NCBiotech News

Cook Medical, a medical device company with major operations in Winston-Salem, will distribute a disposable duodenoscope from Danish developer Ambu in the U.S. after FDA approval.

Charlotte pharmaceutical company Chelsea Therapeutics is being purchased by Danish global drug company Lundbeck for as much as $658 million in up-front cash and milestone payments to shareholders.

T3D Therapeutics, an RTP company started with loan help from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has received a $9 million federal grant to help study the company’s promising approach for battling Alzheimer’s.

The Greiner Bio-One plastics manufacturing company in the Union County city of Monroe makes a science of creating plastic bottles, tubes and other products for the global research and medical markets.

Durham-based 410 Medical has launched a new and improved version of LifeFlow, its medical device for treating life-threatening low blood pressure, shock and sepsis in critically ill patients.

Nandini Mendu, Ph.D., and Michelle VonCannon of NCBiotech's Agriculture Sector Development team sit down to discuss our efforts expand North Carolina's animal health and nutrition sector.

The Personalized Medicine Coalition promotes policies that support personalized medicine and encourages physicians to integrate personalized medicine in clinical settings.

Population screening can use genetic information to identify seemingly healthy people who harbor a high risk of a hereditary disease, well before they become ill.

Raleigh-based Merz North America has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a treatment for blepharospasm, or involuntary blinking, in adults.

A simple idea became a life-changing one for a young Duke physician assistant who never planned to do anything but practice medicine. Now Shawn Gage is not only an inventor, but an entrepreneur too.

bluebird bio, a Massachusetts-based gene and cell therapy company, has opened its first wholly owned manufacturing facility in Durham amid cheers from state leaders.

The nearly $5 million in equity that Cary-based Phoenix Cardiac raised this month should enable it to gain European approval of its medical device that fixes a heart valve problem, according to its founder and CEO.

The National Science Foundation has just awarded Johnston Community College a $283,880 grant to train technicians for jobs at major biomanufacturing plants in the area.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 37 grants and loans totaling more than $1.6 million to universities, bioscience companies and other organizations in the third quarter of its fiscal year.

It was a fortuitous connection when Jay Annis, an entrepreneurial nurse anesthetist from Farmville, was able to team with Farmville’s newly expanding medical device manufacturer D R Burton to build a better intubation device.