NCBiotech News

Angela “Nikki” Chang, left, and Jessica Barrios with optical tweezers Chang uses to study nanoparticles for cancer therapy. (Photo by Amanda Getty)

The 2012 Summer Microarray Workshop in Asheville, co-hosted by the Biotech Center, will focus on best practices for clinical cytogenomic microarrays. Array-based cytogenomics is the study of the structures of genomes -- the complete sets of genetic materials of an organism.

The Biotech Center's Industrial Fellowship Program helped Meredith Brown, Ph.D., find a new career at Metabolon.

 

Visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases, and grant development tips!

Young life-science companies, researchers and educators received $3.38 million in loans and grants from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center during the first quarter of this year.

The awards, in eight programs, went to successful applicants across the state to support life-science entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and education.

Deadline: 2/8/12
Agency: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Program: Collaborative Funding Grant (CFG)

Vaccines are healthy for North Carolina's citizens and our economy.

Paul Ulanch

Veteran business development specialist Paul Ulanch, Ph.D., M.B.A., has joined the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s AgBiotech Group as Biotechnology Crops Development Director.

The First Flight Venture Center (FFVC) in Research Triangle Park is accepting applications from life-science entrepreneurs who need a good place to start their business.

FFVC has been incubating start-up companies for the past two decades, and has expanded its ability to help life science companies with the help of two Regional Development Grants from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

Avient Biosciences' new hemp and research and extraction facility is prepared to produce pharmaceutical ingredients.

Lucerno Dynamics, a Morrisville company developing noninvasive sensor technology that can show the effectiveness of radiotracer injections in patients undergoing PET/CT scans, has launched a nationwide study to demonstrate the benefits of its system.

Some of the many partners who teamed up to recruit a $1 billion cell culture flu vaccine factory to Holly Springs, N.C., got a tangible reminder of the fruits of their 13-year labor on Tuesday as they rolled up their sleeves for a shot of the game-changing vaccine made by fellow North Carolinians.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 36 loans and grants totaling nearly $2.5 million to universities and bioscience companies during the fourth quarter of its 2015-2016 fiscal year ending June 30.

Chaperone Therapeutics of Research Triangle Park is teaming up with the nonprofit ALS Therapy Development Institute of Cambridge, Mass., to explore potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease.

A study of the state’s life science landscape by the Battelle lists crop genetic engineering as one of six emerging life science technology sectors likely to flourish into the future. The  Technology Partnership Practice