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ITCES Renames AVT-12 Weight Loss Combination Drug Product, Obestrin®
After a successful performance in the recently concluded year-long efficacy controlled trial, AVT-12, a combination drug product intended for weight loss, has been redesignated Obestrin® in preparation for the marketplace. The name Obestrin® is particularly appropriate, given the new... - March 07, 2010 - ITCES Corporation
ITCES Corporation Releases Results of Year-Long AVT-12 Weight Loss Controlled Trial
One-year Findings from Controlled Trial of AVT-12 Combination Drug Product on Weight Loss and Various Metabolic Risk Factors - March 06, 2010 - ITCES Corporation
AVT-12 Weight Loss Drug Product Study Concludes
The weight loss combination drug product, AVT-12 has most recently been the subject of a year-long phase III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled efficacy trial, conducted by ITCES Corporation. - March 05, 2010 - ITCES Corporation
Congenix Adds Russian Presence to Health Decisions’ Agile Clinical Network
CRO based in Moscow joins Health Decisions’ worldwide network of research organizations dedicated to maximizing the efficiency of global trials - March 04, 2010 - Health Decisions
Dynamic Pressure Sensors Made Using Piezoresistive E-Fabrics
Eeonyx Corporation announces the development and availability of specialty engineered conductive fabrics with pressure sensing (piezoresistive) properties for commercial and industrial markets. Previous Eeonyx developments include engineered, electrically conductive fabrics (E-Fabrics), sold under... - March 04, 2010 - Eeonyx Corporation
ITCES Innovator of the Year Award Presented
The ITCES Innovator of the Year Award 2009 has been presented to Dr. David Klein for his recent work in unified algorithmic theory. ITCES Director, Thomas Schwartz made the award presentation. “It is my honor to present the 2009 ITCES Innovator of the Year Award to Dr. David Klein. Our... - March 03, 2010 - ITCES Corporation
Sepideh Asefnia Appointed to North Carolina Department of Commerce Economic Development Board
Sepideh Asefnia, president of SEPI Engineering & Construction (www.sepiengineering.com), has been appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue to the 2010 North Carolina Department of Commerce Economic Development Board. The North Carolina Economic Development Board oversees state economic development research... - March 03, 2010 - SEPI Engineering Group
AMI International Teams with Jacob Fleming Conferences as Market Information Partner for International OPV 2010
AMI International announced today it has joined Jacob Fleming Conferences as the official Market Information Partner for the International Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) conference to be held 19-21 May in Brussels. As the first ever dedicated market information partner for this conference, AMI will... - March 02, 2010 - AMI International
Stevens Institute of Technology Students are Finalists in CIMIT Competition
A multi-disciplinary team of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering seniors at Stevens Institute of Technology are finalists in the 2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare Competition. Pete Backeris, dual major and team member, coordinated the BME and ECE teams to submit a proposal for the Digital Triage Assistant (DTA) project to the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) prize competition. - March 01, 2010 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Translational Regenerative Medicine Event to Feature Venture Forum
A spray-on skin product and an injectable cell therapy for heart attack patients are among 17 regenerative medicine technologies that will be showcased during the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Representatives from 17 startup biotech companies... - March 01, 2010 - Regenerative Medicine Foundation
Family Dynamics- Parenting a Child with TS and Associated Disorders
New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome presents no-cost webinar to families on March 3rd - February 27, 2010 - New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome
Dr. Yingying Chen Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Yingying Chen of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology was recently given The National Science Foundation’s highly competitive peer accolade, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her research, “Enhancing the Security of Pervasive Wireless Networks by Exploiting Location.” This funding is part of a continuing grant which goes into effect on March 1st, 2010. - February 26, 2010 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Paragon Innovations Presents First Place Award at Texas A&M MBA Tech Transfer Challenge
Paragon Innovations continues its first place sponsorship Challenge by presenting $3,000 to the winning team of the MBA Tech Transfer of Texas A&M Mays Business School’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship. - February 25, 2010 - Paragon Innovations, Inc.
Eeonyx Corporation Breakthroughs in Static Free Anti-Bacterial Fabric
Eeonyx Corporation today announced the development and availability of specialty engineered conductive fabrics with anti-bacterial properties for commercial and industrial markets. Previous Eeonyx developments include engineered conductive fabrics, sold under the EeonTex™ name, for... - February 25, 2010 - Eeonyx Corporation
New White Paper Reports the Five Essentials for Minimizing Clinical Development Risk
CRO Health Decisions explains how a systematic risk mitigation system can prevent undue FDA rejection - February 20, 2010 - Health Decisions
Dr. Alan Blumberg Featured on National Geographic February 18, 10PM
This Thursday, February 18th at 10PM EST, Dr. Alan Blumberg of Stevens Institute of Technology will participate in the National Geographic Channel Program entitled “Naked Science.” The program chronicles scientific investigations into several of the biggest mysteries of our time. It is... - February 18, 2010 - Stevens Institute of Technology
UXalliance Speakers to Headline User Experience Masterclass in Auckland
User Experience Alliance (UXalliance) partners, Optimal Usability, have invited an international panel of speakers for a one-day User eXperience Masterclass. - February 18, 2010 - User Experience Alliance
WDT Brings New Live Video Streaming Opportunities to Storm Chasers and Broadcast Markets
Streaming tornado, hurricane, severe storm and archive footage distribution at no cost to news organizations. - February 14, 2010 - Weather Decision Technologies
NewsOK Weatherwatch iPhone Application Launches in Time for Okalahoma Severe Weather Storms
New iPhone Application, NewsOK weatherwatch, Provides Vital Weather Information. - February 12, 2010 - Weather Decision Technologies
Silicon Kinetics Announces New Biosensor Chips with Wide Palette of Surface Chemistries
The world's first 3D biosensor surface for label-free biomolecular interaction analysis now offers surface chemistries for: carboxyl, streptavidin, benzaldehyde, NTA-Ni for His-tagged proteins, Protein A and Protein G for coupling antibodies. - February 08, 2010 - Silicon Kinetics, Inc.
Bioo Scientific Facilitates Rapid Screening of Gluten, Egg Powder and Poultry for Melamine
Bioo Scientific’s MaxSignal® Melamine Enzymatic Assay has validated sample prep procedures for the rapid screening of whole egg powder, poultry meat, wheat gluten, pig feed and chicken feed for melamine contamination. - February 08, 2010 - Bioo Scientific
International Medical Association Publishes Guidelines for Tracking Safety of Adult Stem Cell Procedures
International medical association publishes landmark best practices guidelines that define the methodology for tracking patient safety and outcomes after stem cell treatments. - February 05, 2010 - International Cellular Medicine Society
Health Decisions Exceeds Goals for Universal Flu Vaccine Study
CRO completed startup and enrollment of Phase II study in less than three months. - February 05, 2010 - Health Decisions
Noesys Data Adds Seasoned Industry Veteran to Bolster Sales
Noesys Data announced today that Thomas Bennett, a 15 year veteran in physiological data collection and analysis market, has joined its team to deliver its unique solutions to the scientific research community. - February 03, 2010 - Noesys Data
Biomarker Discovery Grant Deadline Extended
RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc. - February 02, 2010 - RayBiotech, Inc
HT PARP in Vivo Pharmacodynamic Assay II
Trevigen announces a validated assay, with higher sensitivity and pre-coated antibody plates to measure the effectiveness of PARP inhibitors in cell and tissue lysates for anticancer drug screening. - February 02, 2010 - Trevigen, Inc.
Role of YAP in Cancer Revealed Using EGFR Phosphorylation Array
A study, published in the December 2009 issue of Nature Cell Biology, identified amphiregulin (AREG) as the key effector molecule in YAP-mediated proliferation of breast epithelial cells. Since AREG is a a diffusible, secreted factor, it represents a new potential drug target for cancer. Two antibody arrays from RayBiotech were instrumental in this discovery; one is a unique array detecting phosphorylation of EGFR family receptors at multiple sites. - January 29, 2010 - RayBiotech, Inc
To Usability Labs, and Beyond! New Book Explores Online User Experience Studies
Usability experts and authors Bill Albert, Tom Tullis and Donna Tedesco have launched the first guide for conducting large-scale user experience research using the Internet. Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-scale Online User Experience takes practitioners out of the ordinary... - January 28, 2010 - User Experience Alliance
Health Decisions CEO Authors First Complete Guide to Adaptive Clinical Research
Wiley Publishers Releases “The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research: Optimizing Efficiency in Clinical Development,” by Michael Rosenberg, MD, MPH. - January 25, 2010 - Health Decisions
Bioo Scientific Launches Barcoded Adapters for Sample Multiplexing in Next Generation Sequencing
Bioo Scientific launched AIR™ Barcoded Adapters which allow sample multiplexing in miRNA Next-Generation Sequencing reactions, thus decreasing costs by increasing the number of samples that can be run at the same time. - January 25, 2010 - Bioo Scientific
Blue Sky Biotech and Protein Attachment Technologies Announce Global Exclusive Licensing Agreement
Blue Sky Biotech, Inc. (Blue Sky) and Protein Attachment Technologies, LLC (PA Tech) announced today that they have entered into a global, exclusive license agreement covering PA Tech’s proprietary Template Directed Assembly (TDA™) technology for use in High-Throughput Screening [HTS] of drug candidates against membrane-associated protein targets. - January 24, 2010 - Blue Sky Biotech
Proteome Solutions Announces ProteinID Finder Version 1.8.0
ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. The release of v1.8 adds new powerful graphing capabilities to Proteome Solutions ProteinID Finder. - January 13, 2010 - Proteome Solutions
ForeFlight Launches ForeFlight Mobile 3 for iPhone with Weather Powered by WDT
Best-Selling Aviation Application Lets Pilots Gather Preflight Intelligence and Improve Situational Awareness Faster and Easier Than Ever Before. - January 12, 2010 - Weather Decision Technologies
Adaptive Clinical Research is Expanding Opportunities in Personalized Medicine: CED Invites Health Decisions to Discuss
Health Decisions CEO Dr. Michael Rosenberg will forecast the future of molecular testing at the CED 2010 Biotech Conference - January 09, 2010 - Health Decisions
XTractor Premium Has Surpassed the 523,127 Relationships Milestone as Forward-Looking Researchers Around the World Invest in XTractor Premium Technology
Life Science researchers of all areas, increasingly are selecting XTractor Premium over competing solutions for its manually annotated approach to relationships from the latest PUBMED publications, Regular E-mail alerts on scientific literature and Highly Advanced Semantic and Bibliographic Search. - December 28, 2009 - Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.
PMI Announces Dates for First 2010 Short Course
Porous Materials, Inc. (PMI) is happy to announce the dates for it's first Short Course for the new year. The course, titled "Advanced Techniques for Pore Structure Characterization; Theory & Practice," will be held during the week of May 11-13, 2010. The PMI Short Course brings... - December 25, 2009 - Porous Materials, Inc.
Direct Oncology Foundation Seeks $100,000 to Sequence Genome of Cancer-Proof Mouse
Direct Oncology Foundation and Livly, both California non-profit corporations, seek funding to sequence the genome of cancer proof mice developed at Wake Forest University. - December 23, 2009 - Direct Oncology Foundation
Wiley Press to Release 'The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research: Optimizing Efficiency in Clinical Development'
Michael Rosenberg, MD, MPH, provides a comprehensive guide to the adaptive methods that are shaping the future of clinical trials - December 19, 2009 - Health Decisions
Medical Society Announces Publication of Largest Stem Cell Safety Study to Date
The ICMS announces the publication of the largest stem cell safety study. Using the guidelines put forward by the ICMS, 227 patients were followed for complications after receiving adult stem cell therapies using a novel new protocol. No serious complications were reported. - December 19, 2009 - International Cellular Medicine Society
Nationwide Trade Show Series at Universities Focuses on Photonics
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. announces the addition of Physics and Photonics-specific shows to their popular series of tabletop expositions at top research universities across the country. - December 19, 2009 - Biotechnology Calendar, Inc.
Corporate and Academic Affiliates Join the UXalliance, Expand Capabilities
SSB BART Group and Bentley University have been added as the newest User Experience Alliance (www.UXalliance.com) members, enhancing the international user research network to a total of 22 companies across the globe. The network’s first corporate member, SSB BART Group... - December 17, 2009 - User Experience Alliance
Genescient Receives Additional Angel Funding
Genescient Corporation receives an additional $500,000 in angel funding. - December 17, 2009 - Genescient Corporation
Vestas Chooses Weather Decision Technologies Lightning Decision Support System for Wind Energy Farms
Lightning display and predictions keeps wind energy crews safe, provides critical data for cost avoidance. - December 16, 2009 - Weather Decision Technologies
PDA and BPSA to Speak at IQPC's 2nd Annual Disposable Solutions for Biomanufacturing Conference
IQPC is delighted to announce the dates for the 2nd Annual Disposable Solutions for Biomanufacturing taking place in London on the 23rd-24th February 2010. The use of single-use systems within bioprocessing and manufacturing is one area within the pharmaceutical industry that constantly sees exciting developments and this year is no exception. - December 16, 2009 - IQPC
University of California, San Francisco, Researcher Receives ASBMB-Merck Award
James A. Wells, professor and chairman of the department pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF's small molecule discovery center, has been named the winner of the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Merck Award for his... - December 12, 2009 - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RayBiotech Introduces Multiplex ELISA Detecting 200 Human Proteins
RayBiotech, the Protein Array Pioneer Company, has just introduced the Quantibody® Human Cytokine Array 4000 (or Human Q4000, catalog number QAH-CAA-4000), which can quantitatively detect expression of 200 different proteins in a single experiment. The kit consists of 5 different quantitative... - December 12, 2009 - RayBiotech, Inc
Bioo Scientific Launches Kit for Targeted siRNA Delivery Into Any Cell Type
Bioo Scientific announced the launch of their T3™ Conjugation Kit, which allows scientists to deliver siRNA into targeted cell types. - December 12, 2009 - Bioo Scientific
Industry Leaders to Discuss the Future of Predictive Toxicology
www.predictivetoxicology.co.uk IQPC has confirmed the attendance of 20 internationally renowned experts at their Predictive Toxicology Conference, taking place in London on 24th- 25th February 2010. High calibre professionals presenting at the event include: - Dr Andrew Worth, Project Leader... - December 11, 2009 - IQPC
Michael Wilkinson Joins Advisory Council of Texas A&M Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship
Paragon Innovations’ CEO, Michael Wilkinson, joins CNVE Advisory Council -- dedicated to help Center prepare students for the challenge of entrepreneurship - December 09, 2009 - Paragon Innovations, Inc.
D.I.S.S. Announces Rocky Mountain Laboratories Selects ITS for NHP Telemetry Based Biodefense and Infectious Disease Research
Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, MT, part of the NIAID, has chosen ITS (Integrated Telemetry Systems) as the supplier for non-human primate (NHP) telemetry hardware and data collection and analysis software to operate in its BSL-4 primate telemetry facilities. This makes the RML the... - December 05, 2009 - D.I.S.S., LLC