NCBiotech News

Seventy-one companies headquartered in 20 countries now have a presence in North Carolina, employing more than 17,000 people in the state, where they have made capital investments totaling well over $2.5 billion in the past five years alone.

We all know it. The world needs twice as much food by 2050.

We all know it. But commodity prices are low. And that decreases available resources for innovation in food production, pointed out one attendee at Tuesday's Ag Biotech Workshop.

Not so, responded one of the panelists. It's actually psychology.

For when food production is slightly ahead of demand, we think that there is plenty of food. Nothing to worry about.

NCBiotech awarded 11 grants and loans totaling $623,136 to bioscience companies, universities and nonprofit organizations in the first quarter of its fiscal year.

 

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)

North Carolina’s life science sector grew four times faster than that of the rest of the nation over the last decade. Even so, a study of the state’s industry says the best is yet to come, as the state builds on its “SuperSciNCe” – its prodigious research and innovation strengths in such growing markets as medicine, agriculture, biomanufacturing and health informatics.

Visit NCBiotech’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases and grant development tips.

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!

All service businesses are hurting for revenues these days, including Contract Research Organizations.

Yonnie Butler, the Biotechnology Center's business development director, had some insight that he thought would help. This issue of Tablets & Capsules contains his advice.

Interested in the promise of biotechnology, but not sure how to bring it to the classroom?

Been teaching science a long time, but looking for some new ideas?

Sign up for one of our annual summer teacher workshops. The week-long classes are held across the state and are open to North Carolina teachers.

A $50 registration fee holds your place, and most workshops pay a stipend and give you access to free laboratory supplies for the coming year.

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When our economy recovers, it's a good bet that the biotechnology sector will be one of those sectors leading the way.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is pleased to welcome our newest Landing Pad tenant, DAI Global Health.

I love the January NCBiotech Jobs Network events! Everyone comes back from the holidays recharged and revving their “search engines” to reinvigorate their job search. So it’s no surprise that we had a packed house January 27 for our first NCBiotech Jobs Network of 2014. And since it’s a new year, it’s only fitting for the NCBiotech Jobs Network to revisit a basic 101-level course: Intro to … well, intros. Because for most of us, our college degrees didn’t include job-search training.

North Carolina’s life science sector is producing unparalleled job growth and economic expansion for the state, growing nearly 31 percent from 2001 to 2012, in contrast to 1 percent overall private sector employment growth during the same period.