All Blog Posts Tagged 'helix' (26)

Drugmakers and Academia Should Collaborate More, Scientist Says (Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder Maini, scientists from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College London have won the second Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. The pair was honored by J&J for work that paved the way for drugs called TNF inhibitors, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 12, 2008 at 9:19pm — No Comments

Hewlett Packard Announces 41 Awardees in New Academic Research Program

HP announced 41 professors it has selected to receive its HP Labs Innovation Research Awards which fund strategic joint research projects between academic research institutions worldwide and HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

As part of a newly announced open and competitive process that reviewed more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries spanning the globe, HP selected 41 projects… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on August 24, 2008 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Pension funds & university endowments put more money into venture capital than a year ago

Despite dismal IPO market for VC backed start-ups, big buck investors (limited partners) continue to pour money into venture capital funds. As reported in the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's hometown newspaper, 71 VC funds raised $9.1 billion nationwide in the second quarter of 2008 - a 3 percent increase over the $8.8 million raised in the second quarter of 2007. What is most interesting about this report, to me, is that… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 15, 2008 at 7:41pm — No Comments

Who are the Technology Rich States - in the US?

The Milken Institute State Technology and Science Index, which ranks states based on their technology and science capacity to contribute to economic development, placed: 1) Massachusetts, 2) Maryland, 3) Colorado, 4) California, 5) Washington, 6) Virginia, 7) Connecticut, 8) Utah, 9) New Hampshire, 10) Rhode Island.

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 9, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pfizer & Glaxo Ink Multi-Million Dollar R&D Deals with Academia

Biotech Transfer Week reports that Pfizer and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) are continuing the trend toward the pharmaceutical industry funding large partnerships with academic research institutions to invigorate their innovation pipelines. The full Ben Butkus article is an excellent overview of recent initiatives by industry to leverage academic discovery.

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 4, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The imperative to pursue academic, government, industry collaboration in accelerating advanced medical technology translation

To sustain competitiveness recent studies indicate that we need to apply new models of life science collaboration between academic generators of innovation & IP, industry colonizers that take the risk out of innovation, consolidators that have global reach in distribution, marketing & access to public capital, and government for the funding of basic research/applied research and the regulation of new technology to the market.

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 19, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments