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Environmental Engineering Students and Faculty Study Passaic River Pollution
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection commissioned a study, conducted by students and faculty from Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers, to determine pollution loads in the Passaic River. - June 09, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
IO Informatics Launches Free Knowledge Explorer – Personal Edition to Deliver Integrated Data
IO Informatics, award-winning informatics software provider, today announced a program to provide free access to its product, Knowledge Explorer – Personal Edition. - June 08, 2011 - IO Informatics, Inc.
Dr. Marahelli G. Prasad of Stevens Serves as Guest Editor for Advances in Acoustics and Vibration
Dr. Marahelli G. Prasad has been invited to be a guest editor of Advances in Acoustics and Vibration for a special issue of the journal on reducing noise levels for psychological and physiological comfort. - June 08, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Clinical Trials in Russia. 1st Quarter 2011.
The Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation (alias MoH) approved 95 new clinical trials of all types including local studies during the first quarter of 2011, 29% less than in Q1 2010. - June 08, 2011 - Synergy Research Group
Stevens Student Research Protects Credit Card Owner Privacy
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology built a prototype for a software-defined radio system that defends credit card near-field communications chips from being read illegally. Their system was recognized with 3rd place at the RIT IEEE Student Design Competition in May. - June 04, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Scisense Offers Educational Webinar “Exploring Synergies Between Echo and Pressure-Volume Systems” Featuring Dr. Kim Connelly
Webinar attendees will learn both the advantages and challenges of echocardiography and PV loop analysis. - June 04, 2011 - Scisense Systems Inc.
IonSense Introduces the ID CUBE™ Source - to be Presented at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Annual Conference
Features OpenSpot™ Sample Card for Near-Instantaneous Analysis of Liquids and Solids. - June 03, 2011 - IonSense, Inc.
Stevens Conference Explores Latest Innovations in Antimicrobial Biomaterials Research
The Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions, June 9-10 in Hoboken, NJ, will cover the latest multi-disciplinary research in the area of infection-resistant biomaterials. - June 03, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Red Cedar Technology Enters Into Strategic Partnership with Applied Technology Integration
Red Cedar Technology (RCT) has entered into a strategic partnership with Applied Technology Integration (ATI) to expand RCT’s in-demand process automation services centered around HEEDS optimization software. “ATI, under the guidance of Craig Winn, a known leader in product design,... - June 03, 2011 - Red Cedar Technology
Colorado BioScience Association Applauds Boettcher Foundation on Announcing the Second Class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program
The Colorado BioScience Association applauds Boettcher Foundation on the announcement of its 2011 class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. The program, launched last year, provides for the discovery of new knowledge that improves human health through the investment in and advancement of early-career scientists. - June 01, 2011 - Colorado BioScience Association
Dr. Mitola of Stevens Enhances the Conversation at EastWest Institute Cybersecurity Summit
Cognitive radio inventor and VP for Research at Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Joseph Mitola is participating as a group moderator for the EastWest Institute Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit to be held in London, June 1-2. - May 29, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Colorado Bioscience Association Commends Governor John Hickenlooper's Signing of The Innovation Reinvestment Act
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed The Innovation Reinvestment Act, Senate Bill 47, into law at ceremonies held May 26th at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Initiated by the Colorado BioScience Association and Colorado Cleantech Industry Association, Senate Bill 47 provides up to $2 million annually to each industry, creating new companies and stimulating job growth based on promising discoveries made at the state’s major research institutions. - May 27, 2011 - Colorado BioScience Association
AnaSpec Introduces DPPIV Assay Kit
AnaSpec, EGT Group is pleased to introduce a new long wavelength fluorimetric assay kit for determining Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV (DPPIV) activity, the SensoLyte® Rh110 DPPIV Assay Kit. This kit contains a substrate that emits in the green range of 520 nm when cleaved by DPPIV. The kit provides a... - May 27, 2011 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
AnaSpec Introduces Speedy 28-Day Custom Polyclonal Antibody Service
When traditional protocols can take almost 90 days, the wait for high-quality custom polyclonal antibodies can be excruciating. AnaSpec is pleased to introduce the Speedy 28-day custom polyclonal antibody service. Leveraging proven technology from Eurogentec, AnaSpec's parent company, this protocol... - May 27, 2011 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
AnaSpec Introduces Anti- β-Amyloid
AnaSpec, Eurogentec Group is pleased to announce the release of two new mouse monoclonal antibodies specific for β-Amyloid (1-40) & (1-42). These two antibodies are of the IgG1 subtype and do not cross-react with each other at concentrations up to 50 ng/ml when tested in sandwich ELISA. - May 27, 2011 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
AnaSpec Offers High-Throughput Dispensing Service
AnaSpec, EGT Group is pleased to offer high-throughput dispensing service. Their commitment to supply the life science community with simple, affordable and innovative solutions has resulted in this service: bringing the advantages of automation within everyone’s reach. The fully equipped... - May 27, 2011 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
Mitegen Announces Mutual Distribution Agreements with Omscientia
Mitegen LLC, a provider of innovative consumables for X-ray diffraction, crystallography and protein crystallization to academic, pharmaceutical, industrial and government researchers around the world, announced that it has signed mutual non-exclusive distribution agreements with Omscientia, a... - May 26, 2011 - MiTeGen, LLC
AnaSpec Highlights MMP Inhibitors
AnaSpec, Eurogentec Group, is pleased to release 11 MMP inhibitors to complement their wide offering of MMP SensoLyte® 520 and 490 fluorimetric kits, colorimetric kits, recombinant proteins, and Z-Fish™ antibodies (antibodies specific for zebrafish). These MMP inhibitors are small... - May 25, 2011 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
PharmaJet's Heather Callender-Potters Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Mountain Desert Region Award Finalist
Selected by a panel of independent judges, the Entrepreneur of the Year award finalists are chosen based on their extraordinary success, vision and personal commitment to their business and community. - May 25, 2011 - PharmaJet, Inc.
Dr. Chandramouli of Stevens Invited to White House Communications Roundtable Discussion
Dr. Rajarathnam Chandramouli has been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion to develop the strategy for implementing President Obama's National Wireless Initiative. - May 22, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Bioo Scientific Honored with Export Award
Bioo Scientific received the 2011 Greater Austin Business Export Award. - May 22, 2011 - Bioo Scientific
Scisense Offers an Educational Webinar Titled "Peer-Review Expectations of PV Loop Data" Featuring Dr. Marc Feldman (MD, FACC), University of Texas
Webinar attendees will gain insights about validating PV loop data. - May 21, 2011 - Scisense Systems Inc.
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Integrating Your Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) with an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)
Leading provider of clinical trial, data, and drug safety solutions will explore two approaches to integrating your clinical trial management system with your electronic document management system. - May 19, 2011 - BioPharm Systems
Stevens Launches Game-Based Laboratory Environment
Stevens Institute of Technology professors have developed an online laboratory in which students learn by interacting in a virtual environment, much like massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) such as Half-life 2, The Sims, World of Warcraft, and Second Life. Two small-scale pilots ran in 2010 and 2011, with full-scale launch Fall Semester 2011. - May 19, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Knut Stamnes at Stevens Receives NASA Grant for Environmental Monitoring
Stevens Institute of Technology Physics Professor Dr. Knut Stamnes has been awarded a NASA grant for work on mathematical tools to monitor oceanic ecosystems via satellite. - May 19, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Leveraging Oracle's Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH) to Enable Dynamic Cross-study Analysis
Leading provider of clinical trial, data, and safety solutions will demonstrate how LSH allows users to dynamically select patient subpopulations and automatically deliver the longitudinal data for those subpopulations for detailed analysis. - May 15, 2011 - BioPharm Systems
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Completing and Approving Electronic Trip Reports in Siebel Clinical
Leading provider of clinical trial, data, and safety solutions will demonstrate how site visit SOPs can be translated into electronic trip report templates in Siebel Clinical, and then completed, reviewed, and approved – entirely electronically. - May 15, 2011 - BioPharm Systems
Dr. Dawn Digrius Researches Water Resources Management in Coastal Lowland Ecuador
Dr. Digrius is leading a student team from Stevens Institute of Technology to explore the interplay of engineered dams and the history of a people in coastal lowland Ecuador. - May 14, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
TransEnterix Receives Global Entrepreneurial TiE50 Award
For demonstrating ingenuity and innovation as a life-science startup company, TransEnterix has received the prestigious TiE50 Award for 2011. The TiE50 Awards are given each year by TiE, the organizer of TiEcon, the world’s largest annual conference for entrepreneurs. One of 10 winners in... - May 14, 2011 - TransEnterix
ALPCO Diagnostics' Partnership with Electra-Box Diagnostica AB Looks to the Future of American-Swedish Research Collaborations
It is a long-standing tradition in the scientific research community for researchers to engage in collaborative studies spanning international borders. In keeping with this spirit, and with a desire to foster international collaboration, ALPCO Diagnostics is pleased to announce that they have entered into a distribution agreement with Electra-Box Diagnostica AB of Sweden. - May 13, 2011 - ALPCO
Ethics Bowl Brings the Debate to Stevens
Stevens will host its Annual High School Ethics Bowl on June 2 in Hoboken. - May 13, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing LLC Honored for Corporate Efforts to Protect Integrity of Rio Grande
OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC, has received the Pollution Prevention Award for its efforts to protect water quality in the Rio Grande River. The honor was awarded by the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility as part of its Pollution Prevention Program (P2 Program). The P2... - May 13, 2011 - OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC
Eagle Biosciences Announces the Launch of Mouse Monoclonal Antibody Isotyping ELISA Kit
Eagle Biosciences introduces a simple ELISA where up to 12 individual samples can be assayed for heavy chain anti-IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, IgA, and IgM as well as light chain kappa and lambda in one 96-well ELISA plate. - May 11, 2011 - Eagle Biosciences, Inc.
Cognitive Radio Inventor Dr. Joseph Mitola of Stevens Received IEEE Award
Dr. Joseph Mitola, founder of cognitive radio and VP of Research at Stevens Institute of Technology, received the IEEE TCCN Recognition Award at IEEE DySPAN in Aachen. - May 11, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Entrepreneurial Stevens Students Design Bicycle Sharing System
Smart Pedals, a bicycle sharing Senior Design project, has spawned into a business for three Mechanical Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology. - May 09, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
BioPharm Systems Joins Oracle Accelerate Program with Oracle Accelerate Solution Based on Oracle’s Siebel Clinical Trial Management System
ASCEND Delivers Life Sciences Companies a Robust and Cost-effective Enterprise-level CTMS Solution - May 09, 2011 - BioPharm Systems
Students at Stevens Gain Start-Up Experience
CADeyes, a new technology developed at Stevens Institute of Technology is capable of creating 2 and 3-dimensional maps of buildings with ease at a low cost. Now, Business and Technology students at Stevens are mapping their own futures, using the experience they gained with a start-up company... - May 06, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Cheaper, Greener, Alternative Energy Storage at Stevens
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology are working on a supercapacitor that will allow us to harness more solar energy through biochar electrodes for supercapacitors, resulting in a cleaner, greener planet. - May 06, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Center for Science Writings Gives Green Book Award to James Hansen
On April 27, the Center for Science Writings (CSW) at Stevens Institute of Technology presented its annual Green Book Award to leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen, for his 2010 book Storms of My Grandchildren. Following the award presentation by CSW Director John Horgan, Dr. Hansen treated the... - May 06, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
NEXTflex Small RNA Sequencing Kit for NGS Library Prep Launched
Bioo Scientific’s new patent pending NEXTflex™ Small RNA Sequencing Kit offers an easy, flexible, cost-effective solution for generating libraries from small RNA. - May 05, 2011 - Bioo Scientific
Stevens Senior Design Team Builds Business Model for Online Deception Detection Technology
A Stevens Senior Design Team took 3rd place in Student Elevator Pitch Competition with their business plan and presentation for the software ScamScout, a deception detection program for Web users. - May 04, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Mitegen Announces Mutual Distribution Agreements with NatX-ray
Improving customer access to industry leading products from both companies. - April 30, 2011 - MiTeGen, LLC
Students Design New York City Tunnel at Stevens Institute of Technology
Civil Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology are working on the design of a section of the East Side access tunnel which will bring more Long Island Rail Road trains into New York City. - April 30, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Students Design Pennsylvania Bridge at Stevens Institute of Technology
Civil Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology designed a two-lane replacement for the current one-lane bridge over Skippack Creek. The project is sponsored and evaluated by The Louis Berger Group, Inc. - April 30, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Senior Projects Exposition Showcases Student Achievement at Stevens Institute of Technology
On April 27, Stevens Institute of Technology hosted its annual Senior Projects Expo, a showcase of the senior year design projects of the graduating seniors from the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science, the Howe School of Technology Management, and the School of Systems and... - April 30, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Senior Design Team Delivers Free Power to Wireless Devices
A Stevens Senior Design team is using piezoelectric generators to power wireless devices and capture emerging market potential. - April 30, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Team Gears Up for Formula SAE Race
Stevens Formula SAE Racecar team is gearing up for the SAE International student competition on May 11-14 in Brooklyn, Michigan. - April 30, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology
SalesForce4Hire’s Kevin Schimelfenig to Speak at AdvaMed Emerging Growth Company Conference
Custom Sales Solutions Executive to Discuss Successful Product Launch Strategies - April 30, 2011 - SalesForce4Hire
2006 MIT $100K Business Plan Winner - Semprus BioSciences - Hosts Final Judging Round for 2011 Life Sciences Competitors
Semprus BioSciences today announced it will host the final round of judging for the Life Sciences Track of the 2011 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition on Monday, May 2. The five finalist teams will pitch their business plans to a judging panel that includes Semprus Chief Technology Officer... - April 30, 2011 - Semprus BioSciences
Stevens Thoracic Catheter Senior Design Team Takes 1st Place at Regional ISPE Competition
On April 21, Stevens students took 1st place at the regional International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) Student Poster Competition for their novel thoracic catheter design. - April 29, 2011 - Stevens Institute of Technology