Biotechnology Center News Releases

05/12/08Biofuels Center Celebrates Grand Opening

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina held its Grand Opening Friday, May 9 at its facility in Oxford. The state-funded, non-profit center plans to develop a statewide alternative-fuels industry in an effort to reduce dependence on imported oil. Nowhere else...

05/08/08Biotechnology Center Taps Chris Brodie to Lead Communications

Scientist and editor Chris Brodie, Ph.D., has joined the North Carolina Biotechnology Center as vice president of corporate communications.

04/29/08Syngenta Wins Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Award

Syngenta received the third annual Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Award given by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the Biofuels Center of North Carolina.

04/17/08North Carolina Biotechnology Center Hosts Forum With Leaders From Denmark, Norway, Sweden

The first major forum to bring North Carolina biotechnology developers and policy makers together with Scandinavian counterparts to explore potential science, policy and business relationships will be held next Monday and Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden. The event, Building Northern Biotechnology:...

04/17/08Award Launched to Honor Martin Lancaster

The H. Martin Lancaster Biotechnology Faculty of the Year Award was unveiled Tuesday night at the Biotechnology Center. The annual award provides $500 for classroom supplied and equipment for the recipient, who will be one of the N.C. Community College System's biotechnology instructors.

04/11/08Openings Available in Protein Expression (GFP), Biodiversity and Genomics Workshops

These three special topics workshops, in addition to five introductory biotechnology workshops, are scheduled across North Carolina this summer. This marks the Biotechnology Center's 21st year of educating classroom teachers in biotechnology. Those 1400 teachers have introduced thousands of students...

04/09/08Registration Open for Summer Educator Workshops

The 21st year of Biotechnology Center summer workshops includes five introductory and three special topics workshops across the state.

04/02/08Center Grant Program Named for Oliver Smithies

The grant program will now be known as The Oliver Smithies Faculty Recruitment Grant Program. 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.

03/25/08Metabolon Signs Into Boston Study Of Warfarin Gene

RTP-based Metabolon ties into Boston group's study of genetic variability in warfarin's effects.

03/13/08Salix Buys GI Products from German Drug Maker

Raleigh-based Salix Pharmaceuticals has purchased rights to several gastrointestinal disease therapies from Dr. Falk Pharma

03/12/08Phase Bio Secures $1M Equipment Loan

Phase Bioscience, a Durham-based development stage biotechnology company that is relocating to new headquarters and lab facilities in Morrisville, has closed on a $1 million secured equipment loan with SVB Silicon Valley Bank. The funding is the latest in a...

02/28/08Attagene Technology Profiled in Online Journal

Attagene's technology to look at genes currently active in a cell is highlighted in a Nature research journal.

02/04/08Yonnie Butler to Direct Statewide Biobusiness Development

Business development consultant Yonnie Butler has joined the North Carolina Biotechnology Center as Business Development Director in the Business and Technology Development unit.Butler has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, contract research and consulting industries. In his...

01/23/08Mary Beth Thomas to Oversee Centers of Innovation Statewide

Mary Beth Thomas, Ph.D., has joined the Biotechnology Center to manage the organization's newest and largest funding program targeting development of important new business sectors.Thomas accepted the newly created position of senior director, Centers of Innovation (COI) Operations, after serving...

01/11/08Wake Forest, Harvard Scientists Tap Amniotic Fluid For Stem Cells

Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have reported success in using otherwise discarded amniotic fluid as a source of stem cells from which they have created muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver...

01/08/08Biotechnology Center Funds Advanced Medical Technologies Program

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has awarded a $100,000 grant to a consortium coordinated by NCBIO for Phase I planning for a Center of Innovation (COI) in Advanced Medical Technologies.Universities and regional economic development entities across the state submitted the...

01/07/08HyperBranch Receives CE Mark for OcuSeal

Durham-based HyperBranch Medical Technology has received regulatory approval to market its OcuSeal liquid ocular bandage in Europe and other countries outside the United States.HyperBranch said in late December it was granted the CE Mark for OcuSeal, which provides a protective...

01/07/08Frontier Capital Puts $10M in Inclinix Expansion Funding

Inclinix, a Wilmington-based enrollment contract research organization has closed $10 million in expansion funding from Frontier Capital, a Charlotte private equity firm providing growth equity to business services companies.Inclinix accelerates the clinical trials of new drugs by delivering qualified doctors...

12/04/07Biotechnology Center Loans $250,000 to RTP Startup

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has awarded $250,000 to Precision Human Biolaboratory (PHB) to boost its commercialization and development of a unique blood test for major depression.The loan amount was the maximum available under the Biotechnology Center's Strategic Growth Loan...

11/02/07Center Awards $100,000 Planning Grant to Triad Consortium

GREENSBORO AND WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., -- A consortium of Piedmont Triad institutions has been awarded a $100,000 planning grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to establish the state's first Center of Innovation (COI), focusing on the emerging field of nanobiotechnology.The...

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