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On Our Web Site
Arbovax Closes on Angel Investment Round
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Program Links Loans and In-Kind Expertise to Spinout Companies
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LaamScience Raises $2 Million
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Biotechnology Center's 20th Year of Teacher Training Begins
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Jan Turek Wins Ernst and Young Award
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GlycoMark Blood Test Measures Post-Meal Glucose Levels
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Novo Nordisk Expands Manufacturing Facility
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Biotechnology in the News
Focus On Careers: North Carolina - Opportunity and Community
"'Trees, tees, and Ph.D.s' is the phrase locals use to portray North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, an 8-mile by 2-mile area bordered by Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham."
From Science
Hamner Institutes Chasing $100M
"Aiming to create the hub of early-stage drug safety research, backers of the proposed Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences are hitting up 10 to 12 large pharma and biotech companies in an effort to raise $100 million over five years."
From Triangle Business Journal
Gwyn Riddick: Helping to Build a Strong Foundation
"Gwyn Riddick's career has covered a lot of ground -- from laboratory scientist to entrepreneur to educator. But two of the things that make the director of the Piedmont Triad office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center happiest and most proud are at home."
Researchers Light Up for Nicotine, the Wonder Drug
"Smoking may be bad for you, but researchers and biotech companies are quietly developing pharmaceuticals that are decidedly good for brains, bowels, blood vessels and even immune systems -- and they're inspired by tobacco's deadly active ingredient: nicotine."
From Wired
Raleigh's Respirics Raises $2.5M
"Respirics, an eight-person company founded in 2001, will use the money to develop various products related to its Acu-Breathe dry powder inhaler."
From Triangle Business Journal
New WCU Master's Degree Program Cross-Trains Students
"A new graduate program designed to prepare scientists for careers in the 'business' of the science and technology industry marks the latest expansion of Western Carolina University’s programs that support regional development and innovation."
From the Asheville Citizen-Times
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Conference On Small Molecule Science 2007 (Chapel Hill, NC)
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This digest of Fast News was sent Friday June 22, 2007. For the latest headlines on North Carolina's biotechnology industry, please visit http://www.ncbiotech.org/news_and_events/industry_news/index.html