KALAMAZOO ? The Right Place Program, a Grand Rapids economic development group, and Southwest Michigan First, its counterpart in greater Kalamazoo, have partnered on a new study that shows drug development and biotech offer rich opportunities for life sciences businesses based in the two metropolitan areas. Specifically, the report shows biopharma and Medical device makers
KALAMAZOO ? Kalamazoo life sciences startup MedElute has been awarded $250,000 from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund. The funding came through was the Kalamazoo SmartZone. To earn Pre-Seed awards, companies are required to obtain matching funds from other investors. MedElute received funding from individual angel investors totaling $250,000. The names were not disclosed. This matched
ANN ARBOR - BioArbor, the new educational networking forum for the life sciences industry in the greater Ann Arbor area, will host its second program on August 15 called Strategic Corporate Legal and Patent Issues for Early Stage Life Science Companies. Presenting will be Stephen M. Davis, Co-Chair of the Firmwide Corporate/VLG Practice Group and
ANN ARBOR ? Young Basile has hired former Pfizer attorney and bioscientist Mehdi Ganjeizadeh to lead its new Life Science industry group in its new office in downtown Ann Arbor across the street from Ann Arbor SPARK. Ganjeizadeh said he chose Young Basile because of its entrepreneurial environment and the opportunity to build a new
KALAMAZOO ? Biotech and pharma contract researcher Global Lifescience Solutions on Tuesday announced it has inked a new partnership with the Michigan High Throughput Screening Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Through the new partnership, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies can now take advantage of HTS screening offered by MHTSC and high content screening offered
CLEVELAND - Midwest health care startups reported a stunning $726 million in total investments across 59 companies in the first half of 2007, nearly equaling the total invested in 2006. This news comes from the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana led all Midwestern states in health care venture capital
ANN ARBOR - Assay Designs, a provider of immunoassay kits, antibodies, and reagents to the life sciences and translational research markets, and VWR International, a distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals, and furniture, announced a new distribution agreement - VWR will offer North American customers a variety of Assay Designs' products. Customers will immediately be
GRAND RAPIDS ? Scientific Investigator Cindy Miranti, Ph.D. and her team in the Laboratory of Integrin Signaling and Tumorigenesis at Van Andel Research Institute have discovered that an enzyme that prostate cancer cells are dependent on for survival is not necessary in normal prostate cells. This finding validates the therapeutic potential of targeting this enzyme
GRAND RAPIDS ? Ted Heilman has joined Van Andel Institute as Assistant Director, Investments ? Senior Portfolio Manager. In this newly created position, he assists with the management of the Institute?s endowment. Heilman worked previously as senior portfolio manager and head of portfolio management in the Wealth Management Group at Fifth Third Bank, where he
ANN ARBOR ? Life sciences trade association MichBio will host the MichBio Expo on October 16 and 17 at the Lansing Center and feature James Greenwood, CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, as its opening keynote speaker. Based in Washington, D.C., BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related