Biotechnology Center News Releases

08/27/08Grants Boost 12 Campuses Statewide

Students across the state will see the benefit of more than a half-million dollars in grants from the Biotechnology Center.

08/14/08COI Natural Biotech Award Made

A Biotechnology Center grant for $100,000 will help a statewide consortium develop products in natural biotechnology and integrative medicine.

08/12/08North Carolina Biotechnology Center Announces Company Sponsors for New Industrial Fellowship

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has announced the five sponsoring companies chosen for the first year of its Industrial Fellowship Program. The companies chosen are: Affinergy Inc. in Durham, which is focused on site-specific biological delivery systems (www.affinergy.com); Aldagen Inc....

07/10/08Biotech Center Fellowships Link Academic Scientists, Industry

Biotechnology Center launches fellowship program to help academic scientists move into the state's life science companies.

06/24/08Sleeping Sickness Forum Set

Scientists, researchers, academics and global health leaders from around the world will meet at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Friday, June 27 from 2 to 4 p.m. to discuss ways to tackle human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, commonly...

06/10/08Chapel Hill Genomics Workshop Capacity Increased to 25 - Register Now!

Genomics and Bioinformatics: Teaching with Model Organisms has increased its registration capacity to 25. The workshop, which is intended for both high school and college faculty, will cover key technologies supporting genomic science, and applications of this science in medicine...

06/09/08Openings available in Introductory Biotechnology Workshops in Wilmington, Asheville

The 2008 Biotechnology Workshops for Educators will hold its Wilmington workshop June 16-20 at UNC-Wilmington. This workshop is an introductory biotechnology course for North Carolina high school teachers. Participants will learn basic scientific concepts and techniques in biotechnology, as well...

05/12/08Biofuels Center Celebrates Grand Opening

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina held its Grand Opening Friday, May 9 at its facility in Oxford. The state-funded, non-profit center plans to develop a statewide alternative-fuels industry in an effort to reduce dependence on imported oil. Nowhere else...

05/08/08Biotechnology Center Taps Chris Brodie to Lead Communications

Scientist and editor Chris Brodie, Ph.D., has joined the North Carolina Biotechnology Center as vice president of corporate communications.

04/29/08Syngenta Wins Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Award

Syngenta received the third annual Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Award given by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the Biofuels Center of North Carolina.

04/17/08North Carolina Biotechnology Center Hosts Forum With Leaders From Denmark, Norway, Sweden

The first major forum to bring North Carolina biotechnology developers and policy makers together with Scandinavian counterparts to explore potential science, policy and business relationships will be held next Monday and Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden. The event, Building Northern Biotechnology:...

04/17/08Award Launched to Honor Martin Lancaster

The H. Martin Lancaster Biotechnology Faculty of the Year Award was unveiled Tuesday night at the Biotechnology Center. The annual award provides $500 for classroom supplied and equipment for the recipient, who will be one of the N.C. Community College System's biotechnology instructors.

04/11/08Openings Available in Protein Expression (GFP), Biodiversity and Genomics Workshops

These three special topics workshops, in addition to five introductory biotechnology workshops, are scheduled across North Carolina this summer. This marks the Biotechnology Center's 21st year of educating classroom teachers in biotechnology. Those 1400 teachers have introduced thousands of students...

04/09/08Registration Open for Summer Educator Workshops

The 21st year of Biotechnology Center summer workshops includes five introductory and three special topics workshops across the state.

04/02/08Center Grant Program Named for Oliver Smithies

The grant program will now be known as The Oliver Smithies Faculty Recruitment Grant Program. The announcement was made last week at a reception honoring the achievements of Smithies, other Biotechnology Center faculty recruits, and student science fair competition winners.

03/25/08Metabolon Signs Into Boston Study Of Warfarin Gene

RTP-based Metabolon ties into Boston group's study of genetic variability in warfarin's effects.

03/13/08Salix Buys GI Products from German Drug Maker

Raleigh-based Salix Pharmaceuticals has purchased rights to several gastrointestinal disease therapies from Dr. Falk Pharma

03/12/08Phase Bio Secures $1M Equipment Loan

Phase Bioscience, a Durham-based development stage biotechnology company that is relocating to new headquarters and lab facilities in Morrisville, has closed on a $1 million secured equipment loan with SVB Silicon Valley Bank. The funding is the latest in a...

02/28/08Attagene Technology Profiled in Online Journal

Attagene's technology to look at genes currently active in a cell is highlighted in a Nature research journal.

02/04/08Yonnie Butler to Direct Statewide Biobusiness Development

Business development consultant Yonnie Butler has joined the North Carolina Biotechnology Center as Business Development Director in the Business and Technology Development unit.Butler has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, contract research and consulting industries. In his...

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