NCBiotech News
We work hard to bring you the stories about the life science community in North Carolina. Every once in a while, we add a little news of our own. Read some of those stories below, or check out some of our perspectives on our staff blog.
June 10, 2020
Raleigh's Collaborations Pharmaceuticals is partnering with universities, foundations and other companies to develop drugs that treat rare and neglected diseases, but it's also targeting COVID-19 now.
June 10, 2020
Appalachian State University faculty members have developed a free app to allow people around the world log the activity of bees and other pollinators.
June 9, 2020
NC Med Tech Firm BioMedInnovations Gets FDA OK for Innovative COVID-19 Ventilator Developed wIth Rare Partnerships, from NASCAR to Lawrence Livermore
June 9, 2020
UK-based MedPharm Ltd., which completed a $4 million expansion in Research Triangle Park just six months ago, is at it again, this time in Durham.
June 9, 2020
Grifols, a global biotherapeutics company with more than 2,000 employees in North Carolina, is adding 300 more to its Clayton workforce as part of a $351.6 million expansion there.
June 9, 2020
A transformative Belgian crop protection company, Biotalys NV, is establishing U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park.
June 4, 2020
NCBiotech portfolio company Arrevus has landed two federal grants totaling roughly $800,000 to investigate its novel chaperone protein inhibitor, ARV-1502, for treating sepsis and for wound healing.
June 3, 2020
Morrisville's Q2 Solutions has inked a partnership deal with Thermo Fisher Scientific tol speed up enrollment of patients in oncology clinical trials.
June 3, 2020
A grant to help train military service members in North Carolina and Texas for biopharmaceutical manufacturing careers has been approved by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL).
June 3, 2020
The U.S. Army has selected Metabolon for a five-year contract to analyze the metabolic profiles of military personnel.
June 3, 2020
Cary-based startup Atom Bioworks plans to use artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, boosted by a $240K NSF grant, to design a rapid diagnostic for COVID-19.
June 2, 2020
Innovative California-based healthcare company GRAIL, Inc., will invest $103 million and create nearly 400 new jobs over the next four years in Research Triangle Park.
June 2, 2020
If you’re interested in participating in a clinical trial to solve some of the riddles of COVID-19, LabCorp can help you make that connection.
May 29, 2020
Life Science Intelligence Research Analyst Allison Cruise has been named a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow.
May 29, 2020
Former North Carolina State Representative and NCBiotech advocate Jack Hunt has died.
Hunt played a prominent role in establishing NCBiotech and was an emeritus member of its board of directors.
He died peacefully at his Lattimore home in Cleveland County May 27 at the age of 97. His wife of 71 years, Ruby, died three years earlier in 2017. The couple leaves behind five daughters, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.