Biotech Transfer Week | November 19, 2008

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Volume 2 - Number 45 | November 19, 2008

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In This Week's Issue

Rx Postmortem: Pfizer, Canadian Team to See If PGx Could Have Saved Torcetrapib

‘Optimistic’ About PGx, Lilly Taps Cabernet Pharma to Develop Targeted Rx Strategy

Nanosphere Says Test Menu Must Expand Before Product Revenues Can ‘Accelerate’

OIVD’s Steven Gutman Leaving FDA for Academia; No Replacement Announced

Affymetrix, Panomics, Clinical Data, Decode Genetics, CombiMatrix

PGxHealth

Scott Milsten, Allen Lamb

Features

University of Kansas Research Arm Sues US Government Over Cancer Drug Inventorship
The school’s correction-of-inventorship lawsuit claims a University of Kansas researcher and his former assistant were erroneously omitted as inventors on a pair of patents owned by the US Department of Health and Human Services and related to the Millennium Pharmaceuticals cancer drug Velcade.

Purdue Mann Institute Reveals First Round Of Biomed Tech-Commercialization Awards
The Alfred Mann Institute at Purdue University was created last year with a $100 million gift from the Alfred Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering to help commercialize Purdue biomedical innovations. This week, it awarded a total of $375,000 to support projects in the areas of tendon and ligament repair and replacement; early detection of breast cancer; and wound healing and scar amelioration.

Cornell Medical Debuts ‘Startup Boot Camp’ To Educate, Motivate Would-Be Entrepreneurs
The day-long event, held last week at Weill Cornell Medical College’s New York campus, is part of Cornell University’s recent effort to promote a more entrepreneurial culture among its faculty and students, and to encourage them to consider launching companies around their innovations.

News Briefs

Genzyme, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tufts University Medical Center, Ascent Therapeutics, SpineSmith, University of Texas, University of Pennsylvania, Zabecor, FluGen, University of Wisconsin, BioForce Nanosciences, University Pierre & Marie Curie, Centre National de Recheche Scientifique, Accelerator, PPD, Gilead, Emory University, Teva Pharmaceuticals

People in the News

Chris Rivera, Konstantinos Andrikopoulos, Richard Kaufman, David Charapp, Leslie Overman, Susie Ahn, Matthew Ambros, David Roccio, David Lu, Anne Reynolds, Allyson Hatton

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