Features - eBioNews

Features - eBioNews

The Burrill Features

Saving Normal

Obama Administration Offers $1 Billion for Healthcare Innovation

Pharma to Support Early-Stage Biotechs

Scientists Report Human Stem Cell Cloning Success

Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in Favor of Monsanto

AbbVie Options Alvine Celiac Drug for $70 Million

Elan Buys Stake in Theravance Royalties on Drugs

Astellas to Consolidate R&D

Lack of Intestinal Bacteria Linked to Obesity

Drug Recalls Up Over Last Year

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Collaboration, Projects, & Consortia

Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute HUB: A model for collaboration

TGen, Karmanos Lead $6M Melanoma Project

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Pfizer Collaborate to Speed Drug Discovery

e2v aerospace and defense and Maxim Announce an Agreement to Extend the Product Life of Maxim Ceramic ICs

Syntaxin and Ipsen Ally to Develop Botulinum Toxin Therapeutics

BioAmber and LANXESS Partner for Renewable, Phthalate-free Plasticizers

Corgenix Partners with AXA Diagnostics on SkyLAB 752™ Automated Testing Platform

GeoVax and Vivalis Sign Deal for the Biomanufacture of MVA HIV Vaccine in EB66 Cells

EMD Serono and Fast Forward Commit $3 Million for Multiple Sclerosis

VisionGate Begins Collaborations to Evaluate 3-D Cell Analysis Test for Lung Cancer Screening

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Expert Opinions & Commentaries

A new way of looking at drug discovery

JAMA commentary contends vitamin therapy can still reduce stroke

President's Bioethics Commission releases report on human subjects protection

AZ, GSK ask carmakers for directions amid pharma breakdown

Roche chief warns of perfect pharma storm

Biomarkers provide route to personalized medicine

The Cancer Drug Dark Ages Are Coming to an End

Who is Biotech's Steve Jobs?

A.M. Vitals: Study Casts Doubt on Supplement Benefits

Should Teens Be Banned From Indoor Tanning?

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Featured Distributors

Industries in Transition: What Does It Mean for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech?

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Industries in Transition: What Does It Mean for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech?

Featured Experts

Dr. Joan A Steitz won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2006 "for her discovery of the reactivity of autoimmune sera with ribonucleoprotein particles and elucidation of the roles of small nuclear RNAs in messenger RNA processing

Dr. Thomas D. Pollard won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2006 for his discoveries related to understanding the cytoskeleton of the cell and the basis of cell mobility and its relevance to human disease

Dr. Alan Hall won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2006 for his discoveries related to understanding the cytoskeleton of the cell and the basis of cell mobility and its relevance to human disease

Dr. Dennis J. Slamon won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2007 for the development of targeted therapy Herceptin against advanced breast cancer

Dr. Kim Nasmyth won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2007 for his discovery of the mechanism of chromosome segregation during cell division

Dr. Samuel Weiss won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2008 for his seminal discovery of adult neural stem cells in the mammalian brain and its importance in nerve cell regeneration

Dr. Lucy Shapiro won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2009 for the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity

Dr. Richard Losick won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2009 for the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division

Dr. William A. Catterall won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2010 for discovery of the voltage-gated sodium channel and calcium channel proteins and the elucidation of their function and regulation

Dr. Gregg L. Semenza won Canada Gairdner International Award in 2010 for identification of molecular mechanisms of oxygen sensing in the cell

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Featured Laboratories

Warner C. Greene: focuses on the pathogenic interplay of the HIV-1 and HTLV-I human retroviruses with immune cells.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic:The focus of our research is on engineering functional human tissues

Dr.Mingjie Zhang's laboratory: Focus on Neuronal structural biology

Dr. Erik Winfree:The DNA and Natural Algorithms Group

Dr.David Botstein:Professor of Genomics Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute

Dr.David Baltimore:1975 Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Dr.Samuel Pfaff: focusing on the fetal development of the spinal cord.

Dr. Wessler: identifying plant transposable elements and determining how they contribute to gene and genome evolution

Dr. Theresa M. Reineke: specializes in the synthetic design and investigation of functional macromolecules.

Dr David Agard: focusing on elucidating the mechanism of microtubule nucleation, Hsp90 chaperone function, and the role of dynamics in enzyme function and folding.

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Featured Technologies

Walking again after spinal injury

Breakthrough nanoparticle halts multiple sclerosis

Texas Biomed reports faster, more economical method for detecting bioterror threats

NEW METHOD EMPOWERS FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY

New wave of technologies possible after ground-breaking analysis tool developed

University of Minnesota engineering researchers discover new non-invasive method for diagnosing epilepsy

New genomic sequencing method enables 'smarter' anaysis of individual cells

New method for associating genetic variation with crop traits

Scripps Research Institute Scientists Develop Alternative to Gene Therapy

Skin contact breast tumor detection

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Grant & Funding Opportunities

Federally funded research & development centers employed more than 3,000 postdoctoral researchers

Federally-funded Research and Development Centers Spend $17.8 Billion in Fiscal Year 2011

NHGRI Unveils New-Look Genome Sequencing Program; Plans $416M in Funding

NYU to Study Genetics of Obesity-Related Cancers

Researchers Get NHGRI Funding to Study Effects of Alzheimer's Risk Testing

Venture Firms Pump $18M into Fledgling Arteaus Therapeutics

Servier and miRagen Sign $352M Deal for Cardiovascular miRNA Therapeutics

Tetraphase Awarded Initial $6M by NIAID to Develop Antibiotic Against Biothreats

Dermira Announces a $42m Series A Financing to Fund Therapeutic Advances in Dermatology

Salk Institute for Biological Studies to Accelerate Brain Research With $4.5 Million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant

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Hot Papers

How the brain folds to fit

Muscle Repair After Injury Helped by Fat-Forming Cells

Researcher offers clues on the origins of life

Researchers reveal new enzyme that acts as innate immunity sensor

The cell that isn’t

Cell: Protein folding via charge zippers

Chinese medicine yields secrets to scientists at The Scripps Research Institute

New findings in the search for genetic clues to insulin production

Researchers develop light-based 'remote control' for proteins inside cells

Optogenetics illuminates pathways of motivation through brain, Stanford study shows

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Appointments

Sanofi (France) Taps David Meeker as New CEO of Genzyme Corporation

Drug Information Association Appoints Kaushik Desai as DIA India Director

Sentrx Announces Resignation of Charles T. Saldarini As CEO

EKR Therapeutics Announces Senior Management Change

Amgen Appoints Robert A. Bradway to the Company's Board of Directors

Anavex Life Sciences Corp. Appoints Dr. George Tidmarsh as Executive Director

Isis Biopolymer Appoints New President and CEO

RedHill Biopharma Appoints Key Opinion Leader Professor David Y. Graham from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, as Lead Investigator for the US Pivotal Clinical Trial with RedHill's Crohn’s Drug – RHB-104

Apceth is Extending its Top Management: Prof. Ralf Huss Moves from Roche (RHHBY) to the Biotechnology Company apceth

BioIndustry Association Board Appointments

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Recognitions

Journal names discovery that HIV treatment can prevent spread 'breakthrough of the year'

Abbott Laboratories's Absorb(TM) Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Honored with Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

Chris Henney Receives 2011 Hall of Fame Award at Annual Biotech CEO Meeting at Laguna Beach

Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $2.2 Million Grant To Study Hepatitis C

SAMHSA Awards Up To $25 Million To Expand Use Of Health Information Technology

Ablitech, Inc. Awarded $2 Million

The Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards AFFiRiS AG $1.5 Million for the Clinical Development of the First Parkinson's Disease Vaccine

SAMHSA Awards Grant To UCLA For Substance Abuse Prevention In Iraq

KGI Professor Awarded Patent For Stem-Cell Therapy Aiding Heart-attack Patients

Nobel Prize for chemistry 2011 goes to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman

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