DETROIT - Compuware Corporation Wednesday announced that it has acquired privately held Hilgraeve, a Monroe, Michigan, a Microsoft connectivity partner that recently has focused on solving connectivity problems in the healthcare, automotive and financial industries. No terms were announced. This acquisition makes Compuware Covisint the world's largest on-demand collaboration platform for lab and prescription data
KALAMAZOO - Metabolic Solutions Development Co., a therapeutics company, is the sixth investment for the Southwest Michigan First Life Sciences Fund. The company was founded in Kalamazoo in 2006 by two retired Pfizer scientists, Rolf Kletzien, PhD, and Jerry Colca, PhD. Their scientific strategy is build on understanding insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones to create a new generation
DETROIT - A. Paul Schaap, former Wayne State University chemistry professor and founder of Southfield-based Lumigen Inc., and his wife Carol, have donated $7.7 million to support expansion of the Chemistry Building and the A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Stipend Fund. WSU, pending approval by the Board of Governors, will name
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot will open January 31 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. to distribute consumables to companies that qualify. Biotechnology companies also will have the chance to review the $6 million in laboratory equipment donated by Pfizer. To qualify you must have a Certificate of Eligibility from a Michigan SmartZone
LANSING - Acting deliberately on the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that allowed women the right to abortion, the Senate on Tuesday passed SB 776 that would mimic the federal law banning the so-called partial-birth abortion process. Later in the day, an effort by House Republicans to tie-bar the Senate bill to
LANSING - Proponents of changing Michigan law to permit all types of stem cell research are now attempting to get a constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Mark Burton, who was legislative counsel for the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (now Michigan Association for Justice) before opening up his own consulting firm this year, is heading
ANN ARBOR ? Biopharmaceutcal company NanoBio has hired a new executive, Stephen Gracon, D.V.M., as vice president of regulatory affairs. Dr. Gracon will lead the regulatory and quality assurance activities for the company's pipeline of anti-infective products and mucosal vaccines. Dr. Gracon brings 30 years of experience to NanoBio in diverse areas within the pharmaceutical
GRAND RAPIDS - The Van Andel Research Institute has named James Fahner, M.D., the current and founding division chief of pediatric hematology and oncology and senior administrative physician for philanthropy and community relations at Helen DeVos Children?s Hospital, to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Fahner was elected in December 2007 by the three members of
KALAMAZOO - The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center and MichBio have teamed up to offer a quarterly series of networking and educational events for life sciences companies in southwest Michigan. The first event is scheduled for Jan. 15 at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center. The first event, ?Life Outside the Incubator? will feature a panel of
GRAND RAPIDS - The Center for Molecular Medicine announced it is one of the first laboratories in the nation to offer a new test to help guide the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. The CMM is offering the CellSearch System from Veridex to physicians as a vital new tool in managing patients with metastatic CRC.