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.
Ken Tindall, Ph.D., senior vice president of science and business development at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has won Southeast BIO’s Leadership Award, one of several honors announced at SEBIO’s 19th Annual Investor and Partnering Forum in Pinehurst.
Thirty-five years after its founding in 1982, Durham-based QuintilesIMS has retired its name for a new one, IQVIA (pronounced as “I-Q-via”).
Shares of IQVIA will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the new ticker symbol IQV, effective Nov. 15.
Are you ready for chicken tenders that taste and chew like the real thing, even though they’re made from plant protein without a bit of chicken? A Triangle-based company, Improved Nature, already has them and other plant-based meat-like products on the market.
That was only one of the advanced food technologies discussed by a panel of innovators at the North Carolina Professional Ag Biotech forum Wednesday at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Others included:
Wood, the traditional source of pulp, paper, packaging, biofuels and other industrial products, may soon find its way into fish feed bins and onto dinner plates with the use of new processing technologies developed by a North Carolina biotechnology company.
Durham-based Baebies Inc., a developer of products and services for newborn screening and pediatric testing, has closed on $10 million in Series B financing.
The Southeast BIO (SEBIO) Investor & Partnering Forum expects more than 300 biotech and medtech investors, executives, university representatives and entrepreneurs at its 2017 event in Pinehurst November 14 to 16.
Celebrating its 19th year, the SEBIO Investor & Partnering Forum has built a loyal following, attracting thought leaders and investors from across the country. Registration is available at the door.
“They call us the food police.”
That’s how Greg Jaffe described his work as director of biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), speaking at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s seventh annual Biotech Roundtable.
Unlike most speakers at the event, Jaffe said the U.S. government’s decision not to regulate some products created by gene editing is questionable.
Clinical data company TARGET PharmaSolutions of Chapel Hill has entered into a new strategic partnership with a major pharmaceutical company and extended existing partnerships with two others to study a serious liver disease.
