WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) Mourns the Tragic Loss of Its Independent Director Shawn Wang
SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX ), China's premier provider of pharmaceutical R&D outsourcing services, sadly announced today one of its independent directors, Mr. Shawn Wang, Chief Financial Officer of Baidu, passed away in an accident duri...Wireless Home Healthcare to be $4 Billion Industry by 2013
... senior independent living solutions. "Wireless is an important crossover point for the healthcare sector and high-tech industry," said Harry wang , Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates. "Device and service connectivity is the model for future home care applications, ...Cancer treatment controls macular edema related to diabetes and to cataract surgery
...mewhat less likely to stimulate DR progression, the new study suggests. Dr. wang cautions that patients who need cataract surgery may simply be at greater r...cular edemaand closely monitor diabetes and DR after cataract surgery," Dr. wang said. ...Lutonix, Inc. Announces First Patient Enrollments in Three Separate Clinical Trials
...st often results in re-intervention or surgery. About Lutonix, Inc. Lutonix, Inc., co-Founded in July 2007 by Dennis Wahr, M.D. and Lixiao wang PhD, is focused on the rapid development and commercialization of the safest and most efficacious drug coated balloon for the treatment of vascular di...Scientists discover key event in prostate cancer progression
...in 2009, along with 27,360 deaths from the disease. To conduct the study, wang working with corresponding author Dr. Myles Brown, professor of medicine at...growth of the hormone-independent prostate cancer cells. "Interestingly," wang says, "the UBE2C gene is also over-expressed in breast, lung, ovary, bladde...Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives Government Approvals for Three New Products
...nment. This is a very important step and positive progress for our business which further diversifies and complements our product portfolio," said Mr. wang Ronghua, Chairman and CEO of Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "We are well positioned to capitalize on these new growth opportunities as these approvals...Many Kids Outgrow Chronic Headaches
...nknown based on this observational study. We believe that this is the nature of chronic daily headache in adolescents as they grow into young adults," wang said. Dr. Amy Goldstein, a pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, said the new study "shows that if your child is having chron...U.S. Students' Academic Interests Tend to Wane in Middle School
...rough middle school. "This decline in both countries may reflect a poor fit between children's developing psychological needs and school settings," wang said. The study appears in the July/August issue of the journal Child Development . More information The Nemours Foundation outlines how ...Two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Award
...ology; clinical researcher William Grady, M.D., who studies the mechanisms of colorectal-cancer development; and human immunogenetics researcher Effie wang Petersdorf, M.D., whose work has helped refine the tissue-typing process, which enables bone-marrow or stem-cell transplant patients to find suitably ...Minimally Invasive Surgery Not Better for Sciatica
...reatening loss in terms of neurological function," wang said. The most common reason is to ease pain, he s...ne procedure is clearly preferable over the other, wang noted. "I use the conventional technique even thou...sferable to the United States for several reasons, wang said. For example, those who had surgery in the st...Ascenta Therapeutics Announces Multiple Presentations on AT-101 at 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting
...ct #e14537; Publication only. Mechanism of Action/Pharmacokinetics wang S, et al. AT-101 induces transcriptional up-regulation of Noxa and Puma an...m both the National Institutes of Health and the laboratory of Dr. Shaomeng wang at the University of Michigan , is focused on discovering molecules that r...Autism Genes Discovered; Help Shape Connections Among Brain Cells
...ther centers in addition to Children's Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania contributed to the discovery or replication of the findings. wang et al, "Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders," Nature , published online April 28, 2009. ( http://dx.doi.org/...Lutonix Inc. Announces $20 Million Series B Financing
...7 /PRNewswire/ -- Lutonix Inc., today announced the close of a $20 million Series B financing. Co-Founded in July 2007 by Dennis Wahr, M.D. and Lixiao wang PhD, Lutonix is a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of drug coated balloon angioplasty technology for the treatm...Novel Approach May Protect Against Heart Attack Injury
...'s Hospital; and Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Gruber, Granger, and co-authors Andrea Stout and Tao wang are members of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, of which Epstein is the scientific director. About The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The Ch...Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition
...ng in rat somatosensory cortex: laminar differences and involvement of specific interneuron types. J Neurosci. Jul 20;25(29):6845-56. Carlson G, wang Y, Alger BE. (2002) Endocannabinoids facilitate the induction of LTP in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci. Aug;5(8):723-4. Cristino L, de Petrocelli...New computer simulation helps explain folding in important cellular protein
...Wang-Landau, named for David Landau and Fugao Wang, is a Monte Carlo algorithm that has proved to be useful in studying a variety of physical systems. wang was a doctoral student at UGA and now works for the Intel Corp.) GpA is a 131-amino acid protein that spans the human red-blood cell membrane and i...2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists receive Presidential Early Career Award
...ology; clinical researcher William Grady, M.D., who studies the mechanisms of colorectal-cancer development; and human immunogenetics researcher Effie wang Petersdorf, M.D., whose work has helped refine the tissue-typing process, which enables bone-marrow or stem-cell transplant patients to find suitably ...Tummy troubles -- gastrin key in bacterial-induced stomach cancer
... To reconcile this apparent disparity, a group led by Dr. Timothy wang at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY examined the cont...e in patients infected with Helicobacter pylori ." In future studies, Dr. wang and colleagues plan to study "host factors other than gastrin [that] are al...Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors
...tumors and possibly in a wide variety of cancers," wang said. By studying flies that had a PP2A mutatio...d when we found that PP2A also suppressed tumors," wang said. Follow-up experiments showed that PP2A i...ate stem cell self-renewal and tumor development," wang said. The research team plans to uncover novel pr...The battle for CRTC2: How obesity increases the risk for diabetes
... failed to activate gluconeogenesis. Instead, it switched on genes important for combating stress and returning cells to health. On closer inspection, wang found that in this scenario CRTC2 did not bind to CREB but instead joined forces with another factor, called ATF6a. What's more, like jealous lover...The challenges of avian influenza virus: Mechanism, epidemiology and control
...structural protein of influenza virus, being the key component of the ribonucleoprotein complex. The structure of NP is revisited by Andy NG, Jia-Huai wang and Pang-Chui SHAW from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Correlations are made between the sequence conservation ...Songbird study from CSHL, CCNY provides concrete measure of biology's impact on culture
...is the product of a collaboration between Professor Partha Mitra and Haibin wang of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Olga Feher, Sigal Saar and Ofer...deo recordings of their subjects. Mitra and CSHL postdoctoral fellow Haibin wang in turn analyzed these recordings, comprising a large dataset of several te...Open access research celebrated
...s from the administration of progesterone for patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial Xiao G, Wei J, Yan W, wang W, Lu Z Critical Care 2008, 12:R61 (30 April 2008) http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/R61 This study explains how a common component of the cont...MIT: How you feel the world impacts how you see it
...d of 60 pins to deliver precisely controlled vibrations to the fingertips. This stimulator, the only one of its kind in the world, was developed by Qi wang of Georgia Institute of Technology and Vincent Hayward of Universit Pierre et Marie Curie in France. To test the effect of visual motion on the sub...Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Appoints Dr. Peng Wang as Chief Scientific Officer
NANJING, China, May 19 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Simcere Pharmaceutical Group (NYSE: SCR ), a leading manufacturer and supplier of branded generic and innovative anti-cancer pharmaceuticals in China, announced today the appointment of Dr. Peng Wang as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Wang wil...WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) Appoints Dr. Peng Wang as VP of Discovery Biology
SHANGHAI, China, May 26 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, today proudly announced that it has appointed Dr. Peng Wang as Vice...Sundia Shortens CRO Shipment Delivery Time with Express Customs Clearance in Shanghai
...Express Custom Clearance privilege granted to Sundia greatly benefits our clients with high-quality and effective service on a timely basis," said Dr. wang Xiaochuan, Sundia's Chairman and CEO. About Sundia MediTech Sundia MediTech Company is a leading integrated pharmaceutical contract res...Sanford Rose Associates Opens Minneapolis Office
...MINNETONKA, Minn., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- John H. wang has been named Managing Director of Sanford Rose A...ed to have him join our network." John H. wang says, "I'm excited and confident I can add value f...e Associates - Minneapolis office, contact John H. wang at 952.475.6877 or via e-mail at jwang@sanfordros...China Biologic Products Hosts its First Forum for Strategy and Development
...he Chinese Academy of Medical Science, and Mr. Fengshan Wang, Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Shandong University. Messrs. Zheng and wang and other domestic and international academics and experts, gathered together to discuss strategies for the development of the new China Biologic, whi...China Kangtai Cactus Biotech Retains Hawk Associates for Investor Relations Services
...site at: http://www.hawkassociates.com , featuring company updates, investor information and live financial feeds. China Kangtai CEO Jinjiang wang said, "We look forward to working with Hawk Associate, which has been providing comprehensive strategic IR services for 14 years in their roles as tru...Bioinformatics Expert Dr. Jiaan Yang Joins Sundia MediTech With Innovative PFSC Technology
...ess protein data. The success of PFSC is a big scientific breakthrough in structural biology research. Sundia's Chairman and CEO Dr. Xiaochuan wang commented that "the application of PFSC technology will bring a great impact to pharmaceutical research and drug discovery." According to her, the PF...New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data
...r the question of whether we are truly observing new phenomena, or whether our errors are so large that we cannot see that the theory still works." wang plans to use the SPAR technique on future work, and to analyze past research for potential new findings. "What may have seemed like noise could actual...Sundia and 2 Other CRO Companies Granted Express Customs Clearance Privilege in Shanghai
...e formal start of the trial operation of a new customs clearance model for CRO companies in Zhangjiang. Sundia's Chairman and CEO Dr. Xiaochuan wang and Executive VP Dr. Xiongwei Shi attended the ceremony with representatives from many biopharmaceutical companies. Ms. Liu Zhengyi, Deputy Director o...Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
...ecoming increasingly important. For their project, wang and Park purposely manufactured a deformed silica ... phonon excitations to near 40 quanta. Ultimately, wang said, the goal is to reduce that level, known as t... there is very little excitation or displacement," wang said. Reaching one quantum would require a tempera...