The study will expand Dr. Melissa Halpern’s previous research findings that identified changes in intestinal bile acid levels in neonatal rats that develop NEC, compared with those that did not develop the disease.Continue reading
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Job Alert: Senior Research Development and Commercialization Associate at NAU
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Northern Arizona University
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Senior Research Development and Commercialization Associate
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The Senior Research Development and Commercialization Associate is charged with sourcing, building and maintaining strong, productive relationships with faculty, staff and student researchers and innovators-as well as with existing/prospective licensees, industry partners, entrepreneurs, and the local, regional and national innovation management community-for the purpose of catalyzing research and technology development and pushing university innovations from the lab to the marketplace. The Senior Research Development and Commercialization Associate participates in decision-making associated with institutional-level research investments and also manages an assigned portfolio of technologies from initial invention disclosure through the commercial life of the technologies. Reports to the Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President for Research and Director of NAU Innovations (one individual).
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Michael S. Gordon, MD named medical director for Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials at Scottsdale Healthcare
Will oversee Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center’s internationally recognized Phase I clinical trials programContinue reading
GSK Buys Novartis Vaccine Business
GSK announces major 3-part transaction with Novartis to drive sustainable sales growth, improve long-term earnings and deliver increasing returns to shareholdersContinue reading
ASU engineers help make advances in virtual artificial heart implantation
Some firsts in the history of artificial heart implantation are being achieved by an Arizona State University research group and medical professionals at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.Continue reading
A Conversation with Lee Hartwell: ‘This is the era of DNA’
It’s not every day that you get the chance to sit down face-to-face with a Nobel Laureate. But that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, when about 150 Arizona biotechnology movers and shakers shook it up with Leland “Lee” Hartwell, PhD, at the AZBio Leadership Conversation luncheon at the Phoenix Country Club.Continue reading
Dr. AJ Milici appointed Flagship Biosciences’ Head of Biology
Flagship Biosciences announced on April 3, 2014 that Dr. Anthony J. Milici has been appointed Head of Biology. Dr. Milici brings over 30 years of pharmaceutical drug development experience in the areas of neurodegenerative disease, inflammation, and oncology.Continue reading
21-Year-Old Leaves Hospital with a Kidney Saved by the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart
“I was completely shocked,” recalls Tiernee Gonzalez of Ohio. “I found out that it wasn’t the end, that I had another chance at life.”Continue reading
Scientists at the UA Make Critical End-Stage Liver Disease Discovery
The discovery of an unknown cellular pathway has helped scientists and physicians better understand end-stage liver disease and offers a potential target for new therapeutics.Continue reading
Ulthera files for $86M IPO
Ulthera, which sells ultrasound energy systems for the non-invasive lifting of eyebrows and skin around the neck, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $86 million in an initial public offering.Continue reading