CLEVELAND - Midwest health care startups reported a record-breaking $1 billion in total investments for 104 companies through the third quarter of 2007, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. The previous full-year record for Midwest health care companies was $783 million in 2006. Ohio and Minnesota led all Midwestern states in
ANN ARBOR - NanoBio Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, announced Tuesday it has hired Joyce Sutcliffe, Ph.D., as vice president of research. She previously was chief research scientist for Rib-X Pharmaceuticals. Sutcliffe brings 26 years of experience in the discovery and design of new antibiotics, with particular emphasis on understanding and overcoming antibiotic resistance. During her
LANSING - James Greenwood, president and CEO of Bio, the national biotechnology trade group, says Michigan's traditional strengths - manufacturing and agriculture - could stand the state well in its efforts to develop more biotechnology companies. Greenwood was a keynote speaker in October at MichBio, the state's life sciences trade association expo at the Lansing
ANN ARBOR ? Life sciences trade association MichBio announced Thursday that it had formed a new Biotechnology Legislative Caucus during its annual Expo & Conference being held this week in Lansing. The Biotechnology Legislative Caucus is a bipartisan, bicameral body whose membership is open to any interested legislators. The BLC?s leadership group includes Reps. Hildenbrand
LANSING - A report from a panel created to study the feasibility of branding the metro Detroit area's efforts in health research and education said doing so could help promote economic development. The 18-member panel, jointly created by the Detroit Regional Chamber, Detroit Renaissance and the state, called for a number of steps to be
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor SPARK said on Monday they plan to fill a former Pfizer facility with U-M researchers and four life sciences startups ? the first tenants of a new wet lab incubator. Wet labs, highly sophisticated, climate-controlled, specially ventilated research facilities, are far more expensive than typical
ANN ARBOR ? Elizabeth Attias, president of Atom Strategic Consulting, will talk about minimizing investment while maximizing impact at the October 10 meeting of BioArbor, which will be held at SPARK Central. Attias founded Atom Strategic Consulting after eight successful years in the pharmaceutical industry. As the President and CEO of Atom Strategic Consulting, Beth
DETROIT- Wayne State University will host a conference on Oct. 5 to deal with a potentially serious public health threat not only to the United States, but to the World - The danger of a pandemic developing from the H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu. No sustained human-to-human transmission has occurred so far, but
ANN ARBOR - Early registration ends October 1 for the MichBio Expo scheduled for Oct. 16-17 at the Lansing Convention Center. MichBio member and non-member rates will increase by $50 to $200 and $250, respectively. The Expo is the largest annual gathering of the life science industry in the state. It features a full program
GRAND RAPIDS ? Van Andel Institute last week presented its annual Daniel Nathans Memorial Award to two scientists instrumental in investigating human papillomavirus and its links to cervical cancer. Harald zur Hausen, M.D., whose laboratory identified infection by HPV as the main cause of cervical cancer, and Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., whose studies helped lead