NCBiotech News

Raleigh-based Mako Medical Laboratories, a fast-growing diagnostic services company, will create 153 jobs over five years in Henderson, where it plans to build a $15.4 million testing facility with warehousing space.

Potential therapies for several rare diseases and cancers will be manufactured in Durham, according to Cambridge-based bluebird bio, which has purchased a 125,000-square foot manufacturing site.

Two panelists appearing in today’s Jobs Network program at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center will be representing one of the world’s best employers.

Tessy Malone, Pharm.D., senior director of marketing, and Beth Tootle, HR business partner, both work at the North Carolina arm of Spanish pharmaceutical and health care company Grifols, which has just been ranked 415th in the list of “500 World’s Best Employers.”

Durham-based Scinovia Corp.’s new imaging system to help surgeons monitor patients’ blood flow during operations is moving closer to the market in 2016.

BASF, the largest ag employer in Research Triangle Park, has officially opened this $33M expansion of its 125-acre Davis Drive campus.

More than 250 eighth graders representing Cabarrus, Kannapolis City, Richmond County and Rowan-Salisbury school systems celebrated fun and learning at Rockingham Dragway with parents and teacher “coaches” on Saturday in the first BioMoto STEM Challenge.

Humacyte, a Morrisville-based regenerative medicine company bootstrapped with early funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has received more than $18 million from three sources to help test and commercialize its bioengineered blood vessel, Humacyl.

Triangle Business Journal’s latest annual roundup of the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Triangle region includes two bioscience companies and seven others that provide valuable life science support functions.

BioFluidica, a Chapel Hill company developing a product using liquid biopsies for cancer detection, has raised $4.1 million in a private equity offering. 

Humacyte, a Morrisville-based regenerative medicine company, has been selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s 30 “Technology Pioneers” for 2017.

The U.S. Special Operations Forces, which include Navy Seals, Army Rangers, and Air Force Special Tactics, have 9,500 people deployed in 90 countries. So they have special needs when it comes to acquisitions from private-sector partners.

One thing was clear, from the opening keynote to the final session, after a unique gathering of North Carolina business and Pentagon procurement leaders: the military is actively seeking private-sector partners to support the health and healing of U.S. warfighters and their families.

Humacyte, a Research Triangle Park-based biotechnology company focused on regenerative medicine, has won one of the first Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Durham-based Baebies Inc. has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing a system to screen newborns for four rare but potentially fatal diseases.

FierceBiotech Medical Devices has named Morrisville-based, NCBiotech-backed Humacyte to its annual Fierce 15 list of innovative medical device companies for 2016.