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Leading Alzheimer's Disease Researcher Mark A. Smith, PhD Named Scientific Advisor at Advana Science

KIRKLAND, Wash., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Advana Science ( www.advanascience.com ) announced that Mark A. Smith, PhD, a leading researcher in Alzheimer's disease, has been named scientific advisor to the Company. According to the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 16, Issue 3), Dr. Smith wa...

Direct Selling Icon, Former Presidential Advisor Doug Wead Joins XanGo

LEHI, Utah, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --- XanGo, LLC, the mangosteen beverage category creator and market leader, announced today that direct selling icon, former presidential advisor, philanthropist and motivational speaker Doug Wead has joined XanGo as a full-time consultant. Wead brings to XanGo deep...

Sumitomo to Act As Advisor to ProMetic for Japanese Market

MONTREAL and NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI ) ("ProMetic") and Sumitomo Corporation of America ("SCOA") announces that it has retained the services of SCOA and Summit Pharmaceuticals International ("SPI"), both wholly owned subsidiaries of Sumitomo Co...

Global Advisor and Speaker Explains Middle East Investors, Politics, Culture

NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International advisor and speaker Michael Morgan is helping U.S., European, Asian and other clients better understand Middle Eastern and Islamic investors, business, politics and culture. He's also helping clients tap into one of the most active i...

TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. Hires Advisor to Evaluate Strategic Alternatives

LA JOLLA, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPTX ) today announced that it has hired Merriman Curhan Ford as its financial advisor to assist in the evaluation of strategic options, including the possible sale of the Company or its assets. About Torrey...

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals' Scientific Advisor Receives American Chemical Society's Highest Award

M. Frederick Hawthorne, Ph.D. Honored for Distinguished Service in the Field of Chemistry EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Alternext: NBY) today announced that world-renowned scientist M. Frederick Hawthorne, Ph.D., a member of the Com...

Haemacure Reports First Quarter 2009 Results and Hires Advisor for the Sale or Merger of the Company

HAE:TSX MONTREAL, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Haemacure Corporation (TSX : HAE) released today the results of its first quarter ended January 31, 2009. Results Revenues amounted to $19,226, as compared to $24,674 for the same quarter last year. Revenues were exclusively derive...

K2 Advisors Named Investment Advisor by Highland Good Steward Management

STAMFORD, Conn., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Highland Good Steward Management ("HGSM") today announced it has selected K2 Advisors, L.L.C. ("K2"), a Connecticut-based investment adviser, as a sub adviser to Highland Good Steward Management ("HGSM"), an Alabama-based investment adviser. HGSM focuses ...

CSC Introduces HealthSpace Advisor Benchmarking Tool

Application to Help Improve Hospital Efficiency FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC ) today introduced HealthSpace Advisor, a Web-based benchmarking tool that enables hospitals to analyze how effectively they use space in key revenue generating areas. The application a...

Dr Nabil Dib Takes on Special Advisor Role to the Stemedica Board of Directors

Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc. announces leading stem cell specialist Dr Nabil Dib, MD as Special Advisor to its Board of Directors. Dr Dib is President of the International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research (ISCTR) and Director of Cardiovascular and Stem Cell Consultants (CSC...

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General Wesley Clark Joins Immtech as Consulting Strategic Advisor

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: IMM ) is pleased to announce today that General Wesley Clark (ret.) has joined Immtech as a strategic advisor. General Clark will provide counsel to Immtech's management team as the Company develops its drug pro...

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

...mbination of cutting-edge technology, influential and experienced leadership, and large clinical and commercial potential," said Robert Gailus, senior advisor to Ogden CAP. "Alzheimer's disease is a major health epidemic that places increasing strains on the world's healthcare systems as the population ages...

Cystic Fibrosis - Liposomal Tobramycin Receives Second Orphan Drug Designation Within Weeks

..., Fluidosomes(TM)-tobramycin could become a particularly effective treatment for B. cepacia infections. Prof. Dr. Miguel A Valvano, MD, Medical advisor to Axentis Pharma, comments on the development: "Burkholderia cepacia is almost always multi-resistant to antibiotics and this, in conjunction with th...

Studies Presented at AACR Annual Meeting Highlight Multiple Immunomodulatory Mechanisms of Peregrine's PS-Targeting Antibodies

...dies in preclinical and clinical studies," said Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, a scientific advisor to Peregrine and co-author of one of the AACR presentations. "These presentations provide additional insight into the mechanisms that act to selectiv...

Roundtable Calls President's Embryonic Stem Cell Decision: Bankrupt

...ging federal policy on embryonic stem cell research, David Zanotti, CEO of the American Policy Roundtable and Dr. Charles McGowen, M.D., Chief Medical advisor for the Roundtable, issued the following statement: "The President's policy is very difficult to understand in light of years of progress in the ...

Adlyfe Strikes Translational Medicine Partnership With Wyeth Pharmaceuticals for Alzheimer's Biomarker Assay

...ing our assay, which could serve as an important tool in assessing the efficacy of amyloid-targeted therapies." Burrill LLC served as financial advisor to Adlyfe in this transaction. About Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressi...

DNA Therapeutics Closes 2.2 Million EUR Series A Financing Round

...endeavor to demonstrate the validity of our investment choices, notably through the emphasis placed on organizing output," added Eric Viaud, exclusive advisor of SEFTI. About DNA Therapeutics DNA Therapeutics SA ( http://www.dna-therapeutics.com ) headquartered in the Genopole biocluster (Evry,...

Impact Medical Solutions Announces Appointment of New Director and Corporate Update

...ation Inc., a junior gold exploration company, and CEO of Argex Silver Capital Inc., a Capital Pool Company. Mr. Billings is active as a Director and advisor to several private and public corporations. He received a Master of Business Administration degree, with honours, from the Harvard Business School ,...

Stem Cell Treatment Leader Tiantan Puhua Adds Experienced International Medical Staff for Expanding Numbers of Patients

...or growing numbers of incoming international patients. The six senior doctors include the distinguished Dr. Jiang Ping, who was named Chief Scientific advisor of Tiantan Puhua. Dr. Jiang lectured at and received his postgraduate degree from Harvard Medical School in 1997. He also worked for several years i...

Celtic Pharma Announces Update on Status of XERECEPT(R) Program Sale Planned in 2009

... be published only after presentation at these meetings. Celtic Pharma has also retained a top-tier investment bank to serve as its financial advisor in the planned sale in 2009 of Neutron Holdings Limited and its geographical subsidiaries who are the owners of the worldwide commercial rights to XER...

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Unity Real Time

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Rett Syndrome Research Trust advisor makes significant discovery

A paper published online today in Nature Neuroscience reveals the presence of methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) in glia. MeCP2 is a protein associated with a variety of neurological disorders, including Rett Syndrome, the most physically disabling of the autism spectrum disorders. The researc...

bioMETRX, Inc. Retains Global Investment Banking Firm Mesirow Financial, Inc. as Financial Advisor

JERICHO, N.Y., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- bioMETRX Inc. ("bioMETRX") (OTC Bulletin Board: BMRX), a worldwide developer and provider of biometric product design services and embedded biometric solutions, announced today that it has retained the investment banking firm Mesirow Financial I...

Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers

...tary-wing design have low maneuverability and aerodynamic efficiency. So Bunget, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at NC State, and his advisor Dr. Stefan Seelecke looked to nature. "We are trying to mimic nature as closely as possible," Seelecke says, "because it is very efficient. And, at th...

ADA releases updated position paper on vegetarian diets

...nston Craig, PhD, MPH, RD, professor and chair of the department of nutrition and wellness at Andrews University; and Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, nutrition advisor at the Vegetarian Resource Group, Baltimore, Md. The revised position paper incorporates new topics and additional information on key nutrients for...

Kelvin Lee winner of Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award

...ard, and by the designation of Distinguished Professor by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research. He serves as an advisor to a number of small and large biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. His research interests include: the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheime...

West Coast needs more research on fisheries, marine science, climate change

...us on the next step, which is prioritizing our investment in the agreed-upon highest priorities in a meaningful way," says Dr. Amber Mace, the science advisor to the California Ocean Protection Council. The document grew out of an extensive process of public workshops and surveys in all three states durin...

Not 1, but 2 kinds of males found in the invasive round goby

...cs of round goby invasive capacities", says Sigal Balshine, associate professor in the department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour and academic advisor on the study. "Our results will shed light on how populations of this invasive species are likely to grow and spread through time and space." The M...

Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS: Study

...to understand how the nervous system regulates oxygen sensitivity of cells in the adrenal gland at a basic research level," says Colin Nurse, academic advisor on the study and a professor in the department of Biology. "We speculated that chemicals released from nerves might interact with adrenal cells and ca...

NIH announces new program to develop therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases

...s that we or others discover that may treat rare diseases and turn them into actual drugs," said Christopher P. Austin, M.D., NCGC Director and Senior advisor for Translational Research to the NHGRI director. "This will still be hard work and it will take time and produce failures. Unlike traditional drug d...

UC Riverside geneticist receives highest honor from Botanical Society of America

...lso of the book Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives (John Hopkins University Press, 2003) and is scientific advisor to the movie "Basmati Blues." The 2009 BSA Merit Awards will be presented at the society's annual meeting, scheduled to take place in Snowbird, Ut...

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Neurobiological Technologies Announces Hiring of Advisor to Seek Sale of Company

EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neurobiological Technologies, Inc. (NTI(R)) (Nasdaq: NTII ) announced today that it has hired RBC Capital Markets as its exclusive financial advisor to assist in the evaluation of various options to enhance shareholder value, including a pot...

Obama Advisor Joins Connecticut and International Scientists at New Haven Stem Cell Symposium

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a dozen internationally renowned speakers, including a key bioethics advisor on the Obama transition team, will be coming to New Haven, CT to present at StemCONN 09, the international stem cell research symposium taking place March 23-24, 2009. ...

GeneNews appoints Patrick Terry as lead strategic advisor for U.S. commercialization of ColonSentry(TM)

TORONTO, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - GeneNews Limited (TSX: GEN), a company focused on developing blood-based biomarker tests for the early detection of diseases and personalized health management, today announced that it has appointed Patrick Terry as its lead strategic advisor for the U...

On-Line Medicare Advisor Saves Seniors Time, Hassle and Money

Senior-friendly 'PlanPrescriber' Software Simplifies Medicare - For Free MAYNARD, Mass., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Experion Systems today announced the latest release of their PlanPrescriber tool. Medicare has been demystified! Seniors no longer need to worry about whether they are getting the m...

Sinobiomed Retains CB Capital Partners as Financial Advisor to Maximize Shareholder Value

INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM HAS STRONG BACKGROUND IN BIOTECHNOLOGY SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sinobiomed, Inc. ("Sinobiomed", or "the Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: SOBM) is pleased to announce that it has retained CB Capital Partners, Inc. as its financial advisor to ...

Lord Lewis Moonie to Serve as Special UK Government Advisor to PharmAthene

Pursing International Market Opportunities for the Company's Medical Countermeasures ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (Amex: PIP ), a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, ...

NeuroFocus Chief Science Advisor Wins Humboldt Prize

BERKELEY, Calif., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, one of the world's leading sponsors of scientific research, announced that it has named Dr. Robert Knight as a winner of its highly prestigious Humboldt Research Award for 2008 in the area of neurobiology. It is the...

U.S. Preventive Medicine National Policy Advisor Gov. Tommy Thompson to Propose Prevention is the Solution at UBS Global Health Services Conference

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In a speech to be delivered Tuesday, February 12th, 10:30 a.m., during the UBS Global Health Services Conference at the New York Grand Hyatt Hotel, U.S. Preventive Medicine National Policy Advisor, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, will propose that pre...

Jennerex Appoints Bob Ingram Special Advisor and Hires Marty Glick as EVP, Corporate Strategy

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennerex, Inc. today announced the addition of Mr. Robert A. Ingram as Special Advisor to the Chairman and to The President & CEO, and the hiring of Mr. Marty Glick as Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy. Bob Ingram is Vice Chairman, Pharmaceutic...

ArcMesa Educators Appoints Medical Advisor and Directors to CME Development Team

Clinical Experience, Advanced Scientific Knowledge, Highlight Most Recent Growth MONROE, N.J., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcMesa Educators, an accredited provider of continuing education courses, is proud to announce the addition of three talented individuals to i...