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President-Elect Obama names Holdren, Varmus, Lander and Lubchenco to Key Scientific Posts

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As reported in Scientific American...President-elect Barack Obama recently named more top science advisors. John Holdren, a 64-year-old physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, will be his chief science adviser, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Obama also named chairs of the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology: Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus and biologist Eric Lander, who heads the Broad Institute, a… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Final Call: World's Best Technology (WBT) Showcase - Technology Submissions, December 22

There is still time to submit a company or technology for the upcoming WBTshowcase. This elite national event showcases prescreened, cutting-edge, first-to-market companies and technologies emanating from the private sector, top universities, federal labs, agencies and research institutions, to an audience of the world's leading seed investors, venture capitalists and Fortune 1000 licensing experts.



There is No Cost to Apply and a $595 registration fee for those selected to… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 17, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments

Next NIH Director Faces Budget Issues ... Health Agency Has Seen Funding Stall

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As reported in today's Washington Post...The director of the National Institutes of Health may be the least political of a president's political appointments.



The director's job is not to promote administration priorities -- in fact, it's the opposite. The chief, if unwritten, task is to keep the president and Congress from meddling with the agency.



The NIH this fiscal year will spend just under $29.5 billion on basic and applied medical research.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update - 13 December 2008

A message to all members of MedTechIQ



Colleagues,



We have been joined by new MedTechIQ members. They include:



Academia/ Not For Profit:



Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP: Humanitarian medicine, Disaster medicine, public health, outbreak epidemiology, austere communications, collaboration techniques, cross-functional team dynamics



Ron Marchessault: Medical Device Research and Development, Technology Commercialization



Phil Weinfurt:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

2 Weeks Left to Apply to Present at the 2009 World's Best Technologies (WBT) Tshowcase

Colleagues,



As related by MedTechIQ member, Paul Huleatt, CEO, Development Capital Networks (DCN),...

Anyone can reserve a conference room and sell exhibit space. But if you are serious about connecting with investors and licensees, the WBTshowcase is a competitive, proven, and must-attend event.



Applications have now been received from over 37 states and 19 countries including submissions from Johns Hopkins, Auburn University, National Research Council Canada,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 10, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

University-Private Sector Research Partnerships in the Innovation Ecosystem

Colleagues,



Excuse the 3rd message on this subject.



But, I have received 2 emails indicating that members were unable to find the link to the Presidential Council on Science and Technology report. It is an excellent and recent, November 2008, White House Report on Open Innovation and "Triple Helix" academic, industry, government partnerships.



In case you were unable to find the link, it… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 9, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Free Webinar...Startups in Uncertain Times, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer(NCET2)

Colleagues,



I know many of you do not need this seminar...you have already started your own, highly successful enterprises. In those cases, you may know an associate that may find this free webinar of use.



ENJOY!



CC

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Startups in Uncertain Times



An examination of emerging business and legal developments

in the startup market from the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 9, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Maryland, Virginia rank high as 'New Economy' states

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Washington Business Journal reports...Maryland is among the top five states in its progress advancing toward the “New Economy” — one based on innovation, creativity and technology — according to a study.



Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey top The 2008 State New Economy Index, released Tuesday by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Virginia was No. 7 on the list this year. D.C.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 20, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

New Recommended Books at MedTechIQ

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Colleagues,



New books recommended at MedTechIQ! http://medtechiq.ning.com/



- "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything", by Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya.



Sirkin, Hemerling and Bhattacharya argue that "Globality" is the next stage of globalization in which emerging-market companies, having rapidly absorbed the lessons of "Incumbent" businesses in North America, Europe… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 9, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Build a Better Health Care System & Win $10 Million

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Colleagues,



Interesting article posted in the Wall Street Journal Blog, http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/10/15/build-a-better-health-care-system-win-10-million/#comment-323079. It appears that the X PRIZE Foundation, the nation’s pre-eminent philanthropic organization focused on innovation through competition & the WellPoint Foundation, are initiating a $10 million bounty to generate new mechanisms to address the health care system… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 16, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Featured Members - Network News

A message to all members of MedTechIQ



Colleagues,



- From time to time, I am going to take the liberty to send out notes you may find useful.



- Rich Friedrich, Director, Open Innovation Office, HP Labs has just joined us. Rich is responsible for nurturing academic research relationships for Hewlett Packard. I visited with Rich in Palo Alto last week, great individual. Please welcome him aboard.



- Tim Gerritty at Cal State, San Bernadino, is funding… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 3, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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