Data from an ongoing UA respiratory study spanning more than 40 years shows that persistent (chronic) insomnia is associated with higher levels of inflammation in the blood and a 58 percent increased risk of death.
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ASU revises royalty policy, more proceeds to researchers
Arizona State University researchers with inventions licensed to existing companies or to form new startups will be entitled to a larger share of the proceeds under a new university policy developed by the Intellectual Property and Institutional Review Committee and approved by President Michael Crow.
SynCardia Named Innovator of the Year by the 2014 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards for Its Freedom Portable Driver
SynCardia was honored for its Freedom portable driver that powers the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart. This allows clinically stable implant patients to be discharged from the hospital to wait for their matching donor hearts at home and their community.
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CredibleMeds Awarded Three-Year FDA Contract To Support the Safe Use of Antibiotics
New award to fund partnership with Banner Health and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
New Autism Study Safety Data to be Presented at the Translational Neuroscience Cell Symposium
Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®) announced today that Dr. Michael G. Chez principal investigator at Sutter Neuroscience Institute will present data from the first ever FDA-registered study on the safety of autologous umbilical cord blood (AUCB) stem cells in treating autism at the Translational Neuroscience: Bridging the Gap Between Basic Research Discoveries and Clinical Applications Cell Symposium on November 14 2014 in Arlington Virginia.Continue reading
NuvOx Pharma Announces Published Manuscript in the Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs & Therapy
NuvOx Pharma announced that a manuscript describing results of the Company’s product dodecafluoropentane emulsion (DDFPe) in reducing damage from myocardial infarction (MI) has been published in the journal Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy.Continue reading
DxInsights inside EPEMED – An EPEMED European Knowledge Center on Personalised Medicine and Diagnostics.
On November 13, 2014, EPEMED and DxInsights announced their partnership during the joint EPEMED 4th International Conference and 3rd Health Economics & Personalised Medicine Symposium at the Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam.
Moving Ideas to Market Becomes the UA Way
Through the support of Tech Launch Arizona, founded to lead UA invention and commercialization activities, researchers disclose new inventions, patents are filed, products are licensed and companies are established by the hundreds each year. (Photo: Ariel da Sliva Parreira)Continue reading
Leaders From Three AZBio Member Organizations are in the running for Business Person of the Year
The three AZBio Member nominees are: Michael Crow (ASU), MaryAnn Guerra (BioAcccel) and Brian Mueller(GCU).Continue reading
SynCardia 2014 Engineering Scholarship for Women Awarded to University of Arizona Junior Justine Bacchus
The Anna Salazar Memorial Engineering Scholarship honors a late SynCardia employee by supporting women in pursuit of engineering degrees.Continue reading