IN FOCUS FEATURE
$100K Biotechnology Center Grant Funds Plan for Center of Innovation
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In Focus
$100K Biotechnology Center Grant Funds Plan for Center of Innovation
A group that spans the state from Murphy to Manteo is working together to research the resources that create the state's beauty. Their findings may create nutritional supplements, foods with extra benefits, and health treatment plans that include natural alternative medicines.
The Biotechnology Center recently awarded this group, managed by the Small Business and Technology Development Center's Asheville Office, a $100,000 planning grant to work toward creating the Bent Creek Center of Innovation for Natural Biotechnology and Integrative Medicine.
Read more about the award in this week's In Focus.
From Our Web Site
UNCG Herbal Expert Joins Kannapolis Group
UNCG hires leading Chinese herbal medicine scientist to co-direct new nutrition research effort at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis
Wake Forest Baptist Names CEO
John McConnell, M.D., will become the first Chief Executive Officer of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. McConnell is currently executive vice president of health system affairs at the University of Texas Southwestern.
Business Center May Bring Foreign Biotech to NC
The organizer of the successful community effort to build a biotechnology incubator at the Piedmont Triad Research Park is getting ready to launch a new push to draw international attention to the Triad's biotech scene.
RTI Wins Contract in United Arab Emirates
RTI International has won a contract worth at least $80 million to help strengthen environmental services for the government of Abu Dhabi.
Biotechnology Center Names Industrial Fellowship Company Sponsors
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has announced the five sponsoring companies chosen for the first year of its Industrial Fellowship Program.
News from Other Sites
Charlotte May Promote Itself as Biotech Hub
Charlotte's image as Banktown could soon get a makeover to a hub for life science and biomanufacturing companies.
From the (Raleigh) News & Observer
From the Charlotte Observer
N.C. Biotech Center Picks Five Firms for New Fellowship Program
Five life science companies will participate in the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s new “Industrial Fellowship Program” through which post-doctorate researchers will receive private-sector experience with their compensation being paid by the Biotech Center.
From WRAL Local Tech Wire
From Tech Journal South
Researcher in Herbal and Traditional Chinese Medicines Named Co-director of UNCG Center at Research Campus
UNCG's choice to lead its Center for Research Excellence in Bioactive Food Components at the N.C. Research Campus researches traditional Chinese medicine.
From the Salisbury Post
Community Watch
- Jason Shih, Ph.D., professor of biotechnology in the North Carolina State University poultry science department and chairman of Research Triangle Park-based BioResource International, received the Evonik Degussa Award for Achievement in Poultry Science at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Poultry Science Association in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Earlier this summer Shih also received the annual Poultry Science Research Award at the World Poultry Congress in Brisbane, Australia. Shih co-founded BioResource with his son, Giles Shih, Ph.D., to commercialize the elder Shih’s enzyme technology research discoveries. More.
- Pharmaceutical industry veteran David Mazzo has been named president of Regado Biosciences, succeeding co-founder and Aurora Funds venture capitalist Douglas Gooding, who remains a consultant to the Durham drug company.
- David Subich, M.D., has left the Mansfield, Ohio medical practice he started to become senior director of clinical operations for a new therapeutic group – metabolic and endocrine diseases – established by Raleigh-based contract research organization INC Research. INC has also promoted Nick Kenny, Ph.D. vice president of oncology, to the post of senior vice president of oncology and hired Warren A. Prosser, MBA, CCRA, senior director of clinical operations at Arena Pharmaceuticals, as vice president of clinical operations for global neurology. More.
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October 28
Charlotte Biotechnology Conference
(Charlotte)
December 4-5
SE BIO Investor Forum
(Palm Beach, Fla.)
February 16-17
Biotech 2009
(Raleigh)
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This newsletter was sent Thursday, August 14, 2008. For the latest headlines from North Carolina's biotechnology industry, please visit the news section of our Web site.
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