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.
October 17, 2019
The NCBiotech Crop Commercialization Program was created to evaluate and coordinate the introduction and market development of newer high-value crops as well as improvements for existing crops that would help North Carolina farmers.
October 16, 2019
Farmers in the state are moving closer to a sweet new cash crop option, thanks to a research grant from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
October 16, 2019
The brainchild of a Duke University medical student was transformed, over time, into one of the world’s leading life sciences companies. Now Burlington-based LabCorp is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a global life science leader.
October 15, 2019
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 18 grants and loans totaling nearly $1.4 million to bioscience companies, universities and non-profit organizations in the first quarter of its 2019-20 fiscal year.
October 14, 2019
A public-private partnership has cut the ribbon for a regional industrial wastewater pretreatment facility in Clayton worth $40 million.
October 10, 2019
Aruna Bio, a Georgia pharmaceutical company with a growing Raleigh presence, has been awarded a $4.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support its development of a potential stroke treatment.
October 9, 2019
Raleigh clinical-stage pharmaceutical developer Innovate Biopharma is merging with Israel-based RDD Pharma to create a new company, 9 Meters Biopharma.
October 9, 2019
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has won a $24 million federal grant to model the effects of chlorine gas on human lungs and to develop treatments for chemical injury.
October 9, 2019
Two North Carolina life science companies have teamed up to resolve a multi-year, national shortage of an important drug.
October 9, 2019
Durham-based Dova Pharmaceuticals plans to merge with a Swedish biopharmaceutical company in a deal that could be worth up to $915 million to Dova’s shareholders.
October 3, 2019
Greensboro's Piedmont Animal Health has received a patent for the formulation platform of its long-acting sterile injectable macrolide antibiotics for administration to companion animals and humans.
October 2, 2019
If you’re a life science professional looking to take the next career step, but can’t afford to quit your day job, you may want to consider UNC's new online program to earn a Master of Professional Science degree in biomedical and health informatics.
October 2, 2019
Raleigh’s Eva Garland Consulting, LLC has expanded its partnership with the National Institutes of Health, thanks to a newly awarded contract.
October 1, 2019
Pfizer, the international biopharmaceutical giant, is expanding its gene therapy program with the purchase of a Durham property that will become a clinical manufacturing facility.
October 1, 2019
NIH has launched a massive effort to develop better flu vaccines, awarding the Duke Human Vaccine Institute three contracts worth up to $400 million over seven years.