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.
May 21, 2020
TeraRecon, a company that builds comprehensive medical imaging software using artificial intelligence, recently got a new owner, moved its headquarters from SIlicon Valley to Durham, and almost overnight built a new COVID-19 imaging software.
May 20, 2020
Greensboro's Kepley BioSystems has developed a natural liquid called K9 Strategic Scent Stimulant to help dogs avoid distraction while you're socially distancing on COVID-era walks.
May 19, 2020
NC BIONEER announced the four award winners in its inaugural entrepreneurial initiative launched by the NCBiotech Southeastern office and the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
May 18, 2020
ViiV Healthcare, a global HIV specialty company with U.S. headquarters in RTP, says preliminary clinical trial results show its every-other-month injectable is more effective than the current standard-of-care daily oral medication in preventing HIV.
May 14, 2020
LabCorp is offering employers COVID-19 testing solutions, including its at-home collection test kit, its new fingerstick antibody blood test, and in the fall, flu vaccination services.
May 14, 2020
Orion Integrated Biosciences, a Kansas-based biodefense company with a growing presence in North Carolina, plans to use artificial intelligence to design vaccines to fight COVID-19.
May 14, 2020
If you’ve been diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus and have recovered, you can help researchers find a potential treatment for the disease by donating at one of Grifols' plasma collection sites.
May 8, 2020
A new North Carolina medical software company, Translational Imaging Innovations, is developing tools to help scientists and doctors get medical innovations into the eye clinic faster, with less frustration and at a lower cost.
May 8, 2020
RedHill Biopharma has received approval to test its investigational COVID-19 drug, opaganib, in the United States.
May 8, 2020
The Asheville Impact Micro Grant, a Venture Asheville program, will award $5,000 to five new startups in Haywood or Buncombe County this year.
May 7, 2020
UNC is the highest-ranked U.S. university for coronavirus research, according to Microsoft Academic, a public search engine for scholarly publications, journals and other literature.
May 6, 2020
Two of the seven Alexandria LaunchLab $100,000 AgTech Innovation Prize finalists, TreeCo and TerMir, are based in the Triangle.
May 5, 2020
Researchers at UNCG are developing a unique new weapon to combat one of the major causes of honeybee declines: the parasitic mite called the Varroa destructor and the numerous viruses and other harmful pathogens it transmits.
May 5, 2020
NCBiotech awarded 13 grants and loans totaling $1.8 million to universities and bioscience companies in the third quarter of its current fiscal year.
May 4, 2020
Grifols is collecting a blood product from recovered COVID-19 patients to develop a possible treatment for the coronavirus disease.