NCBiotech News

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Please feel free to send special funding search requests any time (susan_craft@ncbiotech.org).  Also, let us know if any of your partners have submitted grant applications to funding announcements posted in the weekly grant alert emails.  We would love to hear of their successes!

Visit NCBiotech’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases and grant development tips.

Visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases and grant development tips!

Visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases, and grant development tips!

Visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases, and grant development tips!

If you have any special funding request searches, please feel free to send them any time (julie_king@ncbiotech.org).  Please also advise if any of your partners have submitted grant applications to funding announcements posted in the weekly grant alert emails.  We would love to hear of their successes!

Visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases, and grant development tips!

 An award-winning Charlotte biology teacher whose achievements have been highlighted by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center was one of five finalists for another national award.

Tamica Stubbs was a finalist for the Great American Teacher awards, a national teacher recognition program. The winner of the Teacher of the Year designation for 2010 is a California music educator.

Do you know a North Carolina university research lab with cutting-edge science that your company might be able to commercialize?

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center can help grease the skids -- especially for small bioscience researchers and companies across the state who can meet a Feb. 17 grant application deadline.

Vaccines have reducded deaths from once-common childhood diseases by 99 percent.

These public health lifesavers also save significant medical costs - each dollar spent on vaccinations for measles saves $10.30 in medical costs and $3.20 in societal costs.

You can get a great deal on a great deal of business intelligence -- if you act before November 1.

Bioscience companies throughout North Carolina can get reduced-price Internet access to scientific literature and market research, thanks to contract pricing arranged by the librarians at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. More than 430 people across the state are already taking advantage of the deal.

Pittsboro-based Biolex Therapeutics has expanded its longstanding business relationship with Georgia animal health products company Merial to use Biolex's unique duckweed system for developing animal vaccines.

The agreement is aimed at streamlining the vaccine production process by using Biolex's patented LEX System, which uses a genetically engineered form of lemna, the common aquatic plant known as duckweed, to create the proteins needed for vaccines.

A Research Triangle Park-based contract testing company is among the North Carolina firms working to reduce pollution problems from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

ILS, formerly known as Integrated Laboratory Systems, sent an emergency response team to the Gulf Coast on April 28, a week after the Deepwater Horizon platform and oil rig exploded, killing 11 and spewing destruction into the Gulf.

ILS' Environmental Services Assistance Team is normally housed in the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 4 facility in Athens, Georgia.

The Piedmont Triad region is positioned to absorb a large-scale recruitment project, according to the North Carolina Biopharma Manufacturing Labor Market Analysis. The analysis was put together by New Jersey-based site section and economic development consultants Biggins, Lacy, Shapiro & Co.

An initial $50 million licensing payment to High Point pharmaceutical developer TransTech Pharma could grow to more than $1.1 billion from Forest Laboratories.

TransTech, which won the North Carolina Biotechnology Economic Development Award in 2008, got the up-front money for signing a license agreement letting Forest develop and commercialize TransTech diabetes chemicals.