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Biotechnology Focus

AUGUST 2006 ~ Issue 8 Volume 9


Head Rush By Amber Lepage-Monette

The foundation was formed in 2003 by businessman and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Scott Johnson, who suffers from MS.


Northern Exposure By Amber Lepage-Monette

Urigen Holdings relocates from California to Vancouver to pursue treatments for urological indications.


Delegates at Golden Horseshoe Biosciences Summit Catch The Future By Darlene Homonko, PhD

The coming life sciences revolution will reinvent health care, cause some national economies to boom and others to shrivel, and even change how factories look and operate, said keynote speaker Juan Enriquez, founding director of Harvard Business School's (Boston, MA) Life Sciences Project.


The Role Of Academe-based HTS By Jonathan Cechetto

The need for new pharmaceutical agents has resulted in the birth of high throughput screening (HTS). Technological advances in robotics, computing hardware and software, and detectors, coupled with advances in genomics, proteomics and combinatorial chemistry has enabled the development of large-scale, automated testing of many compounds against a single target.


Cross-Atlantic Collaboration By Steve Minett, PhD and Chris Taylor

ProMetic BioSciences' U.K. Endeavour

British science is taking leading-edge academic research and using it to build a portfolio of commercial products and technologies that top pharmaceutical companies worldwide are applying to the field of human medicine