NCBiotech News

On Sept. 23 and 24 NCBiotech and UNC FastTraCS, with support from NC IDEA, are sponsoring a two-day virtual conference, Accelerating Health Care Innovation in North Carolina: Charting the Course.

Alamance Community College just got a big boost to its Biotechnology Center of Excellence, a $17.4 million facility scheduled to open in the fall of 2022, with a $1.1 million equipment grant from the federal Economic Development Administration.

Quality Chemical Laboratories, a Wilmington company that provides contract chemistry services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, started modestly in 1998 with five employees bgut today the company has more than 250 employees and is building a new facility.

Adrian Percy, one of the world’s top leaders in the agriculture field, is set to become the first executive director of the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative.

The effectiveness of Morrisville-based CivaTech Oncology’s implantable radiation device as a treatment for a soft tissue cancer was highlighted recently in an article in the Journal of Surgical Research.

Jose Resto retired from his 22-year Army career on May 1 he was ready for a new challenge. On August 30, he became a full-time Pfizer employee, converting his military experience in warehouse operations into a satisfying new career opportunity.

Durham's Bioventus is adding to its run of acquisitions with a $50 million escrow payment to Israeli med tech startup CertiHeal.

Army veteran Diane Zambrano has walked a winding career path that even took her through a "Delta variant," but she's now excited to be part of North Carolilna's solid and rewarding biopharmaceutical industry.

Durham's home-grown Humacyte becomes a public company today, as it prepares for final FDA approval of its unique bioengineered human tissue replacement systems.

Jared Zimmel, a biomedical tech specialist on WakeMed’ s clinical engineering team, exemplifies the kind of entrepreneurial thinking that will be championed in a virtual conference, "Accelerating Health Care Innovation in North Carolina: Charting the Course," Sept. 23 and 24.

When a car parts manufacturing company decided to move its 300 Lee County jobs out of its Nash Street factory to a factory in Saltillo, Mexico, Lee County bought the Sanford site for more CCCC workforce training.

Seqirus hopes to raise the bar on flu prevention with the accelerated development of its next-generation vaccine technology, called self-amplifying messenger RNA – or sa-mRNA

Duke University spinout Istari Oncology is expanding its trial of an immune-boosting technology that uses variations of the polio vaccine to treat patients with cancer.

Federal and local grants totaling $300,000 are enabling a new pharmaceutical manufacturing workforce training program at Durham Technical Community College.

Thermo Fisher Scientific continues its run on the annual IndustryWeek Best Plants Award with the selection of its Greenville pharmaceutical manufacturing site as the 2021 winner.