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Biotech Center Grants Link Science to Marketplace

September 27, 2011 By: NCTechNews Category: Tech Transfer

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Technology transfer officials at three University of North Carolina System campuses are dividing $250,000 in North Carolina Biotechnology Center grant funding to advance the commercial development of discoveries made at their universities. (more…)

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NCTechNews Blogging Live at BIO International Convention June 27-30

June 01, 2011 By: David D. Menzies Category: Biochemical Profiling, Biofuels, Biomarkers, Biopharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Research Organization, Clinical Trials, Contract Research Organization, Drug Development, Drug Safety, Events, Government, Health Care, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Medical Technology, Medicine, Nonprofit, Pharmaceuticals, Research, Tech Transfer

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) NCTechNews, North Carolina’s technology news source, will be blogging live from the BIO International Convention in Washington, D.C. June 27-30 to cover major trends affecting the life sciences community. The BIO International Convention is the largest global event of its kind, attracting the biggest names in biotech and featuring keynotes and sessions from key policymakers, scientists, CEOs, and celebrities, and the world’s largest biotechnology exhibition - the BIO Exhibition. (more…)

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F.O.C.U.S.™ Resources Launches New Website for Innovation and Commercialization Services

February 09, 2011 By: David D. Menzies Category: Professional Services, Tech Transfer

(Cary, N.C.) International strategic business consulting firm F.O.C.U.S.(TM) Resources has launched its new corporate website, FocusResourcesInc.com, detailing popular new programs and services helping entrepreneurs commercialize scientific discoveries and build innovative private and public companies and nonprofit organizations. The nine-year-old firm has recently expanded its offerings for early stage and established companies seeking assistance with strategic financial and business management issues to include the Technovation Entrepreneur(TM) program for transitioning research and product ideas into real world applications. (more…)

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Lea Strickland Featured as Regular Columnist on TheStreet.com

August 19, 2010 By: David D. Menzies Category: Tech Transfer

(Cary, N.C.) President of the international strategic consulting firm F.O.C.U.S.(TM) Resources, Lea Strickland, MBA/CMA/CFM/CBM/GMC, has published her second column on innovation and entrepreneurship in the award-winning national financial media outlet TheStreet.com. Founded in 1996 by CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer, TheStreet.com receives over 7 million unique monthly visitors and 60 million page views each month. (more…)

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NU Tech 2010 to showcase medical device developments

February 01, 2010 By: NCTechNews Category: Events, Tech Transfer

(Durham, N.C.) Nu Tech 2010, a one-day conference focusing on investing in collaborative technologies (www.nutechshowcase.org), will include a presentation by Hitoshi Hitrata, Ph.D., M.D., a professor in the Department of Hand Surgery at Nagoya University. Hitrata will demonstrate two devices developed for use in the treatment of hand and foot injuries. (more…)

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  • Packaging Cures
    RTP-based advertising and branding firm The Marketing Machine helped overcome the issue of illiteracy among medical patients in Ghana, South Africa in designing packaging for the only manufacturer of anti-retroviral drugs in the region, creating individual icons and colors to help patients understand which drugs they needed, regardless of their ability to read.

    Broadband Stimulus
    Two grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are being used by MCNC to expand broadband connectivity and services throughout North Carolina and create more than 1,000 engineering and construction jobs, the organization said.

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    Defense Industry Gets More Competitive
    U.S. troop level decreases and shrinking armed forces budgets will lead to increased competition and a change in business operations for military contractors in North Carolina and throughout the nation, according to defense industry contracting expert Lea Strickland, requiring a more strategic and tactical approach to developing professional, properly-designed bid proposals.

    A Leg Up for Students
    Innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm Montie Design is holding a Winter 2012 Student Design Contest for aspiring product designers in community colleges, four-year colleges, or high schools from North Carolina and Virginia, starting February 1.

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    The leader in analytical instrumentation for the pharma manufacturing industry has named a new COO responsible for manufacturing, engineering, software development, and project management for hardware and software products such as the VTT-1000 multi-variant testing device, breaking down barriers to speeding-up the drug manufacturing pipeline and cutting-down on drug shortages.

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