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Agennix announces corporate restructuring

Friday, August 24, 2012 02:48 PM

Agennix has announced a restructuring that involves staff reductions of approximately 55% of the company's workforce. The restructuring is being implemented to conserve cash as management determines the company’s next strategic steps.

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Transgenomic awarded NIH STTR grant for pancreatic cancer research

Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:15 AM

Transgenomic,an Omaha, Neb.-based global biotechnology company focused on personalized medicine, has been awarded a $100,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) phase I grant by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences.

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Penn State awarded $1M to fund cancer-fighting technology research

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:31 AM

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Adventrx names Vetticaden as chief medical officer

Monday, August 20, 2012 04:01 PM

Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, has appointed Santosh J. Vetticaden, M.D., Ph.D., as chief medical officer and senior vice president.

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Radiant Sage receives Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan

Monday, August 20, 2012 03:27 PM

Radiant Sage, a provider of on-demand clinical trial image management solutions based in Belmont, Mass., has received the Frost & Sullivan 2012 Customer Value Enhancement Award for its clinical trial image management solutions.

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Astellas Pharma Europe appoints Wood as senior director, market access

Monday, August 20, 2012 03:21 PM

Astellas Pharma Europe, the European subsidiary of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma, has appointed Dr, Susan Wood as senior director, market access.

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Breast cancer drug market will be driven by 3 agents, says Decision Resources

Monday, August 20, 2012 02:18 PM

Three new breast cancer market entrants—Roche/Genentech’s Perjeta (pertuzumab) and trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1), and Novartis’s Afinitor (everolimus)—will drive growth in the breast cancer market through 2021, according to Decision Resources, a research and advisory firm for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues.

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Thirty teams compete to interpret three families' genomes

Monday, August 20, 2012 12:08 PM

In a contest led by Boston Children's Hospital, 30 teams from around the world are vying to interpret the DNA sequences of three children with rare conditions whose cause remains a mystery—with the goal of establishing "best practices" for interpreting genomic data.

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Biogen Idec Foundation donates $100,000 to Teach for America STEM education

Monday, August 20, 2012 09:22 AM

The Biogen Idec Foundation andTeach For America have formed a new collaboration in support of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education.

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Biomedical Systems to collaborate with Mass. General Hospital

Friday, August 17, 2012 03:19 PM

The imaging division of Biomedical Systems, a global provider of centralized diagnostic services, has formed a collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to evaluate the efficacy of new drugs and devices.

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