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Trana Discovery Co-Develops tRNA Screening Assay Platform
Trana Discovery of Cary announced the development of a high-throughput screening (HTS) assay platform to easily identify new HIV treatment compounds.
Written Comments on Proposed Bio Defense Facility Due Sept. 28
The public has until Sept. 28 to send written comments to the federal Department of Homeland Security on North Carolina's bid to land the $450 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility near Butner in Granville County.
Studies Validate OncoMethylome Sciences' Cancer Test
OncoMethylome Sciences, with a facility in Durham, has published new data supporting the use of methylation markers to detect colorectal cancer.
World's Largest Center for Educating Biotech Employees Opens
A state-of the-art training center formally opened at N.C. State University Wednesday, giving North Carolina a distinct advantage in the rapidly growing and globally competitive biotechnology industry.
XinRay Systems Forms New Venture With Siemens
Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers establish a company to develop X-ray technology applicable to everything from security scanning to medical devices.
In Focus
Biotechnology Education Reaches Full Spectrum
By Jim Shamp
News and Publications Editor
The Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) - the newest weapon in North Carolina's biotechnology worker training arsenal - officially opened its doors Wednesday.
The 82,500-square-foot facility will provide hands-on training in biomanufacturing processes to current and future industry workers. Joining BTEC in the spring will be the Biotechnology Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North Carolina Central University. BRITE will provide laboratory research facilities and undergraduate and graduate degree programs in pharmaceutical science. And the North Carolina Community College System's BioNetwork program has trained students and served industry throughout the state for several years now.
Feeding into those specific training initiatives is a summer workshop program for middle school, high school and community college teachers. The workshops, sponsored by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, have trained nearly 1,400 teachers in their 20-year history. Add to that the Biotechnology Center's grants programs, pre-assembled experiment kits for the classroom and a video library, and North Carolina is providing an entire educational spectrum of biotechnology training.
Read more about North Carolina's biotechnology education programs.
News From Other Sites
State and educational officials celebrated the opening of the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center on N.C. State University's Centennial Campus. Here is a sampling of media coverage:
- Technician (North Carolina State University)
- The Daily Southerner (Tarboro)
- News and Observer (Raleigh)
- From WXII12.com (Winston-Salem)
- News 14 Carolina
- WRAL Local Tech Wire
Debate Continues Over Proposed Bio-Defense Lab
"The 520,000-square-foot lab could bring more than 1,000 construction jobs and a few hundred permanent positions."
From ABC 11 Eyewitness News and The Assocaited Press
N.C. Making Pitch to Win Coveted Lab
"At stake is a $450 million biodefense lab, a facility that North Carolina officials would love to see built on the Umstead Research Farm in Butner, a 4,000-acre tract about 25 miles north of Raleigh."
From (Raleigh) News and Observer
Biotechnology Blossoming in Region
"Former Gov. Jim Martin, now a vice president with Carolinas HealthCare System, said Friday that the Charlotte area will need to build on the research assets already in the region to attract investors."
From Concord & Kannapolis Independent Tribune
North Carolina on Cutting Edge of Biofuels Research
"Alternative fuel is just a trickle in North Carolina, but a multimillion-dollar Biofuels Center under construction in Oxford could open up the flow."
From WRAL.com
Local Work to Get Push
"The N.C. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Group will hold a conference here this week to teach scientists, physicians and businessmen about the region's tissue-engineering research."
From the Winston-Salem Journal
Fabric, Biomed Companies Teaming Up
"Carolina Narrow Fabric Co. has formed a partnership with Entegrion, a biomedical group based in Research Triangle Park, on Stasilon, a product that accelerates the clotting of blood in major external wounds through the use of bamboo and glass fibers in a woven fabric."
From the Winston-Salem Journal
Community Watch
- Leslie Alexandre, the former chief executive officer of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has joined the board of directors at Arbovax.
- Dr. John B. Buse, chief of the Endocrinology Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, has been elected president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association.
- Contract research organization Cetero Research has hired Murray Ducharme, formerly the vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for Toronto's Allied Research International, as its chief science officer.
- Christina Russell has joined the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences as director of foundation and government relations.
- Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management ranks second among the nation’s top regional business schools, according to The Wall Street Journal.
This newsletter was sent on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. For the latest North Carolina biotechnology industry headlines, please visit the news section of our Web site.
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