Science in the Triangle » CED http://scienceinthetriangle.org News & Discovery. Where You Live. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:35:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 RTP Weekahead 1/18 http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2010/01/rtp-weekahead-118/ http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2010/01/rtp-weekahead-118/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:07:19 +0000 Sabine Vollmer http://scienceinthetriangle.org/?p=1290 Events taking place the week of Jan. 18 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Tuesday

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC
Seminar: Role of environmental and intrinsic factors in the differentiation of inflammatory T cells
Speaker: Dr. Dan Littman, New York University School of Medicine

11 a.m.
University of North Carolina Medical School, 1131 Bioinformatics, Chapel Hill
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Metabolism and cancer
Speaker: Yue Xiong, UNC

11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Duke Energy EnVision Center, 909 Capability Drive, N.C. State University Centennial Campus, Raleigh
TARDC: Tour of the center, a movie-style studio that offers a glimpse at the smart home in the year 2015
Cost: $20 for non-members

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Keystone Room 1003AB
Seminar: Advances in measuring cellular bioenergetics using extracellular flux (XF)
Speaker: David Ferrick, Seahorse Bioscience

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
N.C. State University, 132 Jordan Hall, Raleigh
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Space-based lidar remote sensing of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface
Speaker: Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh
Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: The computable root
Speaker: Siobhan M. Brady, Department of Plant Biology, University of California at Davis

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Busy Bee Cafe, 225 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh
Raleigh Science Cafe: The technology behind GPS — from satellites and trilateration to binary codes and radio frequencies — some of its surprising and innovative applications and glimmers into the future of this technology.
Speaker: James Jeuck, extension specialist at NCSU Extension Forestry
More information here.

Wednesday

11 a.m. to noon
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Room D450
Seminar: Systems approach to microbial pathogenesis: Complex patterns emerge from simple interactions
Speaker: Dr. Suzy Vasa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
CED Entrepreneurship Center, 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106, Durham
The 2010 forecast for entrepreneurs
More information here.

Noon
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main St., Suite A200, Durham
Seminar: Prospects of discovering geographic and climatological patterns in plants with large datasets
Speaker: Steven Smith, NESCent

3:30 p.m.
Duke University, Physics 128, Durham
Physics Dept. Seminar: The Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) project
Speaker: Robert Beichner, NCSU

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh
Dept. of Mathematics Seminar: Diophantine numbers in dynamics
Speaker: Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University

4 p.m.
University of North Carolina, Phillips 385, Chapel Hill
Dept. of Mathematics Ergodic Theory Seminar: A variation-norm Carleson theorem
Speaker: Professor Richard Oberlin

Thursday

7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
CED Entrepreneurship Center, 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106, Durham
CED Cafe: Outsourcing – technology, human resources and finance
Cost: $40 for non-members
More information here.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Room 450
Seminar: Cox-2 driven pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Speaker: Dr. Susan Fischer, Anderson, Texas

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh
Dept. of Biology Seminar: CART peptides and drug abuse – or what are all these genes for anyway?
Speaker: Dr. Mike Kuhar, head of neuroscience division at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University

Friday

11 a.m. to noon
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Rodbell A
Seminar: Role of estrogen receptor in TLR induced immune responses and angiogenesis
Speaker: Dr. Gary S. Gilkeson, Medical University of South Carolina

Noon
University of North Carolina, Lohman Lab, Chapel Hill
Dept. of Biology Lunch Bunch: Oceanographic and geomagnetic influences on sea turtle migrations
Speaker: Nathan Putman

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Rodeball B
Seminar: Horror Autoinflammaticus: The expanding spectrum of systemic autoinflammatory diseases
Speaker: Dr. Daniel L. Kastner, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
]]> http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2010/01/rtp-weekahead-118/feed/ 0 RTP Wrapup 8/13 http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2009/08/rtp-wrapup-813/ http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2009/08/rtp-wrapup-813/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:35:02 +0000 Sabine Vollmer http://new.scienceinthetriangle.org/?p=406 RTI International and two Durham drug development companies hauled a lot of cash into the Triangle, a national research team led by the University of North Carolina will look for new cancer-fighting medicines and grassroots support for entrepreneurs is alive and well in the Triangle.

Money haul

As Wall Street is starting to show signs of life again, cash is beginning to flow and refill empty coffers of drug development companies. Inspire Pharmaceuticals, a Durham company specializing in eye and respiratory treatments, sold $115 million in stock in a follow-on offering, taking home $109 million of it.

Chimerix, another Durham drug development company, raised $16.1 million in venture capital to continue work on a broadspectrum antiviral.

Finally, RTI International, a large research institute in Research Triangle Park, will receive $11 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute to study the effects of radiation on people who are routinely exposed, such as medical professionals.

All that money translates into research and development jobs that will be created or saved in the RTP area.

In other company news, Chesson Labs, a three-year-old Durham company, received regulatory approval to sell its liquid bandage. The product will compete with Liquid Band-Aid, which retails for about $7 per 10-application bottle and was developed by Closure Medical before the Raleigh company was bought by health care giant Johnson & Johnson several years ago.

Looking for cancer fighters

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University in Durham and the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in RTP will be part of a national drug discovery initiative that will work on new cancer-fighting drugs.

The initiative, which involves the National Cancer Institute, plans to establish a development pipeline from the bench to clinical tests.

The Triangle team will be led by Stephen Frye, director of UNC-CH’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery. Frye joined UNC two years ago from GlaxoSmithKline in RTP, where he headed the drugmaker’s worldwide drug discovery efforts for years and was involved in the discovery of GSK’s breast cancer drug Tykerb.

A hand up

Small companies, startups and mid-size businesses, where discoveries are turned into tomorrow’s products, are the Triangle’s strength.

Many of these companies rely on the support of each other and entrepreneurial organizations to flourish.

Under the leadership of its new CEO Joan Siefert Rose, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development brought together 17 of these support organizations Wednesday in a new event called the CED Cafe. A crowd of about 130 packed the meeting room in Durham to listen to the five-minute presentations.

Find a list here and which of the support organizations got its budget cut here.

]]> http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2009/08/rtp-wrapup-813/feed/ 0 Grassroots business support and a free meal http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2009/08/grassroots-business-support-and-a-free-meal/ http://scienceinthetriangle.org/2009/08/grassroots-business-support-and-a-free-meal/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:21:18 +0000 Sabine Vollmer http://new.scienceinthetriangle.org/?p=407 North Carolina’s Research Triangle area is known as a research and development hub where several large companies have operations, including IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen Idec and Quintiles Transnational. But the area’s true strength lies in its many small companies, startups and mid-size businesses, where discoveries are turned into tomorrow’s products.

The Triangle is home to much of North Carolina’s biotech industry, which consists of about 500 companies employing more than 55,000. Also, the Triangle is developing into an East Coast hub for the video gaming industry with about 30 area companies that employ more than 1,000.

Many of the companies operating at the technological edge rely on the support of each other and entrepreneurship membership organizations to flourish.

Under the leadership of its new CEO Joan Siefert Rose, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development brought together 17 of these support organizations Wednesday in a new event called the CED Cafe. A crowd of about 130 packed the meeting room in Durham to listen to the five-minute presentations.

Here is the list of support organizations, offering help with anything from fund raising to finding board members to doing business in China, and not infrequently a free meal:

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