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NIEHS’s 24th annual Biomedical Career Symposium will be held virtually on Thursday and Friday, August 26 and 27.
If you're interested in a life sciences career, mark your calendar for Wednesday, August 4 when BioNetwork hosts its fifth virtual career fair in partnership with biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies from across the state.
Raleigh emerged as the No. 5 metro area in the latest Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index, while Burlington hit #19 and Durham-Chapel Hill ranked #22 among the nation's top 300 markets.
RTP regenerative health company Merakris Therapeutics is providing a new eye-care product to eye surgeons and their patients in the Carolinas and Texas, thanks to a partnership with Winston-Salem nonprofit Miracles in Sight.
North Carolina has one of the largest biopharma manufacturing industries in the nation, and a well-coordinated workforce development network is providing the right stuff to keep it growing.
A compound developed by Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson, Ph.D., an associate professor at ECU, with grant support from NCBiotech, could lead to more-effective skin cancer treatments.
Two teams of researchers from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have won top awards and a combined $400,000 in a five-year NASA competition, beating nine other teams and creating viable vessel tissue from human cells.
Kriya Therapeutics is poised to revolutionize gene therapies for highly serious diseases like diabetes and severe obesity after landing a whopping $100 million in capital.
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Durham-based Bioventus, a global med tech company which went public earlier this year, is releasing a new product to its lineup that uses human tissue to improve bone fusions.

A new training program at Durham Tech will prepare students for good-paying entry-level jobs in North Carolina’s growing agricultural biotechnology industry beginning this fall
Durham-based Xilis has raised $70 million in Series A financing to advance its precision oncology platform.
Cary med tech startup Lucerno Dynamics has landed a critical partnership with Siemens Healthineers, one of the world's largest healthcare suppliers.
Laura Gunter, M.B.A, has been selected as the new president of NCBIO, the N.C. Biosciences Organization, succeeding longtime president Sam Taylor who died in February.
A new biopsy sheath developed by Raleigh med tech startup UVision360 is ready to hit the market after landing federal approval this week.
When COVID-19 upended his college aspirations, Carl May deferred his freshman year to battle the bug in his family business, Andersen Sterilizers, processing millions of swabs at the company's Morrisville contract sterilization facility and learning much in the process.
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