Read the full press release here Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and PPD, Inc., a leading global provider of clinical research services to the pharma and biotech industry, today announced that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will acquire PPD for $47.50 per share for a total […]
Read the full press release here PPD, Inc. was named “Best Contract Research Organization” at the 14th annual Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) Awards during the 2021 World Vaccine Congress. Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES), a business of PPD, received the honor of “highly commended” in the category of “Best Clinical Trial Network.” “When it comes to helping customers […]
Read the full press release here Serious runners and casual walkers alike are invited to join a month-long Get Your Rear in Gear® – Madison run/walk virtual event during May to raise money and awareness for colorectal cancer screening efforts. Colorectal cancer is the nation’s No. 2 cancer killer, but it is up to 95% preventable with proper […]
Read the full press release In the last decade, scientists discovered a quirk of drug chemistry: If you add on a simple one-carbon building block to a drug, it can make the drug more potent, less toxic, or more stable. Adding this one-carbon methyl group improves drugs often enough it garnered the term the “magic […]
Read the full press release The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), a statewide health philanthropy based at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has announced a $230,000 funding award to support a coalition of partners in increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates in Milwaukee County, with a focus on 10 highly impacted and high-risk ZIP codes. “The COVID-19 […]
Read the full press release here BostonGene and the Medical College of Wisconsin on Tuesday announced a research partnership to identify predictive biomarkers for pancreatic cancer. Specifically, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based biomedical software firm and the Medical College of Wisconsin will analyze whether pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients’ unique tumor microenvironments affect their treatment responses. BostonGene will […]
Read the full press release here W Health experts are pushing for the community to get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing a growing collection of evidence that vaccines are effective against the coronavirus. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other studies, there’s a stark difference in COVID-19 vulnerability between those […]
Read the full press release here Wisconsin vaccinators have begun to use Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine again after a two-week pause while federal officials investigated rare but serious blood clots. Federal regulators put a temporary halt to the nation’s only one-shot vaccine on April 13 after six women between the ages of 18 and […]
Read the full press release here Gov. Tony Evers today, together with Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) Secretary-designee Dawn Crim, visited and toured the Pfizer facility in Pleasant Prairie. The governor also signed Assembly Bill (AB) 120, now Wisconsin Act 25, which will help Pfizer, Inc., and Wisconsin continue to provide COVID-19 vaccine, vaccination […]
Read the full press release here In what’s being hailed as “a major milestone for nuclear medicine,” NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has received a pair of high-tech machines that will be used to produce radioactive material used in millions of medical procedures each year. The 24-ton particle accelerators arrived in Beloit Tuesday on flatbed trucks, capping […]