MIDLAND - The MidMichigan Innovation Center and BlueWater Angels along with the Office for Innovation at Covenant HealthCare will be co-hosting a health technology forum April 10 to showcase five new Michigan companies - each company having potential to dramatically impact the future of medicine. One of the roles of the Covenant HealthCare Office for
ANN ARBOR ? The next BioArbor on April 10 will feature two seasoned venture capital investors, both with capital to invest and novel investment strategies. Both are based outside of Michigan, yet have made local investments and are actively seeking opportunities to invest in Michigan. The event will offer a great platform to hear about
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute is be featured April 4 and later in the month as the Cause of the Day button on AOL.com, which is visited by nearly 15 million people daily. AOL provides an opportunity to educate consumers and connect them with non-profit organizations that are on a mission to change the
LANSING - The Michigan Biotechnology Institute and Michigan State University have entered into a new collaborative arrangement, under which promising bio-based technologies will be accelerated from the laboratory to commercial deployment. The agreement combines MSU?s research expertise with MBI?s ?derisking? process and advanced bioprocessing to quickly and efficiently demonstrate the market-readiness of new technologies. Intellectual
LANSING - Some two-thirds of National Federation of Independent Business-Michigan members do not want to see the state expand Medicaid eligibility, the group announced Thursday. Small business owners feared the plan would end up costing the state in the end, NFIB State Director Charlie Owens said. "The governor and his team deserve credit for trying
ANN ARBOR - Aastrom Biosciences Inc. announced Wednesday that it has named Dominick Colangelo president and CEO. Dan Orlando, who had been interim CEO of Aastrom since November, will continue as chief commercial officer. Orlando replaced had replaced Tim Mayleben. Colangelo has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including almost 10
LANSING - Michigan House Republicans were nearly evenly divided on Thursday over legislation allocating federal funding for a federal-state partnership on the federally mandated health insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but the legislation still passed by a comfortable margin. HB 4111 was passed by the House on a 78-31 vote,
LANSING - The Michigan House Appropriations Committee took the first step in setting up a federally mandated health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday when it approved appropriating federal funds for a federal-state partnership. The committee voted 24-3 to report HB 4111 , which would accept $30.67 million in federal grant money
GRAND RAPIDS - As local medical device companies look for new growth opportunities, they may do well to consider serving the burgeoning market in the Middle East, specifically Dubai. That?s the word from Don Beery, director of the two-dozen-member West Michigan Medical Device Consortium, who attended Arab Health 2013 in Dubai in late January. Beery
LANSING - Michigan is one of just seven states are looking to create a joint federal, state exchange for health insurance. All states had to indicate to the federal government by this past Friday whether they would establish a health insurance exchange on their own, have one established by the federal government, or go into