Welcome to PennsylvaniaLifeScience.com
PennsylvaniaLifeScience.com is part of a specialized network of state- and province-based biotechnology, medical device,
and life science sites that includes more than 5,000 biotechnology, medical device, pharmaceutical companies,
non-profit research institutions, universities and supporting service sector companies across the U.S. and Canada.
This network addresses the growing informational and service needs of companies, patients, educators and others in
their respective states while providing clients the opportunity to cost effectively
advertise their job openings, events, facility availability and other services at the state level,
regionally or nationwide. We welcome your comments, suggestions and requests for informational content and supporting
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Learn about Seattle's Life Science Incubator Facility
Seattle's Life Science Incubator Research facility was commissioned in 1988, and is a contemporary-designed building provided with
modern research systems. Four floors are specifically laboratory space, one floor is a fully equipped vivarium and one floor is clinical
space and management offices. The faciility is centrally located in close proximity to downtown Seattle, the University of Washington,
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and more.
Learn about this and other biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical facilities available for sale,
lease or sublease in Pennsylvania, regionally or nationwide.
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- Dick Bond leaving Tyson Foods Dick Bond, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods, announced he is leaving the company, effective immediately. Leland Tollett, former chairman and CEO of the company, has agreed to return to the company as President and CEO on an interim basis.
Tyson Foods, Inc. January 05, 2009
- Escalon buys Immunodiagnostic Systems division Escalon Medical acquired the hematology business of Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings for $5.9 million. Hematology, the branch of biology that looks at blood and blood-forming organs, is one of the fields for which Escalon supplies equipment to laboratories.
Phildelphia Business Journal January 05, 2009
- PPD enters into strategic collaboration with Merck PPD announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Merck & Co. involving vaccine testing and assay development. Under the agreements, PPD purchased Merck's 130,000 square-foot vaccine testing laboratory and related equipment in Wayne, Penn.
PPD, Inc. January 05, 2009
- FDA Cardio Renal Advisory Committee to review Daiichi Sankyo, Lilly drug prasugrel Daiichi Sankyo Company and Eli Lilly and Company confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee (CRDAC) will review prasugrel during an advisory committee hearing on February 3, 2009.
Eli Lilly and Company December 31, 2008
- Johnson & Johnson completes acquisition of Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Johnson & Johnson announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company that develops and markets biosurgical and immunotherapy products.
Johnson & Johnson December 30, 2008
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Learn About Pennsylvania's BioHistory
Why is there a biotechnology industry in Pennsylvania? Will the industry continue
to grow in Pennsylvania? What do other states have? Each state has a unique story
that explains why a given industry has developed in a specific region and not in others.
Through Pennsylvania BioHistory, you can learn about the scientists,
institutions, political leaders, and significant events that have shaped and are still shaping
the biotechnology, medical device and life science industries in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Celebrate Life: World AIDS Day 2008
December 1 is World AIDS Day; a time to celebrate the many lives saved by HIV prevention and treatment programs.
It also serves as a reminder that we all must do more - as individuals, communities, and as world citizens - to fight the spread
of HIV and AIDS.
Around the world, 33 million people are living with HIV with nearly 7,500 new infections occurring each day. An estimated 3
million people are now receiving antiretroviral treatment in low and middle-income countries.
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BioFact
(1833) - First enzyme discovered and isolated.
It's a Small World
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" "... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.""
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Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. physicist, (Nobel Prize, 1946)
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