NCBiotech News

A combination of economic development projects in multiple sectors – life sciences, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and even retail – helped land North Carolina the sole top spot in the latest issue of Area Development, a quarterly publication covering site selection, facility planning and economic development.

Medical device startup restor3d, which uses 3D printing for a more individualized approach to implant surgery, is getting bigger.

The Durham-headquartered company has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Conformis, Inc. to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of the Massachusetts-based business for $2.27 per share. The all-cash deal is a 96% premium to Conformis’ closing price on June 22. It should be completed by the end of the third quarter of this year.

Back in 2018, walking away from a conversation with North Pitt High School sophomore Diana De Leon, Mark Phillips knew he wanted to help her. He just needed to figure out how. 

Mark is North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Vice President of Statewide Operations and Executive Director of its Eastern Regional Office in the public power city of Greenville, North Carolina. 

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center and a host of partners showcased the strengths of North Carolina’s life sciences community at BIO 2023, the international biotechnology conference in Boston last week.  

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Merck (NYSE:MRK) announced a collaboration agreement today for Merck to build a biotechnology training center at Gateway Research Park’s South Campus in East Greensboro.

Merck will outfit the facility with the equipment and classroom spaces necessary to provide and enhance academic programming and training for biotechnology careers for North Carolina A&T students. A process laboratory will allow opportunities for students to put knowledge into practice in an advanced discovery setting.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper was recognized June 6 at the 20th annual World Stem Cell Summit in Winston-Salem for his role in developing the life sciences.

Cooper received the Regenerative Medicine Action Leadership Award from the Regenerative Medicine Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes the development of regenerative medicine to improve health and deliver cures.

RTP-based restor3d is using 3D printing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to design patient-specific surgical implants and related instruments across multiple fields of medicine.

NuRevelation, an RTP-based company founded by a Black NC woman with a chemistry degree to produce Southern Wicked Lemonade, is now raising capital to develop a nanoparticle-based drug-delivery platform.

StrideBio, a gene therapy company based in Research Triangle Park, has sold its intellectual property to Ginkgo Bioworks of Boston.

The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce's Grow Local program gives students ideas on cool careers they might have never considered but might want to pursue, such as biomanufacturing.

Sciencix, a Cary supplier of replacement parts for instrumentation used in biotech and pharma manufacturing, is being honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration as its 2023 Small Business Exporter of the Year.

Texas-based TFF Pharmaceuticals is leaning on its North Carolina development team to advance a novel drug-delivery technology that could make medicines safer and more effective.

Cary startup Cosmic Eats wants to develop foods that are out of this world – literally.

Global pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is investing another $450 million and adding at least 100 jobs in an expansion of its nearly completed $474 million Research Triangle Park pharmaceutical manufacturing campus.

Imagine receiving a COVID-19 vaccine not from the jab of a needle and syringe but by slipping a thin, clear film smaller than a postage stamp inside your cheek or under your tongue and letting it dissolve.