Posts Tagged ‘biotech’
Needed: Cash to pay for innovation
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 1:02 amA $500 ticket to the Biotech conference Monday and Tuesday offered face time with heavy-hitting investors. After an 18-month, deep recession that dried up funding for drug research and development nationwide, it was a lure that attracted Research Triangle area companies to the Raleigh Convention Center in droves.
The visitors made it clear they and other investors remain skittish, but they also noted signs of hope, such as the handful of initial public offerings by biotech companies in past months and an adjustment in venture funding last year in favor of early-stage companies.
Stephen Sands
“When we look at a year ago, we’re really all taking a breath of relief that the Dow [Jones stock index] is over 10,000,” said Stephen Sands, vice chairman of U.S. investment banking in Lazard’s healthcare group, who moderated a panel addressing the future of biotech funding at the conference. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 2/22
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 9:21 pmEvents taking place the week of Feb. 22 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Wrapup 2/12
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 11:53 pmBayer CropScience is on the hook for $1.5 million after a jury verdict, former Gov. Jim Hunt tries to stoke the Research Triangle area’s creative juices at this year’s Emerging Issues Forum and RTI International scientists dipped into their nanotech tool box to come up with a better lightbulb. Read more…
In Holly Springs, Novartis leaves chicken out of flu vaccine recipe
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 8:22 amThe flu vaccine manufacturing plant that Novartis is about to finish about 20 miles southwest of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park promises better and faster protection for humans without the carnage to chicken offspring.
RTP looks toward China
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 4:56 pmForty years after “Made in Japan” was synonymous with cheap, poorly made goods, Japanese technology rules the U.S. automotive industry. The same could happen with biosciences “Made in China,” just faster.
RTP Weekahead 9/21
Sunday, September 20, 2009, 5:44 pmEvents taking place the week of Sept. 21 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
RTP Weekahead 9/14
Sunday, September 13, 2009, 5:35 pmEvents taking place the week of Sept. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
RTP Wrapup 9/11
Thursday, September 10, 2009, 9:39 pmGlaxoSmithKline gets good news on its Cervarix vaccine and bad news on its blockbuster asthma treatment Advair, the N.C. Biotechnology Center prepares to build a $10.4 million expansion with the help of private donations and Quintiles Transnational gets ready for Clinical Research Education Day at N.C. Central University.
RTP Weekahead 9/8
Monday, September 7, 2009, 8:25 amEvents taking place the week of Sept. 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
Biotech industry takes two on the chin
Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 7:23 amThe biotech industry, one of North Carolina’s premier engines for job creation, will have to do with less support from the state over the next two years.
