North Carolina Biotechnology Center

NC’s 3 ‘Engines of Innovation’ – talent, investment, expansion – driving life science industry’s boom

Posted by Jason Parker | Mar 25, 2021

With billions in recent announcements for new plants and expansions and thousands of promised jobs, North Carolina’s life science sector is booming. And it’s not just facilities from companies new to the region. Rather the surge is a mix: new, existing firms and emerging companies. Then there are local firms attracting investment capital. Thirdly, the availability of talent emerging from schools and universities who are choosing to stay in NC. Here’s what experts are saying.

Considering a life science career? Clinical research organizations offer thousands of opportunities across NC

Posted by Jason Parker | Mar 24, 2021

The North Carolina Biotech Center recently hosted a conversation on careers in clinical research, focusing in particular on the role, work, and career trajectory of clinical research associates, often abbreviated as CRAs. Here’s a look at opportunities in the state’s growing CRO – clinical research organization – sector.

Duke spinout CasTag BioSciences builds a better protein trap with boost from NCBiotech

Posted by WRAL News | Jun 15, 2020

CasTag BioSciences is based on a technology developed in his lab that marks proteins of interest in an entirely new way, using the genome-editing tool CRISPR. One major thrust of its research has been identifying proteins in the synapses of the brain, the tiny gaps between nerve cells where signals are transmitted and received.

The most important factors in ag tech decision making? Experts have their say

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 24, 2020

Panelists at the February Ag Tech Professional Forum panel discussion at the North Carolina Biotech Center agreed on several key elements affecting their decisions. Among them: A need to consider eventual public perception and acceptance of new products; a need for collaboration; and the sustainability of a new product.

Duke’s cancer research and AI health initiative gets boost $200,000 grant from NCBiotech

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 13, 2020

The Duke scientists say the instrumentation grant from NCBiotech enables them to use cutting-edge digital imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to advance cancer research, diagnostics and to support a vast new interdisciplinary data science initiative called AI Health.

NCBiotech awards $2.1M in grants, loans

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 6, 2020

The awards, made in the second quarter of the Biotech Center’s fiscal year, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, will support life science research and technology commercialization throughout North Carolina and help companies attract follow-on funding from other sources.

Animals could provide clues to treating humans with the same allergies

Posted by WRAL News | Jan 24, 2020

A presentation at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center recently explored ways that animals provide clues to treating humans with the same allergies, and on the other hand, treating allergies in people provides insight into ways to treat animals.

Warming climate brings ‘existential challenges’ to agriculture

Posted by WRAL News | Dec 16, 2019

Thats what two scientists at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s final Ag Tech Professional Forum for 2019, capping a year of forums examining how climate change affects agriculture.

Never seen a purple carrot? Well, you soon may see them in NC

Posted by WRAL News | Dec 16, 2019

Assisted by a recent $113,523 grant from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (NCDA&CS) New and Emerging Crops program, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Crop Commercialization Program has sponsored trials to grow this distinctive vegetable in three areas of the state. The results are promising, according to CCP Project Administrator Sarah Frank. So the march toward a carrot of a different color continues unabated.

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