A Texas pharmaceutical company is leaning on its North Carolina-based preclinical and clinical development teams to advance a novel drug-delivery technology that could make medicines safer and more effective.
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Pitt County hosts a vibrant life sciences community constantly in need of new employees. But it’s hard for young students to plan a career in, say, pharmaceutical manufacturing, if they’ve never heard about it. Thus the “Grow Local” program. Here’s how it works.
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– Sciencix, a Cary supplier of replacement parts for instrumentation used in biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing, is being honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration as its 2023 Small Business Exporter of the Year.
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A trio of North Carolina scientists conceived of a company more than a year and a half ago when they entered and won $25,000 in Phase 1 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Deep Space Food Challenge. Their initial success provided the impetus for the new business—Cosmic Eats, incorporated early in 2022 – and a promising new product. Here’s what happened.
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APIE, based in Research Triangle Park, is now raising a Series A round of funding. The company has hired an investment banker and recently scored a win by adding life sciences industry heavyweight Jim Greenwood to its board. Greenwood is known in biopharma for his 18-year tenure as president and CEO of BIO, the world’s largest biotech industry organization.
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Rapidly growing industries such as contract research organizations (CROs) are finding it difficult to hire enough employees to coordinate and manage clinical studies involving thousands of participants to determine the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, therapies and medical devices that could benefit millions of people in the U.S. and globally. Here’s what’s happening in North Carolina.
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North Carolina has earned another high score for business as fintech company Lendio has put the Tar Heel State fifth in its 2023 rankings of best states for small business.
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Michael Reddish, an assistant professor in App State’s Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences, is researching human enzymes in an effort that could lead to new therapies for treating cancer and other serious diseases. He doesn’t have a Eureka moment in the lab when he knew he had a grant-worthy discovery. Here’s his story.
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The Research Triangle Park-based startup is developing a targeted way of controlling agricultural diseases and pests that can devastate crops. Innatrix’s environmentally friendly technology uses peptides to attach and block pathogen-promoting proteins, and RNAi to shut down genes that are essential for the survival of pests in targeted crops.
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