Archive for the ‘Research Triangle Park’ Category
TEDxTriangle: Old techniques and new technology to harness ideas
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:38 pmFeeling dull and uninspired? Try to practice selflessness like a Trappist monk. Play a video game that does more than entertain. Doodle.
The three tips could have come from self-help books, a consultant or a mentor. Instead, they came from the first TED talk in the Research Triangle Park area. The all-day, free event Saturday at RTP headquarters attracted more than 150 people, who on a sunny and balmy winter day sat inside, listened, did the wave and talked to people they had never met before.
Amy Calhoun
Durham couple Amy and Eric Calhoun organized TEDxTriangle, an offshoot of the TED conference, over the past 10 months using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook to recruit speakers. In the spirit of TED, whose motto is “ideas worth spreading,” TEDxTriangle brought together local speakers willing to share their ideas and insights.
“We’ve been TED fans for a long time,” said Amy Calhoun, who runs a management consulting business. The goal of the conference, she said, was to get attendees excited, plant seeds of passion and help people connect to solve problems. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 3/1
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 6:35 pmEvents taking place the week of March 1 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
Fight against cancer gets personal
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 8:43 pmThe pink ribbon, the icon for breast cancer awareness, and symbols representing other cancers may soon be outdated.
The symbols of tomorrow may cut across types of cancer and stand for a common protein whose long name includes the word kinase, a receptor on a cell’s surface where chemical messages attach, or a virus that is found in up to 80 percent of U.S. adults. Whatever people will identify with to support cancer research, prevention and treatment, it may no longer have anything to do with where the tumor is.
Dr. Duane Mitchell
If that is difficult to imagine, listen to Dr. Duane Mitchell, associate director of Duke University’s brain tumor immunotherapy program: “The hope is that there will be a common pathway that drives several cancer types,” Mitchell said Tuesday during a presentation to the Triangle Area Research Directors Council, an informal group of scientific leaders in the Research Triangle Park area.
Mitchell is part of a research group at Duke that is looking into ways to make cancer treatment less toxic and more effective. The Duke researchers are zeroing in on glioblastoma, a brain tumor that doesn’t respond well to treatment and usually kills within 15 months of being diagnosed. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 2/15
Sunday, February 14, 2010, 5:48 pmEvents taking place the week of Feb. 15 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Weekahead 2/8
Sunday, February 7, 2010, 5:24 pmEvents taking place the week of Feb. 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Wrapup 2/5
Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:13 amGlaxoSmithKline wants to scale back research and development and the cuts could affect jobs at the British drugmaker’s U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park, IBM unveils the $360 million cloud computing center it established on its RTP campus and a Durham startup reels in $10.5 million in venture capital and a deal with Burlington-based medical testing giant LabCorp. Read more…
Mitochondrion whisperer visits NIEHS
Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 11:33 pmIn search of new medicines, researchers have gone inside the cell to study mitochondria, tiny power plants that are key to cellular life and death, and their role in causing disease.
Malfunctioning mitochondria have been linked to cancer, immune defects, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, sterility and deafness. North Carolina scientists have been among those on the forefront of mitochondrial research, including a group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park.
Gerald Shadel
On Tuesday, the NIEHS group hosted Gerald Shadel, a Yale University biochemist who is sort of a mitochondrion whisperer. His lab at Yale’s school of medicine tries to understand how mitochondria tell cells what to do and what happens when the communication breaks down. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 2/1
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 10:33 pmEvents taking place the week of Feb. 1 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
Roche sets up technology pipeline to RTP
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:23 amA biotech startup in Research Triangle Park signed a deal with pharma giant Roche that could turn the company into a brain trust of cutting-edge technologies.
Dani Bolognesi
The deal allows b3bio, a two-year-old company with 10 employees, to be Roche’s eyes and ears for new drug development and delivery technologies that are in the works at universities. Technologies that suit both partners could then be nurtured at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, where b3bio has its labs, before they are turned over to Roche for further development, said Dani Bolognesi, co-founder and chief executive of b3bio. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 1/18
Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:07 amEvents taking place the week of Jan. 18 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
