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Health Robotics Announces American Joint Venture With i.v.SOFT

BOZEN, Italy, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that it has embarked in a joint venture with i.v.SOFT in order to market, implement, and support its I.V. Workflow Engine and related software automation modules to hospitals and infusion centers in North America. One of its...

Texas Health Resources and Medfinders, Inc. Form Joint Venture to Recruit and Manage Contract Medical Professionals

New organization aims to meet challenges of recruiting and retaining nurses and allied healthcare professionals to improve patient care ARLINGTON, Texas, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Health Resources and Medfinders, Inc., have formed a joint venture designed...

NEA Portfolio Companies Selected as Zero2IPO Venture 50 and China Entrepreneur 'Rising Stars' Honorees

BEIJING, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm, today announced that four of its China-based portfolio companies were named to the Zero2IPO 2009 Venture 50 list: CITIC Pharmaceuticals, LianLian Pay, LineKong and Novast Pharmaceuti...

Emerging Washington State Health Care Model Secures $7.5 Million in Venture Capital

SEATTLE, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Qliance Medical Management Inc., which operates insurance-free direct primary care clinics -- also known as "direct medical homes" -- in Washington State, today announced it has closed a $4 million funding round from three institutional venture capital firms, led by...

Pointer Announces Negotiations by Shagrir for Formation of a Joint Venture With a Third Party for the Provision of Services to Insurance Companies in the Field of Dental Care

ROSH HAAYIN, Israel, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pointer Telocation Ltd. (Nasdaq Capital Market: PNTR, Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange: PNTR) - a leading developer, manufacturer and operator of high-end technology and products for AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) solutions for stolen vehicle ret...

MIT is pleased to announce that it has signed the Joint Venture agreement with its Chinese partners and has received an initial order of 120 units for Animal vaccination

DENVER, CO, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Medical International Technology Inc. (MDLH. PK) ( http://www.mitcanada.ca http://www.mitinvest.ca ), MIT is pleased to announce that it has signed the Joint Venture Agreement with its Chinese partners. MIT president Mr. Karim Menassa has returne...

Winner Medical Establishes Joint Venture With West China Hospital in Chengdu, China

SHENZHEN, China, May 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Winner Medical Group Inc.'s (OTC Bulletin Board: WMDG; "Winner Medical", or the "Company") wholly-owned subsidiary, Winner Industries (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., "Winner Shenzhen", and Chengdu Likang Industries Co., Ltd., "Likang", today announced the est...

U.S. Venture Investment Lowest in 11 Years, Down 50% to $3.9 Billion in First Quarter

Dow Jones VentureSource: Investment at Lowest Level Since 1998, Deals at a 13-Year Low; VCs Making Choice Investments, Concentrating on Established Companies SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- New data from Dow Jones VentureSource shows that the U.S. venture capital indust...

Foundation Radiology Group Raises $10 Million in Venture Funding Led by Chrysalis Ventures

PITTSBURGH, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Foundation Radiology Group (FRG), a provider of diagnostic imaging professional services to hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, urgent care centers, and long-term acute care institutions, announced today that it has raised $10 million in the company's ...

Houlihan Smith to Host Illinois Venture Capital Association Luncheon Seminar on Midwest Healthcare Investing

CHICAGO, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Houlihan Smith & Company, Inc. will host an upcoming Illinois Venture Capital Association luncheon seminar on "Healthcare Investing: Midwest Home-Grown Successes." The event will be held at the UBS Tower, One North Wacker Drive in Chicago, at 11:30 a...

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Foundation Venture Capital Group Invests in UMDNJ Company Working to Improve Leukemia Treatments

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year in the United States more than 138,000 people are diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. These new cases account for 10 percent of the new total cancer cases in the U.S. per year. For several types of leukemia, the survival rate has ...

ESBATech Raises Additional CHF 23M (USD 22M), Extending Series B Venture Financing

Positive Results to Date Drive Decision to Expand its Proprietary Therapeutic Pipeline ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ESBATech AG, a leading developer of antibody fragment therapeutics, today announced that the company has raised an additional CHF 23M (...

Smithfield Sends Update to Employees on Testing Process at Veracruz Joint Venture

SMITHFIELD, Va., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- C. Larry Pope, President and Chief Executive Officer of Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD ), sent the following update to all employees on the progress of the testing being conducted at its joint venture operation in Veracruz: To Our Employees: Th...

NOVAVAX Achieves Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Production Milestone

...ity is subject to extensive validation and FDA inspections, which may result in delays and increased costs; the success of the Company's foreign joint venture and licensing agreements; the Company's ability to enter into future collaborations with industry partners and governments and the terms, timing and s...

R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. Completes Phase 1 Clinical Study on RK-023

... the purpose of marketing and R&D of drugs. Led by Dr. Yukihiko Mashima, Representative Director and President of R-Tech Ueno, this pharmaceutical venture enterprise has been engaged in the development of new drugs under the theme of "Physician-Oriented New Drug Innovation" and has targeted at ophthalmol...

Cognition Therapeutics Closes Series A Financing to Advance Drug Candidates for Alzheimer's Disease

... About Ogden CAP , LLC Ogden CAP, LLC is a New York company that has investments is a wide variety of asset classes, including venture capital. Over the past two years Ogden CAP, LLC has invested in 10 early stage companies. Besides its investment in Cognition, Ogden CAP, LLC has two...

Elbit Imaging Ltd. Announces - Swiss Team Uses InSightec's ExAblate(R) 4000 Brain System to Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders

...ocated in Eastern Europe and in India; and (v) Other Activities - (a) The distribution and marketing of fashion apparel and accessories in Israel; (b) venture capital investments; and (c) investments in hospitals, and farm and dairy plants in India, which are in preliminary stages. Any forward-looking...

Relievant Medsystems Announces Completion of $20 Million Financing

...genthaler Ventures Morgenthaler Ventures is one of the country's premier venture capital firms with a track record of partnering with more than 300 emerging...nthaler.com About Canaan Partners Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm specializing in early-stage life science and information techn...

Calixa Therapeutics Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Its Antibiotic, CXA-101, in Patients with Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

...fections, which are usually caused by gram-negative pathogens". Eckard Weber, president and chief executive officer of Calixa and partner at the venture capital firm Domain Associates, LLC said, "With the continually increasing incidence of serious and life-threatening infections caused by resistant gr...

ALP Life Sciences, LLC Announces Nanoveson(TM) Patent Filing and Whitepaper Availability on Proposed Therapy for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Comorbid Diseases

... for therapy, diagnostics and drug metabolism testing. Relationships with medical research foundations, public institutes of health, and life sciences venture capital firms are also being evaluated. Interested parties should contact ALP Life Sciences, LLC. ...

Venture in Medical Dictionary

IVP

...r and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe ... Institutional venture Partners , one of the premier later-stage venture capital ... Inter-Varsity Press , the publishing wings of the Universities...

Venture in Biological News

Stanford's Woods Institute awards new round of Environmental Venture Projects

The Woods Institute for the Environment has awarded four new Environmental Venture Projects (EVP) grants for interdisciplinary research aimed at finding practical solutions promoting global sustainability. Four Stanford University faculty teams will receive a total of $791,692 over the next ...

Clear(R) Secures $44.4 Million in Venture Funding

New Investor Spark Capital Leads Round with Additional Funding by Syncom Venture Partners and Participation from Existing Investors Including Lockheed Martin, GE Security, Baker Capital and Lehman Brothers. NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear(R), the fast pass for airport security, has...

New round of Environmental Venture Projects from Stanford's Woods Institute

Five faculty research teams will receive a total of $781,691 over the next two years for projects designed to solve some of the world's most serious sustainability challenges, from salmon farming in Chile to farmland irrigation in California. The five teams include 22 faculty members representing...

Argonne-University of Chicago joint venture bolsters genomic sequencing capabilities

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 9, 2008) The Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology (IGSB), a joint venture of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has acquired two new instruments that provide an enhanced ability to sequence genomes more quickl...

Speaker, judges set for Global Venture Challenge

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 12, 2008 -- Noted green energy entrepreneur K.R. Sridhar will be the keynote speaker at this years Global Venture Challenge, a business competition and venture forum to be held April 2-4 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The focus of this years event is on energy-related...

UNC nanotech spin-off forms new venture with Siemens

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy Philly cheesesteak sandwich. It was 2000. Otto Zhou was t...

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

...Laser Weapon Production Plant II-44 Jenoptik and Trumpf to Form a Joint venture II-44 JMAR Supplies BriteLight Laser Heads to LLNL II-44 GSI Starts...Cobolt Builds New State-of-Art Facility II-46 Laser Energetics to Joint venture with Lantis Laser II-46 IPG Photonics Bags Supply Contract from US Navy...

Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow

...dical Center, could receive up to $10,000 in seed funding from ASME. And that's just the beginning. All finalists get to pitch their inventions to venture capitalists and "angel investors" who will be in attendance to get their hands on the next big thing. "The IShow is known for picking the cream of ...

Partnership to accelerate Trudeau Institute discoveries to patient care

...services to Trudeau, including market evaluation, intellectual property evaluation and protection, business development, marketing, licensing, and new venture formation. The arrangement provides Trudeau with access to HRI professional staff and resources both in technology transfer and sponsored research...

Yellowfin tuna biz concept a winner

...-up and $3,000 in the competition's High-Potential venture category. His venture, Blue Ocean Aquaculture, foc...ure Program, won first place in the High-Potential venture category for their sustainable aquaculture concept...at included business executives, entrepreneurs and venture investors. The winners were announced at an awards...

Venture in Biological Technology

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Launches Joint Venture With Novavax in India

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX ) and Cadila Pharmaceuticals today announced the launch of their joint venture in India under the agreement signed between the two companies in March 2009. This joint venture, called CPL Biologicals Pvt. Ltd., will d...

AFFiRiS AG: 1st Place in Venture Capital & Private Equity Awards for MIG Fonds and AFFiRiS

VIENNA, Austria, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- MIG Fonds and AFFiRiS AG are this year's winners of the 2009 Venture Capital & Private Equity Award competition, hosted by the industry magazine Boerse-Express and Junge Industrie. The award recognised the long-standing association between the Germa...

Victhom announces completion of joint venture agreement with Otto Bock for Neurobionix activities

QUEBEC, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Following the announcement on April 30, 2009, of the execution of a partnership agreement between Victhom Human Bionics Inc. ("Victhom", TSX: VHB) and Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH ("Otto Bock"), Victhom announced today the completion of the transaction contemp...

Cynvec to Present at The 2009 New York Venture Summit

- Company Selected as a Top Innovator - NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cynvec LLC, a privately held biotechnology company focused on developing novel cancer therapies that harness the apoptotic ability of the sindbis viral vector, today announced that Frank Stonebanks, President and Ch...

Roche Venture Fund, Enterprise Ireland Commit EUR3.3 M to Opsona Series B Financing

DUBLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Completed Series B Total Stands at EUR21.3 m Opsona Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced that Roche Venture Fund and Enterprise Ire...

UMass Boston Opens Venture Development Center to Expand R&D Activity

Facility to Foster Faculty and Student Research, Partnering with Industry Boston (Vocus) May 1, 2009 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston today officially opened a cutting-edge Venture Development Center that will significantly expand the university's research ...

Victhom and Otto Bock sign partnership agreement to establish joint venture for Neurobionix activities

Concurrent restructuring of outstanding convertible debentures of Victhom to be completed by way of plan of arrangement QUEBEC, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Victhom Human Bionics Inc. ("Victhom", TSX: VHB) and Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH ("Otto Bock") announced today the execution on Apr...

NexGen Biofuels Ltd Signs Letter of Intent for the Purchase of World Venture Management, Inc. Assets and the Sale of its Current Business

PETACH TIKVA, Israel, April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NexGen Biofuels Ltd. (OTCBB: NXGNF.OB), today announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent with World Venture Management Inc., a Nevada based company (herein referred to as ("WVM" ) and Mac Bioventures, Inc. The transaction...

Cynvec to Present at the BIO National Venture Conference

NEW YORK, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Cynvec LLC, a privately held biotechnology company focused on developing novel cancer therapies that harness the apoptotic ability of the sindbis viral vector, today announced that Frank Stonebanks, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the BIO N...

Merck Serono Launches Strategic Venture Capital Fund

- New Venture Capital Fund Will Invest in Biotech Start-up Companies Focused on Merck Serono's Core Therapeutic Areas GENEVA, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today the formation of 'Merck Serono Ventures', a strategic, cor...

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Venture in Biological Products

prOTOF 2000 MALDI O-TOF Mass Spectrometer from PerkinElmer

Description:... The new MALDI O-TOF creates a new category for MALDI. It is based on an orthogonal platform that has been licensed to the PerkinElmerSCIEX joint venture from the University of Manitoba. As the first single MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer with an orthogonal design and collisional cooling, the prOTOF ...
Company:PerkinElmer

Venture in Biological Definition

Human Genome Project

... undertaking at least as early as 1985 2 . Eight years after the HGP was being initiated, an identical quest was initiated separately with private venture capital by a company called Celera Genomics (founded by Craig Venter ) while the HGP was still being pursued. Celera Genomics used a newer, albeit ...

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Structural change

... of Structural Change ... About.Com Resources on Structural Change : None. Writing a Term Paper? ... Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. ... reasons to believe that structural change to smaller units and ... ... of growth and structural cha...

Insecta

...species of insect arranged ... Imagine a world where bugs rule! Imagine designing your own mutated bug which ... Insecta is published as a joint venture with Sierra Madre Games of Arizona. ... ...

Colony

...ntiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries,... Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 - 1691. The first settlement was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settl...