appointment of Ro...

Nader Naeymi-Rad Appointed Chief Operating Officer at Campbell Alliance

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Campbell Alliance, the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced that Nader Naeymi-Rad has been appointed Chief Operating Officer. His former role at Campbell Alliance of Senior Vice Preside...

Darius Naigamwalla Appointed Senior Vice President and Head of the Brand Management Practice at Campbell Alliance

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Campbell Alliance, the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced that Darius Naigamwalla has been appointed Senior Vice President and head of the firm's Brand Management Practice. Mr. Naigam...

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

...nstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main). Vermeer and van Leeuwenhoek were baptised the same month, in the same church. After Vermeer died, van Leeuwenhoek was appointed curator for the financial affairs of Vermeer's widow. This has led some people to believe that the two must have been friends, even though acting as a...

Eugenics

... receive far higher numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants. Influential eugenicists like Lothrop Stoddard and Harry Laughlin (who was appointed as an expert witness for the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in 1920 ) presented arguments that these were inferior races who would...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

...his caught the attention of Le Comte de Buffon who arranged for him to be appointed to the Musum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris . After years working on plants, Lamarck was appointed curator of invertebrates -- another term he coined. He began a series of...

Stem cell

...ientists felt frustrated with the restrictions. In 2002 , President Bush appointed the Council on Bioethics , an advisory group composed of 18 doctors, legal...ethics William May and biologist Elizabeth Blackburn . In their place, he appointed pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson , political scientist Dr. Dian...

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Library

...to the catalogs, information, departments, and policies of the NCSU Libraries . ... Associate Director of Textiles Library and Engineering Services appointed ... Find information about the University of Texas libraries , research tools, services, library catalog, online renewal, and resources. Incl...

Comparative anatomy

...ed to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy . ... Eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints ... and was appointed Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of ... The word " comparative " in the field of comparative anatomy is not just a ......