(Raleigh, N.C.) NagoyaUniversity (NU) and its North Carolina technology transfer office, Technology Partnership of Nagoya University (NU Tech), announced that Atsushi Enomoto, Ph.D., will make the opening technology presentation at the Diagnostics / Molecular Therapeutics Roundtable at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center on October 4, 2012. Dr.  Enomoto will present his latest research findings on Girdin, a novel actin-binding protein that has the potential for use as a new therapeutic drug and diagnostic compound for cancer, diabetic retinopathy and other diseases. Girdin is a regulator for cell migration that is essential for postnatal angiogenesis, neurogenesis and cancer progression. Among other things, Dr. Enomoto’s research has shown that inhibition of Girdin decreases the malignancy and transformation of breast cancer in mice, and may also suppress retinal angiogenesis in mice. Dr. Enomoto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.  His presentation on Girdin will be the first of five presentations to be made at the Diagnostics and Molecular Therapeutics Roundtable, an event being organized by NU Tech in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Wake Forest University (WFU). (more…)

(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…)

(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…)

(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…)

(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…)

(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…)