Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from October 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from October 2004

GE in competitive scramble for managing fourth 'D' of motion.(ASTRO 2004)
October 7, 2004... ATLANTA -- In therapeutic imaging, the fourth dimension is time. And time means motion. And motion is a problem. It's particularly a problem in cancer treatment in the area of the chest, which is in constant movement, even with a...

Pharmacy initiative shows high levels of UK heart risk.(Report from Europe)
October 7, 2004... New research reported at last week's British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester, UK, indicates that more than half the people tested in a national pharmacy initiative to identify the threat of high blood pressure were found to be at risk....

LabNow nets $14 million for new point-of-care diagnostic system.(Financings roundup)
October 7, 2004... LabNow (Austin, Texas), a developer of a point-of-care diagnostic systems, reported raising $14 million in equity financing from a syndicate of private and venture investors led by George Soros, with the participation of Austin Ventures. ...

CDRH's Schultz: no lack of innovation in device sector.(Center for Devices and Radiological Health)(Daniel Schultz)
October 7, 2004... WASHINGTON -- "We should be using our knowledge to partner with industry to the extent possible to help products get to market so they can help benefit patients," said Daniel Schultz, MD, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and...

Del Global in agreement with U.S. government on RFI unit.(Court report)
October 7, 2004... Del Global Technologies (DGTC; Valhalla, New York) said it entered into a settlement agreement on Sept. 30 with the U.S. government regarding the civil and criminal aspects of the previously announced U.S. Department of Defense investigation of...

Senators introduce medical device competition legislation.(Washington roundup)(Medical Device Competition Act of 2004)
October 7, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Last Friday, Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin) and Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) introduced S 2880, a bill also called the Medical Device Competition Act of 2004. The legislation is the result of almost three years of hearings into the...

Qiagen completes acquisition of Molecular Staging assets.(Deals roundup)
October 7, 2004... Qiagen (Venlo, the Netherlands) said it has completed the acquisition of the key assets of privately held Molecular Staging (MSI; New Haven, Connecticut), which has developed a range of proprietary products and services based on its Multiple...

BioVeris snares $1.4m order for analyzers from U.S. Air Force.(Grants/contracts)
October 7, 2004... BioVeris (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said that the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command has placed a $1.4 million order to purchase the company's new M-Series M1M Analyzers for use in the detection of biological agents. The biological agents are...

Motorola, Partners Telemedicine in collaboration.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Motorola (Schaumburg, Illinois) and Partners Telemedicine (Boston), a service of Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, have entered a collaboration to test MotoHealth, a Motorola solution that uses mobile phones to help healthcare providers...

FDA to host public meeting on MDUFMA.(Briefly Noted)(Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... The FDA said that a public meeting, called Second Annual Stakeholder Meeting on the Implementation of the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 (MDUFMA), will be held Nov. 18 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration is required by Oct....

Biotronik (Portland, Oregon) reported FDA approval and first implants of a second-generation Home Monitoring product.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Biotronik (Portland, Oregon) reported FDA approval and first implants of a second-generation Home Monitoring product, the Philos II DR-T pacemaker. The device is part of a system that incorporates Home Monitoring early detection technology,...

DiaDexus.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... diaDexus (South San Francisco, California) said a prospective cohort study of the MONICA population, a landmark 14-year population study, was published in the Oct. 5 issue of Circulation. Data from the study support the measurement of...

Gen-Probe (San Diego) and Chiron (Emeryville, California) said that a biologics license application for the Procleix Ultrio blood screening assay has been submitted to the FDA.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Gen-Probe (San Diego) and Chiron (Emeryville, California) said that a biologics license application for the Procleix Ultrio blood screening assay has been submitted to the FDA. The Procleix Ultrio Assay was developed to simultaneously detect...

Iris International (Chatsworth, California) reported that its new iQ200 product platform would be introduced to the Japanese medical diagnostics market.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Iris International (Chatsworth, California) reported that its new iQ200 product platform would be introduced to the Japanese medical diagnostics market at this week's exhibition of the Japan Society of Clinical Laboratory Automation in...

Nanogen (San Diego) reported that its SynX (Toronto) subsidiary was issued U.S. patent No. 6,780,606, "Method for diagnosing and distinguishing stroke and diagnostic devices for use therein.".(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Nanogen (San Diego) reported that its SynX (Toronto) subsidiary was issued U.S. patent No. 6,780,606, "Method for diagnosing and distinguishing stroke and diagnostic devices for use therein," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent...

The Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) unit of Royal Philips Electronics reported commercial shipment of its Brilliance 40-channel computed tomography (CT) scanner to the global imaging community for installation this month.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... The Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) unit of Royal Philips Electronics reported commercial shipment of its Brilliance 40-channel computed tomography (CT) scanner to the global imaging community for installation this month....

Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported the details of ongoing clinical research conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) to further improve the clinical application of the company's Aquilion multi-detector CT system.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported the details of ongoing clinical research conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) to further improve the clinical application of the company's Aquilion...

TriPath Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said it has submitted new clinical data to the FDA to seek expanded claims for the FocalPoint Slide Profiler to include approval of the FocalPoint GS Imaging System. In a supplemental filing to its...

Alliance Imaging.(People in Places)(Andrew Hayek )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Andrew Hayek has been promoted to president of Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California) in addition to his role as COO, a post he has held since April 2003. Alliance is a provider of diagnostic imaging services, primarily to hospitals and other...

Analogic.(People in Places)(Craig Burch )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Craig Burch has joined Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) as vice president of marketing for volumetric imaging modalities. In this newly created position, he will steer the direction of new product developments for niche markets in areas such...

Applied NeuroSolutions.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Applied NeuroSolutions (Vernon Hills, Illinois) said that Bruce Barron, who has been an officer of the company since 1993 and has served as chairman since 1999 and CEO since 1995, resigned as CEO to accept a position as partner and manager for...

Exact Sciences.(People in Places)(Harry Wilcox )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Harry Wilcox has been named senior vice president and CFO of Exact Sciences (Marlborough, Massachusetts). Wilcox joins Exact Sciences from Beacon BioPartners, where he was a partner. Exact Sciences is applying genomics knowledge to develop...

Kline & Co.(People in Places)(Steve Chen )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Dr. Steve Chen has been named healthcare industry manager for the consulting division of Kline & Co. (Little Falls, New Jersey), an international business consulting and market research firm. He will focus on the practice's core service...

In Vivo Medical Diagnostics.(People in Places)(Patricia Connolly )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Patricia Connolly has been appointed chief science officer of In Vivo Medical Diagnostics (IVMD; Inverness, Scotland). She is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Strathclyde, where her research work centers on medical diagnostic...

Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Atul Minocha has been appointed vice president of global marketing for the Reconstructive Division of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics (Memphis, Tennessee). He previously was chief marketing officer of the Health Imaging Group of Eastman Kodak and...

Varian Medical Systems.(People in Places)(Chris Hanna )(Brief Article)
October 7, 2004... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California), a manufacturer of integrated cancer therapy systems, reported the formation of an Oncology Information Systems unit within its Oncology Systems business to develop and market the company's...

CDRH releases new guidance on third-party 510(k) review.(Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
October 14, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently issued guidance to industry and the agency on third-party review of premarket 510(k) submissions. The guidance, released late last month, offers...

MicroMRI gets $4M NIH grant for Virtual Bone Biopsy tech.(National Institutes of Health)
October 14, 2004... MicroMRI (Philadelphia) reported this week receiving a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I + Phase II Fast Track grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda,...

Lab-on-a-chip sector poised for growth, says tech analyst.(Report from Europe)
October 14, 2004... Development of lab-on-a-chip (LOC) products has soared in recent years, driven by improvements in harnessing microfluidics and uTAS (miniature total analysis system) to improve design and function. The advantages that they bestow on...

Varian in $32M Magnex buy following five-year relationship.(Deals roundup)
October 14, 2004... Varian (Palo Alto, California) said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Magnex Scientific (Oxford, UK) for $32 million in cash and assumed net debt, subject to certain net asset adjustments. The transaction also will include...

Senate hearing brings views on broader BioShield program.
October 14, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers, pharmaceutical and healthcare industry representatives met on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to discuss BioShield II, a follow-up to the original BioShield project signed by President George Bush in July. The first...

Ekips receives NHLBI funding for laser-based asthma meter.(Grants/contracts news)
October 14, 2004... Laser and laser-based systems manufacturer Ekips Technologies (Norman, Oklahoma) reported receiving a $750,000 Phase II grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) for...

PainCare prices 8M share offer; Windrose sells more shares.(Financings roundup)
October 14, 2004... PainCare Holdings (Orlando, Florida) said it has priced a public offering of 8 million shares of its common stock at $1.90 a share. Management said it intends to use the net proceeds to make acquisitions, to repay capital lease obligations and...

Spacelabs demonstrates growth, outperforming overall market.
October 14, 2004... In its first full quarter as an OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California) company, patient monitoring firm Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington) had substantial revenue growth and was profitable, OSI said in its own financial report for the...

Roche files suit vs. Winsur on patent for lancing device.(Court report)
October 14, 2004... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) reported that it filed complaints for patent and trademark infringement and unfair competition in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana vs. Winsur Wholesale (Corona, California). Winsur...

Epigenomics in collaboration with Biogen Idec on biomarkers.(Agreements)
October 14, 2004... Epigenomics AG (Berlin), a molecular diagnostic company developing tests based on DNA methylation, said that the company has entered into a research collaboration with Biogen Idec (Cambridge, Massachusetts) to identify potential biomarkers for...

ECRI reviews BNP testing.(Briefly Noted)(B-type natriuretic peptide testing)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... ECRI's (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania) systematic review of published studies finds that B-type natriuretic peptide testing (also called the BNP blood test) is capable of detecting heart failure, and its use in any clinical setting will most...

GE launches humanitarian project in Africa.(Briefly Noted)(General Electric Co.)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... GE (Fairfield, Connecticut) reported the launch of a five-year, $20 million humanitarian project that aims to bring improved healthcare provision and infrastructure to hospitals and clinics in Africa. Four GE businesses--GE Healthcare, GE...

Bruker BioSciences.(People in Places)(William Knight )(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Bruker BioSciences (Billerica, Massachusetts) has appointed William Knight as its new CFO, effective Oct. 25. Knight was most recently CFO of Anika Therapeutics. Bruker BioSciences is the publicly traded parent company of Bruker AXS, which...

Given Imaging.(People in Places)(Mark Colby)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Mark Colby has been named corporate vice-president and general manager for Japan and the rest of the world for Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel). Colby has worked with Given Imaging as a consultant since December 2003. Previously, he served as...

Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics.(People in Places)(Atul Minocha )(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Atul Minocha has been appointed vice president of global marketing for the Reconstructive Division of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics (Memphis, Tennessee). He previously was chief marketing officer of the Health Imaging Group of Eastman Kodak and...

Zonare Medical Systems.(People in Places)(Kevin Davidge)(Robert Terranova )(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California) has appointed Kevin Davidge vice president and CFO. In addition, the company named Robert Terranova vice president of operations. Prior to Zonare Medical Systems, Davidge served as CFO for R2...

Biotronik (Portland, Oregon) reported FDA approval and first implants of a second-generation Home Monitoring product.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Biotronik (Portland, Oregon) reported FDA approval and first implants of a second-generation Home Monitoring product, the Philos II DR-T pacemaker. The device is part of a system that incorporates Home Monitoring early detection technology,...

Media Cybernetics.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Media Cybernetics (Silver Spring, Maryland) reported the release of IQstudio, the latest Windows-based technology for developing analytical imaging applications. IQlogic, the object model exposed by IQstudio and the IQ run-time objects,...

SunTech Medical.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... SunTech Medical (Morrisville, North Carolina) said its Oscar 2 oscillometric 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) has received international protocol validation, as reported in the August 2004 issue of Blood Pressure Monitoring....

Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported the details of ongoing clinical research.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported the details of ongoing clinical research being conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) to further improve the clinical application of the company's Aquilion...

TriPath Imaging.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said it has submitted new clinical data to the FDA to seek expanded claims for the FocalPoint Slide Profiler to include approval of the FocalPoint GS Imaging System. In a supplemental filing to its...

Dengue fever test used in southern China.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2004... Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) reported that its Dengue fever rapid test kit is to be used on an experimental basis in the People's Republic of China. Currently there is an outbreak of Dengue fever in the southern provinces...

NIH Roadmap reports progress toward 'new ways of thinking'.
October 21, 2004... BETHESDA, Maryland -- A little more than a year after launching its Roadmap for Medical Research program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) reports making significant progress toward accelerating the pace of medical...

Siemens introduces Artis dBA neurointerventional system.
October 21, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) has introduced the Axiom Artis dBA, which it said is the world's first flat-panel, detector-based neurointerventional biplane system, at the LINC Course-Houston 2004 earlier this month in...

UK getting back to basics in wide-ranging program on TB.(Report from Europe)
October 21, 2004... New measures to tackle and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the UK were reported earlier this month by Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson under a plan dubbed "Stopping Tuberculosis in England." Donaldson said, "In our battle...

deCode garners $24M for study of infectious disease genetics.
October 21, 2004... Working to better understand infectious diseases, the University of New Mexico (UNM; Albuquerque) is joining with deCode genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR; Santa Fe, New Mexico) in a five-year...

BioVeris broadens its model to add immunogenicity focus.
October 21, 2004... BioVeris (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said Tuesday that it is expanding its business model--currently focused on bioterrorism detection systems and clinical diagnostics--to target the fields of immunogenicity, vaccines and vaccination services. ...

Cosgrove: innovation, speed determining future of medicine.(Delos Cosgrove)
October 21, 2004... CLEVELAND -- What precisely does innovation mean in the context of healthcare? That was the question that Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, the newly appointed president and CEO of The Cleveland Clinic, addressed in opening remarks for the 2004...

Infrared Sciences completes $1M Series A for BreastScan IR.(Financings roundup)(CIVCO Holdings )
October 21, 2004... Infrared Sciences (ISC; Hauppauge, New York) reported completing a $1 million Series A preferred stock financing, acquiring the capital necessary to introduce its BreastScan IR product to "a broader market of doctors and patients." Using...

ViroLogic, Aclara BioSciences report on revisions to merger.(Deals roundup)
October 21, 2004... ViroLogic (South San Francisco, California) and Aclara BioSciences (Mountain View, California) on Tuesday reported modifications of the terms of contingent value rights (CVR) in the merger agreement executed by them earlier this year. The deal...

Fisher Imaging, Philips in product integration accord.(Agreements roundup)
October 21, 2004... Fischer Imaging (Denver) and Philips Medical Systems (Hamburg, Germany), a division of Royal Philips Electronics, entered into a three-year, global agreement under which Philips will sell, service and support a specialized version of Fischer's...

$38 million in funding to push lower-cost DNA sequencing.(Grants/contracts)
October 21, 2004... The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; both Bethesda, Maryland) has unveiled a group of grants totaling more than $38 million, intended, it said, "to spur the development of innovative...

Cholestech.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Jack Glenn has joined Cholestech (Hayward, California) as vice president of finance and CFO. Glenn joins Cholestech from Invivo, where he served as vice president of finance and CFO since 1990. Cholestech offers diagnostic testing for...

Molecular Imaging.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Kenneth Frederick has been appointed CEO of Molecular Imaging (Tempe, Arizona). He has served on the company's board since June. Frederick's prior experience includes management positions at Symmorphix, a spin-off of Applied Materials,...

SpectRx.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said that Thomas "Thos" Muller Jr. is planning to retire from his position as executive vice president and CFO effective at the end of November. Upon his retirement, Muller will become a consultant to the company....

US Labs.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * James Thompson, MD, PhD, has been appointed senior medical director of US Labs (Irvine, California). Thompson continues to serve as CEO and medical director for Pathogenesys, which conducts pathology testing to help pharmaceutical and...

ALA locates to new office.(Association for Laboratory Automation)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA; St. Charles, Illinois) said it would relocate its headquarters office to Geneva, Illinois, effective Nov. 1. The new office will be at 330 West State Street, Suite 1. ALA comprises scientists...

Fischer Imaging has new audit firm.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... Fischer Imaging (Denver) said that its board of directors, acting on the recommendation of the audit committee of the board, has named a new audit firm, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman, to succeed Ernst & Young, the company's auditor for the...

Applied Biosystems Group.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), an Applera business, reported the introduction of the Applied Biosystems 9800 Fast PCR System. The system delivers polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results in a standard 96-well plate in...

Chronix Biomedical.(Product Briefs)
October 21, 2004... * Chronix Biomedical (San Jose, California) reported that it has filed an application for a diagnostic test patent that will help safeguard the blood supply, healthcare workers and patients. The patent application is for the detection of...

Epocrates.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Epocrates (San Mateo, California) reported the launch of Epocrates Essentials for Nurses, which includes an IV compatibility checker and infusion rate calculator along with the integrated drug, disease and diagnostic references that comprise...

GE Healthcare.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported the introduction of a new high-performance compact ultrasound system, Logiq Book XP, with expanded capabilities for the emergency room and surgery. Weighing just 10 pounds, the easy-to-use...

IntegraMed.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * IntegraMed (Purchase, New York) reported the release of the newest version of ARTWorks, an electronic medical records system designed for reproductive medicine practices, with expanded modules for preimplantation genetic diagnosis, financial...

Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reported the issuance of U.S. patent No. 6,803,189, covering methods of using a nucleic acid sequence encoding for the NMP179 protein to detect cervical cancer.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reported the issuance of U.S. patent No. 6,803,189, covering methods of using a nucleic acid sequence encoding for the NMP179 protein to detect cervical cancer. Its partner, Sysmex (Kobe, Japan), is...

SunTech Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * SunTech Medical (Morrisville, North Carolina) said its Oscar 2 oscillometric 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) has received international protocol validation, as reported in the August issue of Blood Pressure Monitoring. Oscar...

Royal Philips Electronics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2004... * Royal Philips Electronics (Andover, Massachusetts) reported the launch of a new generation of cardiac ultrasound equipment with high-definition imaging and on-cart data analysis tools. The iE33 intelligent echocardiography system features...

Abbott expands line of AxSYM cardiac immunoassay systems.
October 28, 2004... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Washington Editor The diagnostics division of Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) has expanded the product offering for its AxSYM automated immunoassay system with an updated test for the detection of cardiac...

Advanced Brain Monitoring now able to diagnose apnea at home.
October 28, 2004... Advanced Brain Monitoring (Carlsbad, California) has been cleared by the FDA to provide a service that will allow for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) without patients having to leave the comfort of their own bed and spending the...

Italian study boosts use of camera from Gamma Medica.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2004... Using a LumaGEM breast imaging camera manufactured by Gamma Medica (Northridge, California), a team of researchers from University Tor Vergata (Rome) detected breast cancers missed by standard mammography in three patients among a group of 29...

Approval sought for Procleix Tigris use.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2004... Chiron (Emeryville, California) and Gen-Probe (San Diego) said that a design dossier amendment for use of the Procleix Ultrio Assay on the Procleix Tigris System has been submitted to Gen-Probe's European notified body. The Procleix Ultrio...

IVMD files for another core patent.(Report from Europe)(In Vivo Medical Diagnostics)
October 28, 2004... In Vivo Medical Diagnostics (IVMD; Inverness, Scotland) said it has filed its 11th core patent application for its technology under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, in which the international patent application allows the company to...

Coalition targets the promise of personalized medicine.
October 28, 2004... WASHINGTON -- "It is not often you get a glimpse of the future, but that's what this is," J. Brian Munroe, vice president of government relations and public policy at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Massachusetts), told Diagnostics &...

Nanogen, Epoch set meetings; Carl Zeiss agrees to buy LDT.(Deals roundup)
October 28, 2004... Nanogen (San Diego), a developer of advanced diagnostic products, and Epoch Biosciences (Bothell, Washington), a provider of products designed to accelerate genomic analysis, reported that they will both hold special meetings of their...

DoD $2m to support battlefield device development by Tiax.(Grants/contracts)
October 28, 2004... Tiax (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported that it has been awarded three Phase II contracts by the Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program totaling more than $2 million. The grants will support Tiax's...

Biolog (Hayward, California) reported receiving an STTR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) to collaborate with Washington University (St. Louis) to develop Biolog's Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology for use with fastidious pathogens.(Grants/contracts)
October 28, 2004... * Biolog (Hayward, California) reported receiving an STTR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) to collaborate with Washington University (St. Louis) to develop Biolog's Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology for...

Competitive Tech, Bayer in settlement of patent claims.(Court report)
October 28, 2004... Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) and Bayer HealthCare (Tarrytown, New York), a member of the Bayer Group (Leverkusen, Germany), reported settling a patent case brought by CTT in U.S. District Court in Colorado, alleging...

Sequenom forms working group with Siemens Medical.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2004... Sequenom (San Diego) reported the formation of a joint working group with Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) of Siemens AG (Erlangen, Germany), a provider of medical systems and healthcare IT solutions, to explore the...

Immunicon adds $17m credit; CMA raises $7.5m in Series A.(Financings roundup)
October 28, 2004... Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania), a development-stage diagnostics company developing cell-based diagnostic and research products with an initial focus on cancer, reported the extension of two credit facilities by a total of $17...