Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+ Client Strong Tool Lands Multimillion Dollar Deal With GE Healthcare

CLEVELAND, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By diversifying its customer base with the assistance of the Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+, Strong Tool Company , has landed a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract with GE Healthcare. Strong Tool, a distributor of metalworking products and ...

WVU Announces Creation of Multimillion Dollar Pediatric Research Institute

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- West Virginia University announced today the creation of the multimillion dollar WVU Pediatric Research Institute. The institute builds on a strong history of pediatric research at WVU. "We are exhilarated to be able to take our research t...

ECRFPlus Achieves Milestone Multimillion Dollar Enterprise Agreement With CRO and Launches e-CRF+(TM): a CTMS and EDC Web Platform With ECG Analysis and Cardiac Safety Module.

Seattle-based software company provides "total eSolution" to clinical trials industry. ISSAQUAH, Wash., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- ECRFPlus, a software company focused on developing web-based integrated clinical trials management systems (CTMS), announced today it has ...

University of South Florida receives new multimillion award to assess juvenile diabetes treatments

Tampa, FL (July 31, 2008) -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded $128 million to the University of South Florida research team led by Jeffrey Krischer, PhD, to coordinate worldwide studies on the prevention and treatment of juvenile diabetes. This latest funding, a seven-year award, supp...

NIH awards Einstein multimillion dollar grant to extend studies of exceptional longevity

Sept. 17, 2007 -- (BRONX, NY) -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been awarded a grant of more than $9.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to further the medical schools study of centenarians and the biology of aging. Led by Dr. Nir Barzilai, directo...

MedThink Hires Joe Conwell as Executive Creative Director

...ork includes Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, Lipton Tea and Mars. Among his accomplishments, Conwell helped propel a fledgling agency in Atlanta into a multimillion dollar company, reeling in large corporate accounts such as First Union, Wilkinson Sword, Scripto and Sunbeam. Conwell's health care advertisi...

Community Hospitals: Dying Breed or Community Cornerstone?

...ity hospital in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 2008, overcoming regulatory and financial hurdles. Yet the hospital closed nine months later following a multimillion judgment against the hospital's board dating to the facility's prior ownership. "America needs successful community hospitals," Burnette adds...

Bausch & Lomb Kicks Off U.S. Consumer Online Marketing Campaign for SofLens(R) Daily Disposable Contact Lenses

... ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch & Lomb has initiated a national multimillion dollar consumer online marketing campaign surrounding the U.S. launch of SofLens (R) daily disposable contact lenses. This multi-faceted campaign ...

U study shows MRI-based method holds promise for predicting treatment outcomes in patients with AF

...the first in the world to be able to ablate using a catheter custom-made to be compatible with MRI. Next month, University Health Care will open a new multimillion dollar clinical and research lab, which will be the first in North America to provide real-time DE-MRI for treating patients with AF. ...

TRICAST, Inc. and Gorman Health Group Form Partnership to Fully Support Medicare Part D Oversight

... benefits are captured by the complex pricing and management of this benefit," says Greg Rucinski , TRICAST President & CEO. "Our clients manage multimillion dollar drug spends and complex utilization issues. TRICAST's approach provides a sentinel effect of clarity, accountability and financial opportunity...

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New nanoscale process created by UCSB scientists will help computers run faster and more efficiently

...these nanostructures, whereas the standard photolithographic technique, shining light onto the wafer is a top down engineering approach that requires multimillion dollar equipment. ...

The Year Ahead in IT

...ll get along. But the rest of it: Expect it in 2004. 4. Simple becomes the watchword of Enterprise IT environments. LAST YEAR: The days of multimillion dollar, multi-month enterprise application implementations are over, and companies like Siebel should be concerned. Great, flexible, enterprise-class ...

Wisconsins tax system must adapt to meet changing technology needs

...ified software. Unlike off-the-shelf software programs, modified software is not subject to sales tax. In the Menasha case, the company purchased a multimillion dollar company software package from the German company SAP in the mid-1990s. Menasha then used consultants and SAP personnel to adapt it for its own ...

EraGen cystic fibrosis test to be distributed worldwide through Bayer

... EraGen, declined to disclose the exact financial terms of the agreement, but did feel it was fair to say expectations for the partnership were for "a multimillion dollar opportunity for EraGen." EraGen pioneered its core technology an expanded genetic information system, or AEGIS, which is a molecular diagno...

Wisconsin aims to keep up in changing stem-cell world

...on Monday said that the governor believes in the cells' prospects and supports the passing of the new bill. Doyle has also sponsored the creation of a multimillion dollar research center on the UW-Madison campus to advance biotechnology work. "There's no question about the tremendous potential of stem cell res...

Mirus Bio, Pfizer enter multimillion-dollar research agreement

... an effort to address the lack of an effective delivery method in the emerging field of RNA interference, Mirus Bio Corp. has entered into a two-year, multimillion dollar agreement with Pfizer, Inc. to develop gene silencing methods in animal models. Russell Smestad, president of Mirus Bio, said the lack of ef...