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Nanotechnology: The BT Catalyst Interview with Ken Gonsalves

From Our Web Site

Liquidia Technologies Earns $2M Advanced Technology Award
The Research Triangle Park-based company received a $2 million award to develop and manufacture thin film solar cells based on the company's platform for precision nanomolding.

Ethanol Catalyzes Novozymes' Expansion
Thanks to an increased demand for ethanol, Novozymes, the world's largest enzymes producer, will expand its Franklinton facility and hire as many as 60 employees.

Construction Begins on Wet Lab Space in Winston-Salem
Work begins on the Wet Lab LaunchPad in the Richard H. Dean Biomedical Research Building at the Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem.

Register to Access ScienceDirect Journals
The Biotechnology Center's Library and Information Services is coordinating a consortium to provide desktop access to Elsevier B.V.'s Corporate Edition of ScienceDirect full-text scientific journals.

Health Decisions Growing Into New Space
Health Decisions of Durham will double the size of its corporate headquarters and the contract research organization would add 200 new jobs in the next two years.

In Focus

Nanotechnology: The BT Catalyst Interview with Ken Gonsalves

Professor Ken Gonsalves' interests lie in the small details - more specifically, in exploring and creating new technologies that can manipulate materials about 1,000 times smaller than the width of human hair.

Gonsalves is researching the synthesis, characterization and processing of novel polymers for electronic applications and biomaterials at UNC-Charlotte, where he is the Celanese Acetate Distinguished Professor of Polymer Chemistry. His research focuses on activities at the cellular and sub-cellular level.

The Nov. 5 event will explore nanotechnology’s potential impact on medicine. In this interview, Gonsalves discusses the potential of new nanotechnology-driven medical breakthroughs, increasing the public’s awareness of nanotechnology and which short-term and long-term projects in the field excite him the most.

Read the complete interview

News From Other Sites

Piedmont Triad Research Park Building Wet-Lab Space
"Wake Forest University Health Sciences is building labs that will be available for short-term leases in an effort to attract biotechnology startups."
From the Winston-Salem Journal

Green Dreams
"Producing fuel from corn and other crops could be good for the planet–if only the process didn't take a significant environmental toll. New breakthroughs could make a difference."
From National Geographic

Helping Clients Measure Up (Feature on Pharmaceutical Calibrations and Instrumentation LLC)
"What really scares everyone from big pharma to small biotechs are thermometers - or, more to the point, thermometers that don't work right."
From Triangle Business Journal

Salix Scores French Licensing Deal
"Salix Pharmaceuticals will license the French marketing rights to its bowel cleansing drug Osmoprep, netting the company a potential $1 million in milestone payments plus royalties on sales."
From Triangle Business Journal

Community Watch

• Australia-based Anatomics will open a new production facility at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. The company constructs surgical biomodels and patient specific craniofacial implants.
• Chelsea Therapeutics International of Charlotte filed a shelf registration to periodically sell up to $60 million common and preferred stock, according to BioWorld Today.
• Entegrion of Research Triangle Park will showcase Stasilon- FR at the Emergency Medicine Today Conference, Oct. 5-10 in Greensboro.
• Orthofix International N.V. has bought the intellectual-property rights related to Inswing spinal technology. The product alleviates leg and back pain suffered by individuals with lumbar spinal stenosis. The Netherlands Antilles-based Orthofix has its U.S. headquarters in Huntersville
• Gary Salamido, director of state government affairs for GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina, has been named to the Wake Technical Community College Board of Trustees.
• The national Small Business Innovation Research Program named John Ujvari of Chapel Hill as one of the 17 winners of the 2007 Tibbetts Award. The honor recognizes high achievement within the organization.

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This newsletter was sent on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. For the latest North Carolina biotechnology industry headlines, please visit the news section of our Web site.