Construction crews on Civic Center Blvd. at the University of Pennsylvania have been very busy the past few years, and now Penn Med has an impressive research facility that is filling fast.
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In November of 2011 the new $145M Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building is set to open on the East Campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. LEED-certified, the building will be home to the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biology (CIMB), which formed in 2003 to foster multidisciplinary molecular biotechnology research at CU.
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Vice Chancellor for Research Joe G.N. Garcia had overall good news to announce in his Feb. 16, 2011 report on the state of research and funding at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The most promising statistic is that UIC has turned a corner with regard to sponsored research funding: for the first time in five years, funding increased, from $347M to $412M for the fiscal year ending in 2010. (The previous year had actually shown a decline.)
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On February 22, 2011, Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., gave her State of the School Address. Part 4 of that speech was devoted to Duke's "Commitment to Research Infrastructure." The full text of that section of the speech is available in the transcription below, or on the original video.
(Photo courtesy of Duke University)
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Radical building for a radical science.
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UCSB's Center for Energy Efficient Materials (CEEM) was launched in August 2009 with $19million in funding from the Dept. of Basic Energy Sciences, a branch of the DOE. CEEM's mission is to help solve some of the world's most pressing energy problems, drawing on UCSB's strength in materials science research.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was established in 2004 when Californians passed Prop 71, a statewide ballot measure allocating $3Billion to advance and support stem cell research at California universities and research institutions.
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UCLA Biomedical Research Funding: news update
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Finding quality sales leads a hair raising experience? Life science trade shows may be the answer!

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Another day in the trenches got you down?
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