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SCYNEXIS Completes $13.5 Million Financing
SCYNEXIS Inc., a drug discovery and development company headquartered in Research Triangle Park, has raised $13.5 million in financing.
$100 Million Grant Initiative for Global Health Solutions
Grand Challenges Explorations, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a $100 million grant initiative that will fund bold and unconventional global health solutions.
Chelsea Therapeutics Reports Positive Results for Preclinical Study
Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. found positive results from a preclinical trial of the compound CH-4051 to treat rheumatoid arthritis. CH-4051 is the second compound from Chelsea's portfolio of metabolically inert antifolates.
Quintiles to Provide Central Lab Services in Japan
Quintiles agreement with Medca Japan extends reach in Asia.
Metabolon Signs onto Boston Study of Warfarin Gene
RTP-based Metabolon ties into Boston group's study of genetic variability in warfarin's effects.
Center Grant Named for Oliver Smithies
The grant program will now be known as the Oliver Smithies Faculty Recruitment Grant to recognize one of its earlies recipients. The announcement was made last week at a reception honoring the achievements of Smithies, other Biotechnology Center faculty recruits, and student science fair competition winners.
In Focus
Marine Blue: the New Green
The color of the year along North Carolina's coast is marine blue, thanks to a new initiative to raise awareness that being earth-friendly doesn't just include land.
MARBIONC, which is abbreviated from Marine Biotechnology in North Carolina, has launched a Go Blue initiative. Water covers about 70 percent of the earth. What lies beneath the ocean's surface hold answers for medicines, cosmetics and renewable energy. MARBIONC is at the forefront of identifing and commercializing those products here in North Carolina.
Read about the Go Blue initiative in this week's In Focus.
News from Other Sites
Officials hope state can be nanotechnology leader
The frontiers of medicine are becoming increasingly tiny - the size of nanomaterials to be exact. A group in the Piedmont Triad is working to bring together a variety of research, business and academic partners to commercialize products and raise the prominence of North Carolina in this area.
From the Winston-Salem Journal
Catawba seeks Research Campus role
Catawba College's incoming president looks to add a biotechnology major and work in partnership with the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. The college may have an in - Lynne Scott Safrit, who is directing the research campus' development, is a Catawba alum.
This story is part of a two-day profile of Lynne Scott Safrit.
From the Salisbury Post
Community Watch
- Martin Lancaster, president of the North Carolina Community College System, will join Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan LLP as an "of counsel" attorney after his retirement. More
- George Esgro, who has a 20-year background in pharmaceutical sales management, has been named vice president of sales and marketing at Cornerstone BioPharma Inc. More
- John Didsbury, Ph.D., has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Raleigh-based DARA BioSciences. Didsbury was previously the company's Chief Scientific Officer. More
- Pharmaceutical Strategic Initiatives, a Durham-based provider of marketing consultation and content development services to the pharmaceutical industry, named Anne L. Sexton as its vice president of medical activities. More
- PPD Inc. appointed Mike Wilkinson, Ph.D., executive vice president of global clinical development. More
- Durham-based Expression Analysis has expanded its product line to include a Genome-Wide Association Study program. The new offering will support regulatory compliance while providing researchers the ability to run many more specimens faster. More
Please send Community Watch items to Jim Shamp.
Events Calendar
Five Ventures Conference in Charlotte
The seventh annual Five Ventures® Conference & Competition is set for April 10 at UNC Charlotte. Listen to panel discussions, network with colleagues, and watch as 14 emerging start-up companies compete for over $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Register by Tuesday to receive the discounted registration fee. University students, faculty and staff can attend for free.
Save the Date
May 19-20
Biotech 2008
(Winston-Salem)
June 17-20
BIO 2008 Conference
NC Pavilion Sponsorship
(San Diego)
Dec. 4-5
SE BIO Investor Forum
(Palm Beach, Fla.)
View our complete listing of events across North Carolina.
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