bionity.com Newsletter No. 29/2011

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Crossflow Filtration with Vivaflow^®
The only dedicated laboratory crossflow cassettes in the market

Vivaflow® 50 und 200 are optimally suited for diafiltration, concentration and buffer exchange of biological samples and nanoparticles from 0.1l - 5l ... more

Rapid tests for the detection of EHEC
Detection of verotoxins and serovariant E. coli O157

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News

Novozymes Biopharma secures business innovation award

07-26-2011 - Novozymes Biopharma, part of Novozymes A/S, received the 2011 Nottingham Evening Post (NEP) Business Award in the business innovation category, for its recombi ... more

UF study strengthens concerns about long-term use of certain painkillers

07-26-2011 - Painkillers such as ibuprofen, naxopren and celecoxib provide needed relief for many patients who have chronic pain. But an ongoing source of contention is whe ... more

Immune System Therapeutics completes $2.6 million placement

07-26-2011 - Immune System Therapeutics Limited (IST) said it completed a private placement to raise $2 million from new and existing private and institutional investors in ... more

Orion receives positive CHMP opinion for new intensive care sedative, dexdor® (dexmedetomidine)

07-26-2011 - Orion Corporation has received information that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a p ... more

Novartis drug Afinitor recommended by CHMP for EU approval to treat patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

07-26-2011 - Novartis announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion for Afinito ... more

EHEC: BfR, BVL and RKI issue specified consumption recommendations for uncooked sprouts and shoots (germ buds)

07-25-2011 - According to the German federal authorities, further information made available by the Federal States has provided no grounds to continue to recommend that con ... more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Presents $35,000 Distinguished Research Award to Dr. Judit Villen, University of Washington

07-25-2011 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has presented Dr. Judit Villen of the University of Washington, Seattle, with the American Society for Mass Spe ... more

Tube Pharmaceuticals to Develop a New Class of Anti-cancer Drugs

07-25-2011 - Ascenion, the technology transfer partner of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) announced the foundation o ... more

Carl Zeiss Obtains Licence from University of California for Illumination Technique

07-25-2011 - Carl Zeiss has received a licence from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) for the commercialization of “Multidirectional Selective Plane Illu ... more

InSphero and INTEGRA Announce Cooperation

07-25-2011 - Integra Biosciences and InSphero AG have announced that they will cooperate on providing high performance liquid-handling solutions for 3D cell culture.Ernst F ... more

Porvair Reports Strong Growth in German Sales

07-22-2011 - Porvair Sciences Ltd. has reported a 20% increase in business from German-speaking markets in the first 6 months of 2011 compared to same period in 2010.Steve ... more

Merck Animal Health (MSD Animal Health) Breaks Ground for $18 Million Vaccine Plant Expansion

07-22-2011 - Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced that it has embarked on the expansion of a vaccine manufacturing unit ... more

Agendia Receives €1.27 Million in Funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme

07-22-2011 - Agendia announced that, together with collaborators in clinical centers and translational research groups, it has launched the RATHER (Rational Therapy for Bre ... more

Bicoll and Naturalpha announce Nutraceutical Research Alliance

07-22-2011 - Bicoll GmbH and Naturalpha announced that they initiated a research alliance. Their joint project will focus on the development of innovative and qualified bot ... more

Pharming completes a private placement raising €3.2 million

07-22-2011 - Pharming Group NV announced that it has completed a financing of €3.2 million adding new US based specialist investors.Upon the closing of the transaction, Pha ... more

Galapagos initiates Proof-of-Mechanism clinical study for candidate cachexia drug GLPG0492

07-21-2011 - Galapagos NV announced that it has started a Phase I Proof-of-Mechanism study for GLPG0492, a candidate drug for cachexia (loss of weight and muscle mass) and ... more

BioFocus and InterMed Discovery Announce Marketing Collaboration

07-21-2011 - BioFocus and InterMed Discovery GmbH (IMD) announced a marketing collaboration to offer enhanced natural product discovery to the pharmaceutical, animal health ... more

Exonhit Announces Successful Completion of the Second Phase of EHT Dx14 Clinical Validation

07-21-2011 - Following the first data in benign and malignant fine-needle aspiration (FNA) samples, Exonhit announced successful completion of the second phase of the valid ... more

New human imaging data support the neuroprotective effects of Allon’s davunetide

07-21-2011 - Allon Therapeutics Inc. announced new findings that 12 weeks of treatment with the Company’s lead product davunetide appears to prevent cortical thinning of i ... more

RenovoCyte enters strategic partnership with VetCell to use stem cell therapy and Wellness Banking

07-20-2011 - RenovoCyte, LLC announced a strategic partnership with Equine Partners of America (EPA) doing business as VetCell Americas. VetCell enjoys a well-established e ... more

Lophius Biosciences Closes Additional Financing Round with Current Investors Totaling 1.4 Million EUR

07-20-2011 - Lophius Biosciences announced closing of an additional financing round totaling 1.4 million EUR. All current financial investors, such as S-Refit, High-Tech Gr ... more

AiCuris’ Novel HSV Compound AIC316 Shows Efficacy in Phase II

07-20-2011 - Phase II results for AiCuris' novel non-nucleosidic herpes simplex virus (HSV) inhibitor AIC316 reveal safety and efficacy in persons with genital herpes. The ... more

Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal

07-20-2011 - Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa, according to an international team of researcher ... more

Cancer stem cells recruit normal stem cells to fuel ovarian cancer, U-M study finds

07-20-2011 - Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a type of normal stem cell fuels ovarian cancer by encouraging cancer ste ... more

KUROS Announces allowance of US Patent For the local application of Parathyroid hormone (PTH) for bone healing

07-20-2011 - Kuros Biosurgery AG announced that it has received Notice of Allowance for U.S. 11/679,807 from the U.S. Patent Office. The now allowed application acknowledge ... more

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Events

08-31-2011 | Berlin
Basic Seminar Gaschromatography

09-14-2011 | Berlin
Basic Seminar in HPLC

09-19-2011 | Dublin
Validation of Computer Systems

The course is designed to provide a thorough understanding of computer system validation. In addition, the course will address how 21 CFR Part 11 (electronic ... more

09-19-2011 | Berlin
Quantitative Biology: From Cell to Process

Modern biology follows the trends in the chemical and physical sciences to use quantitative mathematical models for the description of complex cellular behavio ... more

09-20-2011 | Dublin
ADME, PK/TK, and Drug Metabolism in Drug Discovery and Development

Upon completing this course, participants will have knowledge of the research studies conducted to characterize the likelihood of success for a drug candidate, ... more