Life Science Company and Industry News Briefs

Durham, North Carolina is home to the prestigious, private research institute, Duke University. Quakers and Methodists first founded Duke in 1838, and originally named it Trinity College, until 1924 when tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment. This Endowment is a private establishment designed to serve as the key supporter for North Carolina and South Carolina's higher education, health care, children's welfare, and spiritual life programs.

If you sell research products, equipment or supplies to laboratory researchers, you will want to consider Biotechnology Calendar, Inc.'s schedule of upcoming lab product demonstration and research networking events:

Have you seen Science Market Update recently? This free, daily information resource provides statistics and news about the life sciences marketplace. These updates are written for the benefits of the following audiences.

Lab Suppliers and Researchers are invited to look to the Spotlight on Science Research Section to see more details on these upcoming meetings:

 (Zoeie Maddock, Intern at Biotech)

As a senior in high school, I have done my share of college searching. Going through pages and pages of applications and websites of beautiful schools, hoping that the best school will want me just as much as I want it. As an intern, researching here at Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. it is very apparent that the University of California, Berkeley would be ranked very high on just about any university statistic.

Originally founded in 1982, the University of Illinois, Chicago is now one of the top 200 research funded institutes in the world, and home to the largest medical school in the nation. UIC is proud to serve as the primary educational institute for the state's physicians, dentists, pharmacists and nurses. The university has been internationally recognized in many areas, including:

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine is helping to make New York a well-funded market for laboratory equipment sales, according to the latest NIH and NSF research funding statistics. In 2012, the NIH awarded Mount Sinai $178.7 million in research funding. The money will go towards many research projects across various departments at the university. We have compiled a list broken down the number of projects awarded money in certain well-funded life science disciplines and the total amount of funding for those projects. For a complete list of the departments receiving research funding at Mount Sinai, visit the NIH website.

Rockefeller University has a wealth of research funding available, making New York one of the best funded markets for laboratory equipment sales. According to recent NIH and NSF research funding statistics, the university was awarded at least $70.9 million in 2012. The NIH in particular awarded Rockefeller University $70.1 million in 2012. The money was distributed out to a number of research projects across a range of departments at the university. For the convenience of our readers, we have compiled a list broken down by the number of projects awarded research funding in some of the science research disciplines and the total amount of funding for those projects. For the full list of departments, number of awards and funding, please visit the NIH website.