Speaking of award-worthy innovations, per the post below on The Scientist’s new project to name the top 10 life science innovations of 2008, check out the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s recent work. They have developed a way to transform “one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that [...]
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A message from our friends at The Scientist:
Did your company produce one of the year’s best innovations in life science? Do you know of an innovation that you think qualifies? If so, let us know!
The Scientist — the magazine that produces the annual Life Science Industry Awards, Best Places to Work surveys, and the Salary [...]
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Well this weekend is labor day and Fall is right around the corner and it’s high season for politics. This weekend the Democrats are in Denver nominating their candidate, Barack Obama and next week the Republicans will be in Minneapolis nominating John McCain.
Some of my colleagues from BIO are in Denver this week, [...]
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The current “elephant in the room” in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry is the fact that drug pipelines are suffering severely, resulting in a 20% decrease in Investigational New Drug (IND) filings just in the last two years. This is a vicious cycle, as it results downsizing of early R & D, causing many pharmas [...]
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Yes, you heard it here first. BIO is offering two free download sessions from the 2008 BIO International Convention.
The two sessions:
Confronting the Obesity Epidemic: The Skinny on Innovative New Treatments
Pursuing Multiple Financing and Liquidity Strategies
Go to http://www.cmcgc.com/temp/bio/landingpage.html
It’s easy, it’s free, and you may learn something, live.
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BIO invites industry leaders to submit proposals for breakout sessions at the 2009 BIO International Convention to be held May 18-21, 2009 in Atlanta, Ga.
The convention will feature more than 150 breakout sessions in 19 educational session tracks. New tracks for 2009 include Achieving Regulatory Approval, Biomarkers, Exciting Science 2009, Global Biotechnology Issues, Translational Medicine, [...]
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