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May 2008

 
Events Column
5/21  6:30 pm - 9:30 pm. Licensing Executives Society CT Chapter. "Burning Intellectual Property Issues of 2008: Patent Reform and Why It Was Blocked in Court; Supreme Court Rulings of 2007 and Their Effects in 2008 and Beyond." President's Room, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, 500 College St., New Haven. more
5/22  1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Biobanks: The Promise and Public Health Challenges of Biorepositories for Genomics Research. Presented by The CT Dept of Public Health Virtual Office of Genomics. Crowne Plaza, 100 Berlin Road, Cromwell. more
6/18  12:00 noon - 1:00 pm. Brown Bag Lunch. "Stem Cells: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask." Presented by the Yale Stem Cell Center. TAC Auditorium, N107, Yale University, New Haven more
Connecticut Stem Cell Activities Accelerate
From the desk of Paul Pescatello, President and CEO of CURE
Stem cells are in the news again, and Connecticut continues to be on the cutting edge of progress in this important research. The state's Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee has directed the allocation of $9.84 million in stem cell research funds to scientists based in Storrs, Farmington, and New Haven. The awards come at a time when stem cell research is opening new vistas in bioscience research.
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Panel Discusses 'The Next Big Idea' in Bioscience
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneuship Series Continues
A special panel discussion, "The Next Big Idea -
Emerging Opportunities in the Life Sciences," took place April 16 at Yale's Anlyan Center as part of the CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series. Introduced by Jon Soderstrom, managing director of the Yale Office of Cooperative Research, the panel included Roger Longman, managing partner at Windhover Information; William Burkoth, senior manager venture capital at Pfizer Venture Investments; Dr. Richard Flavell, chairman of the Immunobiology Department at Yale and founding scientist of VaxInnate; Haifan Lin, director of the Yale Stem Cell Center; and venture capitalist David Scheer, president of Scheer & Company, Inc.
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Life Sciences Drew Bulk of 2007 CT Venture Capital
Of the venture capital invested in Connecticut companies in 2007, more than three quarters was attracted by life sciences companies, according to a CURE analysis of MoneyTree™ reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. "Life Sciences" includes Biotechnology and Medical Devices & Equipment.
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Vidus Ocular Presents New Glaucoma Device
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneuship Series Continues
Vidus Ocular presented its new device for treatment of glaucoma at a seminar April 23 at Yale’s Anlyan Center, as part of the CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series. John Puziss, director of technology licensing at the Yale Office of Cooperative Research, introduced Dr. Ben R. Bronstein, co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of Vidus Ocular, and Dr. Bruce Shields, who is co-founder and chief scientific and medical officer of Vidus Ocular and the Marvin L. Sears professor and chairman emeritus of the Department of Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine.
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CURE Member News Digest
 Alexion reports dramatic increase in Q1 revenue
 Bayer HealthCare unveils VistTrak™ plans
 Boehringer Ingelheim finds MICARDIS® effective
 Bristol-Myers Squibb selects cholesterol candidate
 CMD Bioscience signs licensing agreement
 Connecticut Innovations assists stem cell funding
 CuraGen sells belinostat interest
 GlaxoSmithKline acquires Sirtris
 HistoRx signs deal with Lilly
 Invitrogen to distribute mitochondrial products
 Johnson & Johnson comments on Q1
 MannKind welcomes Matthew Pfeffer as CFO
 NanoViricides commences Boston trials
 Neurogen grosses $30.6 million in private placement
 Optherion featured in Forbes article

 Purdue Pharma introduces new OxyContin® dosages
 Pfizer reports benefits in 80 mg Lipitor®
 PhRMA heralds Global Health Progress launch
 Quinnipiac professor named Fulbright scholar
 Rib-X Pharmaceuticals renews crystal structure pact
 Nine UConn faculty get stem cell funding
 Yale clones ovarian cancer stem cells

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