Hot companies–orgaizations recently receiving or announcing good news.
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Emeryhville, California, a privately held company, recently announced that they have closed a $40 million Series D round of funding led by Aeris CAPITAL AG and DAG Ventures. Previous investors MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and Northgate Capital also participated in the same round.
“Adamas is at an important inflection point with our [...]
Tony Beugelsdijk, one of the founders of the Association for Lab Automation passed away Friday, August 21 from complications related to a stroke.
Subject: Announcement from Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (LRIG): In memory of Tony Beugelsdijk
Dear colleagues, It is with much sadness and sympathy for the family, loved ones, friends and scientific/automation community that I must report that Tony Beugelsdijk passed away Friday, August 21, from complications related to a stroke.
Many of us know Tony through his tireless [...]
Interview with Agilent/Velocity11 earlier this year at Lab Automation
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Agilent Technologies reports financial numbers for their Third Quarter this year.
Agilent Technoloies Reports Revenues for Q3
Agilent Technologies, headquartered in Santa Clara, California announced financial results for their third quarter ending July 31, 2009. While the numbers aren’t pretty, they do not show a company in crisis.
Total revenues for the entire company for the quarter were $1.06 billion, which was 27% below Q3 of last year. [...]
Colorado biotechnology cluster on the rise, states the Colorado BioScience Association.
When the general public thinks about the life science industry, Boston and San Francisco come to mind first, with other areas such as New Jersey, San Diego and RTP coming in second. In reality, there are many other areas that have thriving biotech centers, and we make it our business to find out more about [...]
Labor Department reports that new jobless claims drop more than expected.
New jobless claims dropped by a significant number last week. Initial jobless claims dropped to a seasonally adjusted 550,000 for the week ending August 1. This number was down from the upwardly revised figure of 588,000 for the previous week. Analysts had been expecting the number to be in the 580.000 range.
The four week average [...]
Three hot new jobs in the Clinical arena.
Hot off the presses.
Director of Clinical Operations located in the Maryland-DC area.
QA Auditiors, senior level located in the Boston area. NOT GLP or GMP. Person must know GCP for clinical site auditing.
Senior Medical Director Oncology for the Bay area. Foreign MD is OK.
If you feel you may be a good fit for any of these positions, please [...]
Video of birds that do the Michael Jackson moonwalk.
This may be stretching the biotech theme a bit, but it is certainly interesting. A bird that can moonwalk better than Michael Jackson did.
We now have the proverbial chicken or the egg question. Or in this case the Chicken or the Michael Jackson question. Did the birds learn the moonwalk from Michael Jackson, or did [...]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company reports strong earnings growth for second quarter of 2009.
While net sales in Q2 of 2009 vs Q2 of 2008 were only up modestly, net earnings and Earnings Per Share both spiked, as the result of what appears to have been a well-implemented cost control program.
“The excellent results for the second quarter and first six months of the year clearly represent how Bristol-Myers Squibb [...]
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