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Science Students Turn Out, Tune Up at Career Fair
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Hamner Institutes Researcher Receives $2.1M Grant
A Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences researcher has received a five-year, $2.1 million federal grant to improve asthma treatment. Dr. Yin Chen, an assistant investigator in the Division of Translational Biology, will use the grant money to study mucous cell development.
Tranzyme Pharma Begins Phase I Trial for Gastroparesis Treatment
Tranzyme Pharma of Durham has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin a Phase I safety and tolerability trial for its gastroparesis drug candidate.
LabCorp Acquires Utah-Based Tandem Labs
Tandem Labs will continue to operate under its existing name with its current employees and management structure but as LabCorp.'s Esoterix clinical trials group.
TransTech Pharma Acquires Novo Nordisk Treatment Programs
TransTech Pharma of High Point acquired all rights from Novo Nordisk to a portfolio of drug candidates under development to treat metabolic disorders. This portfolio includes receptor antagonists, agonists and inhibitors.
Chimerix, Merial Collaborate on Animal Health Drug Screening
Durham-based drug development firm Chimerix and the British animal health firm Merial Limited have signed an agreement under which Merial will screen a Chimerix chemical library for animal health drug leads.
ECU Wins Bioprocess Engineering Teaching Grant
A team of East Carolina University professors from the department of engineering received a National Science Foundation grant totaling more than $136,000 to design and develop new bioprocess engineering teaching methods for undergraduate students.
McMahan Trading Administration for Academia as WCU Dean
Robert McMahan Jr., Gov. Mike Easley's senior adviser for science and technology, and executive director of the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, is leaving those jobs. He will head west to become dean of Western Carolina University's Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology.
In Focus
Science Students Turn Out, Tune Up at Career Fair
Even though North Carolina boasts world-class efforts in worker training, sometimes the workers-to-be need a boost toward their first job.
The Biomanufacturing and Pharmaceutical Training Consortium — a partnership of industry, academic, government and non-profit organizations — just held its second internship and career fair to address that need. The venue this year was the world's largest facility for training biomanufacturing workers — the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center.
Tag along with Jim Shamp, the Biotechnology Center's news and publications editor, as he speaks with some of the students who hope to raise North Carolina's bioscience employment numbers from 54,000 to (at least) 54,001.
News from Other Sites
Tiny Dara Going Public by Crawling into Another Biotech
"The Triangle will welcome its newest publicly traded biotechnology company by the end of January, as Raleigh's Dara BioSciences joins with Point Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based public company, in a reverse merger. "
From the Triangle Business Journal
In North Carolina, Monica Doss is the Face of Entrepreneurship
"As president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development since 1986, Monica Doss has built the organization into an economic force with more than 4,000 members and 1,100 corporate partners and a $2 million annual budget."
From WRAL LocalTechWire.com
ASU Taking Look at Joining Biotech Campus
"Appalachian State University said it has begun preliminary discussions with the North Carolina Research Campus about potentially joining the Kannapolis biotech hub."
From the Charlotte Observer
Community Watch
- Precision BioSciences of Research Triangle Park has repaid a $750,000 interest-bearing loan it received from a private group of independent investors in early 2006. More.
- ALR Technologies of Winston-Salem has launched a new communications software platform that will enable health professionals to remotely monitor the health progress of their diabetic patients. More.
- Ron Newcomb has been named president and chief executive officer of Resveratrol, a Pittsboro-based nutraceutical company. More.
Please send Community Watch items to Jim Shamp.
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