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September 2009

Arrowhead Center

New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) Arrowhead Center is organizing technology commercialization and economic development in Las Cruces, NM as it has since 2004 with 5 strategic business units.


•Arrowhead Technology Incubator and Arrowhead Business and Research Park
•Entrepreneurship  Institute 
•Intellectual Property 
•Policy Analysis
•Workforce Innovation


October 22, 2009 {San Jose BioCenter} Meet with… Genentech, Inc.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 9:00AM-4:00PM 
Venue: San Jose BioCenter, 5941 Optical Court, San Jose CA 95138
Application Cost: free
Registration Cost: from $100 to $225
Emerging companies find it increasingly difficult to reach the right person when seeking funding and/or partners. Through the “Meet with...” Series, we provide emerging companies with greater access to partnering and/or financing opportunities. In this session, Senior Managers from Genentech, Inc. will talk to potential licensees to first explain what they are looking for in a company. After the presentation, each attendee will be granted a private meeting with Anna Williamson or Peter Condon, both Senior Manager of Business Development at Genentech, Inc.

NCI Funding Opportunities

Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Time: 9:30-11:30AM
Venue: San Jose BioCenter, 5941 Optical Court, San Jose CA 95138
Cost: from $0 to $40
Is your small business on the brink of taking its innovative cancer research to the next level but is in need of early-stage technology financing?

PANMA and Tips for Managing a Business

The Philadelphia Area New Media Association (PANMA) held an event at the University City Science Center on September 24, 2009 entitled: 'You've Started a Business: Now What?'  The topic being pointers and tips for early stage companies to follow in the realm of time management and workflow optimization, as well as protecting intellectual property.
 

Incubator Events Support Small Business Development

I recently talked with Melinda Richter, executive director of the San Jose BioCenter, and we spoke about bioincubation in California and what the BioCenter is doing to help young companies bring better therapies to market sooner.   

Drexel Interim President C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni Joins Science Center Board

PHILADELPHIA--(September 22, 2009) – C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni, interim president of Drexel University, has joined the board of directors of the University City Science Center. Pennoni is one of Drexel's most successful alumni, a 2000 inductee into the National Academy of Engineering and an instrumental figure in Drexel governance.

Pluromed, Inc. Announces FDA Approval for BackStop™

Device used in the treatment of kidney stones represents Company’s first FDA-approved product
 
Woburn, Massachusetts, (September 22, 2009) – Pluromed, Inc. announced approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for BackStopTM, a device used in ureteroscopic kidney stone management procedures. BackStop was approved as a Class II device under the pre-market notification 510(k) process.

The Patent Mindset

Bion & Dorain Foster Student Innovation Center University of Maine

GSU Collaborative Technology Program (CollabTech)

Georgia State University (GSU) has moved The Collaborative Technology Program (Collabtech) to the newly renovated SunTrust Building in downtown Atlanta.  The facility has doubled in size during the process and will allow incubated companies to continue to grow and to hire more employees.  

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