The latest news about trends and developments in the biotech, pharma and life science industries http://www.bionity.com/news/e/ en-us http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102836/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Janet Davison Rowley, MD, a founder in the field of cancer cytogenetics, will receive the 2009 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. She is being honored with the prestigious ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102908/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 GENEART AG is among the 50 most dynamic companies in Bavaria and has been awarded "BAVARIA'S BEST 50" by the Bavarian State Ministry for the third time. Since its market entry in 2000, GENEART ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102837/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 A multi-national group of investigators, including a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has discovered that nearly a third of the genetic basis of schizophrenia may be ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102910/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 H. Lundbeck A/S announced positive headline results from a dose finding clinical trial with the compound Lu AA24530 for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The primary objective of the ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102829/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Johnson & Johnson announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102823/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Successful business applications such as drug screening technologies, flat-panel displays and solar-cell designs are amongst the achievements in physics recognised by the Institute of Physics' (IOP) ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102831/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and several other institutions have found laboratory evidence that a cluster of peptides may be the toxic agent in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists say the discovery may ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102833/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Deleting two genes in mice responsible for repairing DNA strands damaged by oxidation leads to several types of tumors, providing additional evidence that such stress contributes to the development ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102834/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Responding to scientists' need to measure organic contaminants in human body fluids, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently made four new Standard Reference Materials ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102846/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 BionityCOM, an online information portal provided by Chemie.DE Information Service GmbH, now offers the most comprehensive coverage of news for the biotech and pharma industries in Europe. ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102810/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Pharming Group NV announced that, as part of the activities for the regulatory submission files, it has now also completed the final analysis of its Rhucin® randomised placebo-controlled studies. The ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102815/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 At the Annual General Meeting, the members of France Biotech voted to elect their governing bodies, in accordance with the organization's statutes. The newly elected Administrative Council then ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102820/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 ChemWerth Inc. reported the Wuhan Pharmaceutical Factory facility has passed an FDA overseas inspection with a two point 483 being issued. ChemWerth and Wuhan are collaborating to develop APIs for ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102817/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 A recent study carried out on behalf of LANXESS has demonstrated the effectiveness of the disinfectant Preventol CD 601 against the swine flu viral strain. "The test results from Giessen University ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102782/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 A specific biomarker, a protein released by dying tumor cells, has been identified as an effective tool in an animal model to gauge the response to a novel gene therapy treatment for glioblastoma ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102809/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 MorphoSys AG and the University of Melbourne announced an agreement to cooperate on investigating new therapeutic applications for MorphoSys's MOR103 program. MOR103, a HuCAL antibody against human ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102684/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 The Biochemical Engineering Journal and the ECI Biochemical Engineering Conferences have announced that Kelvin H. Lee, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102769/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Evotec AG announced the successful completion of the first Phase I study with its P2X7 receptor antagonist EVT 401. EVT 401 is a small molecule drug candidate and a potentially novel approach to ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102774/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 A joint research group of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku, led by Professor Johanna Ivaska, has discovered a mechanism lung cancer cells use when spreading into ... http://www.bionity.com/news/e/102776/?WT.mc_id=ca0068 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has been named the winner of the Microsoft Corporation 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation ... © 2009, Chemie.DE Information Service GmbH.