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Targacept Begins Phase IIb Testing of Schizophrenia Treatment
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Web Portal for N.C. Wet Lab Space Launched
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Work on Wyeth's $50 Million Expansion Begins
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CED Names Presenting Companies for Opportunity 2007
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Norris Tolson on Tech Talk
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Biotechnology in the News
Payday: Icagen Receives First $5M from Pfizer in Stock Buy
"Icagen, which recently announced a drug development partnership that could be worth up to $1 billion with Pfizer, has closed on the sale of $5 million in stock to Pfizer"
From WRAL LocalTechWire.com
Novartis Plant to Bring Jobs, Money to Triangle
"Novartis will break ground Thursday on a new site in Holly Springs. The flu-vaccine maker is expected to create 350 jobs and pump millions of dollars into the Triangle economy."
From WRAL LocalTechWire.com
Vivalis Scores Another Cell Culture Technology
"The company has signed a deal to license platform technology from North Carolina State University which details a method of producing undifferentiated avian cell cultures using avian primordial germ (PGC) cells."
From the LabTechnologist.com
Calendar of Events
Sept. 10-11
Opportunity 2007 (Wrightsville Beach)
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Sept. 12
CATO 2007 Southeast Biotech Symposium (Research Triangle Park)
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Sept. 20
BPD Seminar (Research Triangle Park)
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Sept. 28-30
2007 Plant Molecular Biology Retreat (Wrightsville Beach)
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Sept. 28
NC OPT-ED Alliance Day (Greensboro)
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Sept. 28
Biotechnology and the Culture Wars: Bioethics at the Center (Charlotte)
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Save the Date
Oct. 12
Sixth Annual Charlotte Biotechnology Conference (Charlotte)
Nov. 5
Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (Charlotte)
Nov. 7-8
Southeastern BIO Investor Forum (Pinehurst)
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