Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from October 2002

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from October 2002

Cepheid to redistribute funds in shift toward commercialization.
October 3, 2002... Diagnostics & imaging Week Staff Writer In an effort to focus company initiatives, Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) eliminated about 15% of its workforce as it narrows its goals for the life sciences, biothreat and genetic assessment...

Siemens and generics in deal on blood analysis diagnostics. (Report from Europe).
October 3, 2002... Medical Device Daily EuroPean Correspondent Siemens (Erlangen, Germany) and Generics (London) have set up a jointly owned subsidiary, Sphere, to be based in Cambridge, UK, to develop a family of silicon chips capable of monitoring blood...

Nano-size `qdot' crystals usher in `nanomachines' for disease tracking, diagnosis, therapies. (Report from Europe).
October 3, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Science Editor Researchers have spent years to find ways of using "nanomachines" (nanogram-scale crystals) to diagnose and image crystals in the body, and deliver drugs. Quantum nanodots ("qdots") are offered as...

Mutant BRCA1 increases risk of other cancers in women. (Report from Europe).
October 3, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Correspondent LONDON -- The discovery that women who inherit a mutant copy of the BRCA1 gene are at increased risk of developing a whole range of cancers in addition to cancer of the breast and ovary highlights...

Cantel 2002 sales up sharply; Escalon posts earnings gains. (Earnings roundup).
October 3, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Cantel Medical (Little Falls, New Jersey) said income from continuing operations grew by 43% to $1.97 million or 20 cents a diluted share in the fourth quarter from $1.38 million or 18 cents a share...

AFP Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
October 3, 2002... * AFP Imaging (Elmsford, New York) said it posted a profit in fiscal 2002, its first since 1997. Net earnings for the year were $84,002 or 1 cents a share compared to a net loss of $1.17 million or 19 cents a share in the prior fiscal year....

Diagnocure. (Earnings roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Diagnocure (Quebec City, Quebec), developer of cancer detection tests, said sales totaled C$67,131 during the third quarter ended July 31, down from C$170,043 in the year-earlier period. The net loss was C$993,690 or 3 cents a share compared...

Radiologix. (Earnings roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Radiologix (Dallas, Texas), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, said that greater-than-expected seasonality in July and August impacted its third-quarter procedure volume and service fee revenue, and it has thus lowered its financial...

Aureon closes a $15M round to develop cancer diagnostics. (Financings roundup).
October 3, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer Aureon Biosciences (Yonkers, New York) CEO Jon Edelson is banking on his company finding an integrated clinical view of disease through diagnostic tests for cancer--tests that may be able to tell a...

Epoch Biosciences. (Financings roundup).
October 3, 2002... Epoch Biosciences (Bothell, Washington) closed two new financing agreements with Silicon Valley Bank. The agreements include a $2.5 million term loan and a $750,000 working capital line of credit. The company said the proceeds would be used to...

Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems. (Financings roundup).
October 3, 2002... Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems (NIMS; North Bay Village, Florida) said several executives of its exclusive Japanese agent have purchased 300,000 shares of NIMS common stock from the company at 30 cents a share. The investors are members of the...

Celera diag to develop tests with industry heavyweights. (Agreements roundup).
October 3, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Aligning itself with a pair of industry frontrunners, Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) entered a pair of agreements to develop lab tests with Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) and...

BioStratum. (Agreements roundup).
October 3, 2002... * BioStratum (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) signed an agreement granting Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) an option to obtain a worldwide license under BioStratum's patent rights pertaining to the diagnosis and treatment of Alport...

AmeriPath. (Agreements roundup).
October 3, 2002... * AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a provider of cancer diagnostics, genomic and related information services, entered an alliance with gMed (Weston, Florida), which will automate traditional pathology sample and result delivery through...

Igen International. (Agreements roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) widened its ongoing homeland security initiatives through an expanded collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide government regulatory agencies and commercial food...

ChromaVision medical systems (San Juan Capistrano, California) and Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) entered an agreement to jointly market an automated staining and imaging method of testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus known to be the primary cause of cervical cancer. (Agreements roundup).
October 3, 2002... * ChromaVision Medical Systems (San Juan Capistrano, California) and Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) entered an agreement to jointly market an automated staining and imaging method of testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus...

Ventana purchases Beckman Coulter's HPV business unit. (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) acquired Beckman Coulter's (Fullerton, California) human papillomavirus (HPV) business and all corresponding assets for an undisclosed amount. The...

Aramark (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) completed the acquisition of the Clinical Technology Services (CTS) business from premier (San Diego, California), one of the nation's largest alliances of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems, in a cash deal valued at about $100 million. (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Aramark (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) completed the acquisition of the Clinical Technology Services (CTS) business from Premier (San Diego, California), one of the nation's largest alliances of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems,...

Colorado MEDtech. (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Colorado MEDtech (Boulder, Colorado), a provider of advanced medical technology outsourcing services and medical imaging products, said that its board has hired an investment consulting firm that will help it "to explore a full range of...

DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) entered into an agreement with Merck Centroamericana SA, a subsidiary of Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) entered into an agreement with Merck Centroamericana SA, a subsidiary of Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). Merck Centroamericana SA will sell and service DiaSys' medical equipment and consumable products in...

Media Cybernetics (Silver Spring, Maryland), an analytical image analysis software provider, acquired all of the intellectual property and related assets of Definitive Imaging Ltd., an image analysis software provider for metallographic and materials science quality control. (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Media Cybernetics (Silver Spring, Maryland), an analytical image analysis software provider, acquired all of the intellectual property and related assets of Definitive Imaging Ltd., an image analysis software provider for metallographic and...

Intec Research (Sunnyvale, California), a developer of ultrasonic medical devices, completed a merger with Specialty Engineering Associates (SEA; Sequel, California). (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Intec Research (Sunnyvale, California), a developer of ultrasonic medical devices, completed a merger with Specialty Engineering Associates (SEA; Sequel, California). The combined companies are embodied in a new entity, Onda, with...

Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) and unilab (Tarzana, California) extended the termination date of their merger agreement to Nov. 30 (Deals roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) and Unilab (Tarzana, California) extended the termination date of their merger agreement to Nov. 30. All other provisions of the agreement remain in effect, the companies said. Previously, the merger...

Rubicon Genomics. (Financings roundup).
October 3, 2002... * Rubicon Genomics (Ann Arbor, Michigan) completed its Series B round of financing, raising $3.5 million in a round led by Arch Development Partners, with participation from Duchossois TECnology Partners, Sloan Ventures and individual...

Bayer and Shield in homocystine test deal. (Report from Europe).
October 3, 2002... Bayer Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) and Axis-Shield (Dundee, Scotland) have agreed to develop Shield's patented homocystine assays for use on the Advia Centaur and ACS:180 analyzer systems. Homocystinaemia has been identified as a risk...

Osteoporosis screening project. (Report from Europe).
October 3, 2002... A pilot project for detection of osteoporosis in elderly patients operated in northeast London has been successful in identifying those with the bone-thinning disease, as well as those found to be at risk for it. Hemant Patel, secretary of...

Impath. (People in Places).
October 3, 2002... * James Agnello was appointed senior vice president and CFO at Impath (New York), effective Oct. 21. Agnello spent 18 years with SmithKline Beecham in various financial capacities, most recently as vice president and controller of SmithKline...

Perlegen Sciences. (People in Places).
October 3, 2002... * Paul Cusenza joined Perlegen Sciences (Mountain View, California)in the newly created position of vice president of alliance management. He previously was managing director of value-added alliances and vice president of marketing and analysis...

Varian. (People in Places).
October 3, 2002... * Varian (Palo Alto, California) named James Swon its general manager of pharmaceutical products, overseeing the company's liquid chromatography sales and marketing operations. He also will continue to manage Varian's dissolution system...

Calypte biomedical. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) reported at last week's U.S. Conference on AIDS in Anaheim, California, information about the benefits and performance of its urine-based HIV-1 tests, the only two FDA-approved measures by such a...

Chemicon international. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * Chemicon International (Temecula, California) released its West Nile OligoDetect kit, a post-amplification detection kit for the identification of genetic material specific to the virus. The kit comes in a high-throughput, 96well format...

Digene. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) filed with the FDA an amendment to its premarket approval supplement application to commercialize its Hybrid Capture 2 HPV DNA Test as a primary screening test for cervical cancer and its precursors in...

GeneData AG. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * GeneData AG (Basel, Switzerland) released version 4.0 of the GeneData Expressionist suite, its software system for life science large-scale microarray processing. The Expressionist suite, made of three integrated modules, is designed for the...

Given imaging. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported the publication of results of a controlled clinical trial comparing wireless capsule endoscopy with push enteroscopy in chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, published in the September issue of Endoscopy....

Instrumentation laboratory. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * Instrumentation Laboratory (Lexington, Massachusetts) received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Intelligent Quality Management (iQM) system, an automated quality assurance system for use with the GEM Premier 3000 critical care analyzer, which...

QRS diagnostic. (Product Briefs).
October 3, 2002... * QRS Diagnostic (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a developer of software-based medical devices, said that the first of its two patents on the design of medical devices contained entirely in computer cards, such as PCMCIA cards and Compact Flash...

Dade Behring exits bankruptcy, cites long-term growth outlook.
October 10, 2002... Climbing out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, clinical diagnostics firm Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) said last week that it had completed its debt restructuring, a move the firm said establishes a sound capital structure to support the long-term...

Companies diagnose healthcare as opportunity for investors. (UBS Warburg Life Sciences Conference).
October 10, 2002... If you're looking to diagnose a theme running throughout this week's UBS Warburg Global Life Sciences Conference at New York's Plaza Hotel, continued growth certainly could be called the No. 1 topic. But such growth is most assuredly not a...

Implant Sciences gets federal backing on security screening.
October 10, 2002... Anti-terrorist security might not be the first thought that comes to mind when discussing medical imaging technology. But one company operating in that field hopes the correlation becomes a reality. Implant Sciences (Wakefield,...

Cellular analysis system gets clearance for breast cancer.
October 10, 2002... A more specific approval in hand, ChromaVision Medical Systems (San Juan Capistrano, California) has begun touting its cellular imaging system for breast cancer detection and therapy. The company's ACIS (Automated Cellular Imaging System)...

Europe steps up campaign to break Myriad's hold on BRCA1. (Report from Europe).
October 10, 2002... Three French medical establishments are challenging a third patent issued by the European Patents Office to Myriad Genetics (Salt Lake City, Utah) for the BRCA1 cancer susceptibility gene, after filing two earlier complaints in October 2001 and...

Prime medical acquires mobile imaging business. (Deals roundup).
October 10, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Prime Medical Services (PMS; Austin, Texas) acquired Netherlands-based Smit Mobile Equipment (Oud-Beijerland, Holland), a manufacturer of mobile medical imaging vehicles with 2001 sales of about $9...

Covance (Princeton, New Jersey) acquired Virtual Central Laboratory BV (VCL; Zeist, the Netherlands), a company that uses a system to harmonize laboratory results from local and regional laboratories to help expand the reach of traditional central laboratory services. (Deals roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Covance (Princeton, New Jersey) acquired Virtual Central Laboratory BV (VCL; Zeist, the Netherlands), a company that uses a system to harmonize laboratory results from local and regional laboratories to help expand the reach of traditional...

Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati, Ohio) said it is continuing due diligence of diagnostics firm Biotrin Holdings plc (Dublin, Ireland), and is concurrently negotiating a definitive stock purchase agreement. (Deals roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati, Ohio) said it is continuing due diligence of diagnostics firm Biotrin Holdings plc (Dublin, Ireland), and is concurrently negotiating a definitive stock purchase agreement. The expected date for the closing of...

Optical Sensors (OSI; Minneapolis, Minnesota) has acquired the assets of Vasamedics (St. Paul, Minnesota). (Deals roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Optical Sensors (OSI; Minneapolis, Minnesota) has acquired the assets of Vasamedics (St. Paul, Minnesota). OSI will conduct Vasamedics' blood flow business under the Vasamedics name and will maintain its sales to research institutions serving...

Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) entered into a collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York) to study genes that may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. (Agreements).
October 10, 2002... Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) entered into a collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York) to study genes that may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. BMS will provide clinical...

SurroMed (Mountain View, California) was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland). (Agreements).
October 10, 2002... SurroMed (Mountain View, California) was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland). The funding will support application of SurroMed's integrated biological marker discovery...

Enterix (Falmouth, Maine) entered a partnership with Healthcare Executive Partners (HExPa; Horsham, Pennsylvania), a healthcare consulting and management firm that works with pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare technology companies to create value for payer organizations. (Agreements).
October 10, 2002... Enterix (Falmouth, Maine) entered a partnership with Healthcare Executive Partners (HExPa; Horsham, Pennsylvania), a healthcare consulting and management firm that works with pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare technology companies to...

Enterix (Falmouth, Maine) entered a partnership with Healthcare Executive Partners (HExPa; Horsham, Pennsylvania), a consulting and management firm that works with pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare technology companies to create incremental value for payer organizations. (Agreements).
October 10, 2002... Enterix (Falmouth, Maine) entered a partnership with Healthcare Executive Partners (HExPa; Horsham, Pennsylvania), a consulting and management firm that works with pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare technology companies to create...

Hemagen Diagnostics. (Financings).
October 10, 2002... Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland), a maker of diagnostic test kits, has signed an agreement for a $1 million revolving line of credit facility with Bay National Bank. The company said the credit facility would be used to finance working...

Net loss, revenues increase for MRI manufacturer Fonar. (Earnings roundup).
October 10, 2002... Fonar (Melville, New York) reported a net loss of $22.9 million for fiscal 2002 ended June 30, up from the loss of $15.2 million in the prior fiscal year. Revenues for the year increased to $44.7 million from $42.3 million a year earlier.

Cholestech. (Earnings roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Cholestech (Hayward, California), a provider of diagnostic tests and testing services, said in a preliminary report that it expects to report revenues in the range of $12 million to $12.2 million and earnings of 7 cents to 8 cents a share for...

Haemonetics. (Earnings roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts) issued preliminary results for the second fiscal quarter showing record revenues of $87 million, up 8% from the year-earlier period, and expected earnings per share of 26 cents to 27 cents. Haemonetics...

Unilab (Tarzana, California) said it expects its 3Q02 earnings to exceed the consensus analysts' expectation of 26.5 cents a diluted share by 10% or more. (Earnings roundup).
October 10, 2002... * Unilab (Tarzana, California) said it expects its 3Q02 earnings to exceed the consensus analysts' expectation of 26.5 cents a diluted share by 10% or more. Unilab is the largest provider of clinical laboratory testing services in California,...

Daxor. (People in Places).
October 10, 2002... * Kirk Brandt was named southwest regional sales manager for Daxor (New York), manufacturer of the BVA-100 a semi-automated Blood Volume Analyzer. Brandt has held sales executive positions with Spacelabs Medical, GE Medical Systems, Baxter...

Fujifilm Medical Systems. (People in Places).
October 10, 2002... * Robert Cooke has joined Fujifilm Medical Systems (Stamford, Connecticut) as executive director of marketing, network systems. He previously was head of strategic marketing for informatics for Agfa's HealthCare Informatics business. Fujifilm...

NeoGenomics. (People in Places).
October 10, 2002... * Peter Kohn, PhD, FACMG, was appointed director of the clinical genetics and research laboratory of NeoGenomics (Naples, Florida). Kohn founded and was president, chief executive officer, and medical and cytogenetics laboratory director for...

Varian. (People in Places).
October 10, 2002... * Varian (Palo Alto, California) reorganized management, it said, to "consolidate global operations and provide additional management resources for developing early-stage emerging businesses." Tim Guertin, president of Oncology Systems, was...

Andromed. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Andromed (Montreal, Quebec) reported receiving FDA approval of its Biological Sounds Monitor (BSM) technological platform. The non-invasive, adhesive and disposable sensor is Andromed's enabling technology for the core platform of its...

Genzyme Molecular Oncology. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Genzyme Molecular Oncology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said the Japanese Patent Office has issued patent No. 3334806 covering its Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) technology. The patent covers the methodology by which SAGE identifies...

Immunicon. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) received FDA 510(k) clearance for its CellPrep Sample Preparation System. The CellPrep system is a general-purpose in vitro laboratory instrument used with immunomagnetic reagents that capture and...

Instrumentarium Imaging. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Instrumentarium Imaging, a division of Instrumentarium (Helsinki, Finland) received FDA clearance for the Delta 32 and Delta 32 TACT (Tuned Aperture Computed Tomography) diagnostic digital breast imaging systems intended to be used for...

i-STAT. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * i-STAT (East Windsor, New Jersey) began the first of a series of clinical studies designed to demonstrate improvement in patient outcomes after implementation of the i-STAT System. The studies will test the hypothesis that rapid presentation...

Magna-Lab. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Magna-Lab (Lynnfield, Massachusetts) concluded its collaborative study with Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) using the company's intra-vascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) catheter coil on animal subjects. The study...

Nomos. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Nomos (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) released Nomos Rx, an intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) remote treatment planning service developed to provide treatment facilities quicker access to radiation therapy. IMRT allows for the delivery...

Urrma Biopharma. (Product Briefs).
October 10, 2002... * Urrma Biopharma (Montreal, Quebec) received FDA approval for its investigational device exemption application for the Anti-R7V Diagnostic Kit. The company said the anti-R7V antibody is found to be present in significant amounts in people who...

Cytyc follows up on success of ThinPrep with FirstCyte. (UBS Warburg Life Sciences Conference).
October 17, 2002... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) has made a bigtime name for itself in the cervical cancer-screening sector, with its flagship ThinPrep Pap Test product now boasting something on the order of 54% market penetration. But in an era where...

Sciona demonstrates DNA test kit at UK pharmacy conference. (Report from Europe).
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report UK pharmacists were treated last month to the first practical demonstration of how the billions spent on the Human Genome Project will change the way health care is delivered. Using his own...

Abbott to cut 2,000, shutter 10 facilities in restructuring.
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) last week revealed plans to implement a restructuring program that will see some 2,000 jobs cut and the closing of about 10 facilities. The job cuts...

MediSpectra launches trial of Luma in cervical cancer.
October 17, 2002... Developmental firm MediSpectra (Lexington, Massachusetts) last week reported launch of a pivotal trial of its Luma system for assessing cervical cancer. That launch provides a major step forward on a road that Robert Anacone, company president...

Igen analyzer, reagents used in anthrax field research tests. (Bioterrorism: fighting back).
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) and the Canadian government's Defense Research and Development Laboratories used Igen International's (Gaithersburg,...

General Physics (GP; Elkridge, Maryland), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corp. (Bioterrorism: fighting back).
October 17, 2002... * General Physics (GP; Elkridge, Maryland), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corp., has been selected by the Tennessee Department of Health, through a competitive procurement process, to assess bioterrorism preparedness for more than 160 Tennessee...

Bayer closes Visible Genetics buy; Quest/Unilab extended. (Deals roundup).
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Bayer Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) completed its acquisition of Visible Genetics (VGI; Toronto, Ontario). Bayer Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Bayer (Leverkusen, Germany), completed its...

Waters. (Deals roundup).
October 17, 2002... * Waters (Milford, Massachusetts) has agreed to acquire the worldwide theology business of Rheometric Scientific (Piscataway, New Jersey) for $17 million in cash and the assumption of $6 million in trade debt. The deal is slated for completion...

Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of laboratory and life science products. (Deals roundup).
October 17, 2002... * Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of laboratory and life science products, reported acquiring NeoMarkers (Fremont, California) and Opus Diagnostics (Fort Lee, New Jersey) through two of its subsidiaries. On Oct....

Orchid BioSciences quitting SNPs tools, keeping services.
October 17, 2002... When a company provides a "business strategy update" these days, the news usually includes a cutback of some kind, and Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) proved no exception, saying earlier this week that it is phasing out its single...

Success reported with system providing `road map' of brain. (American College of Surgeons).
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Surgeons from the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) reported results from a test of a commercially available computerized image-guided neurosurgery system that links sonograms with magnetic...

Loma Linda University Medical Center. (American College of Surgeons).
October 17, 2002... * Researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) reported that they found magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) a better method of estimating a patient's ability to return to normal functioning than the widely used...

MAGNET renews $12M lab pact with Beckman Coulter. (Grants/contract news).
October 17, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Update Staff Report Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) reported renewal of its agreement with Mid-Atlantic Group Network of Shared Services (MAGNET; Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) for clinical diagnostic...

Peoples Genetics (Woburn, Massachusetts), a private genomics company, has received $2 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program. (Grants/contract news).
October 17, 2002... * Peoples Genetics (Woburn, Massachusetts), a private genomics company, has received $2 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program to develop an instrument enabling it to discover, it said,...

Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reached an agreement in principle for its NMP66 breast cancer test with Mitsubishi Kagaku Medical (Tokyo), a division of Mitsubishi Chemical. (Agreements).
October 17, 2002... Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reached an agreement in principle for its NMP66 breast cancer test with Mitsubishi Kagaku Medical (Tokyo), a division of Mitsubishi Chemical. The companies signed the terms of the agreement and are developing...

Xoma (Berkeley, California) and Diagnostic Products Corp. (Los Angeles, California) expanded their licensing collaboration relating to Xoma's LBP (lipopolysaccaride binding protein) assay technology for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases associated with exposure to Gram-negative bacteria and endotoxin. (Agreements).
October 17, 2002... Xoma (Berkeley, California) and Diagnostic Products Corp. (Los Angeles, California) expanded their licensing collaboration relating to Xoma's LBP (lipopolysaccaride binding protein) assay technology for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases...

Radiological panel reschedules meeting. (Briefly Noted).
October 17, 2002... A meeting of the FDA's Radiological Devices Advisory Panel originally set for Oct. 15 was postponed and will be rescheduled, "as soon as possible," the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health reported last week. The rescheduling was...

Igen expands global operations. (Briefly Noted).
October 17, 2002... Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) opened new offices in Witney, UK, and San Diego, California. The office in Witney will serve as Igen's European sales, marketing and customer service headquarters and replaces current facilities in...