News

9/2/2010 - Small Grand Rapids startup produces low-cost biologic reagents for DNA research

8/23/2010 - New VC fund has life science, tech focus

8/17/2010 - Grand Rapids company Intervention Insights centered on personalized medicine

8/10/2010 - Test scandal widens Sequenom loss, but revenue is up

8/5/2010 - Mothers of Inventions: the Maker Movement Thrives in Metro Grand Rapids

7/30/2010 - $1 Billion Tax Credit to Support Biomedical Research By Small Firms

7/29/2010 - Keystone: Building a better surgical tool

7/29/2010 - Bridging the continental divide

7/22/2010 - Kalamazoo engineering and manufacturing company launches new medical-device venture

7/12/2010 - Action Fabricators Expands its Footprint in the Healthcare Industry With the Launch of Laminin Medical Products

7/12/2010 - FDA Commissioner Hamburg Meets with Michigan Bio-Industry Leaders; Hears Perspectives on Regulatory Oversight Impacting Their Business Sectors

7/9/2010 - Becoming a leader: Michigan institutes rate well as places for researchers to work

7/7/2010 - Action Fabricators Launches Laminin Medical Products

6/30/2010 - Magnum Engineering announced as finalist for Innovation Michigan Award

6/30/2010 - MichBio to Host FDA Commissioner - your input is needed!

6/29/2010 - Flexible innovations for healthcare packages earn industry recognition

6/29/2010 - Perrigo says it has exclusive rights to sell over-the-counter versions of seasonal allergy products Allegra and Allegra D-12

6/28/2010 - Spring 2010 Newsletter

6/25/2010 - Southwest Michigan First launches program to commercialize medical device technology in Kalamazoo

6/25/2010 - Monteris Medical ramping up sales of brain surgery device; company could create 100 Kalamazoo jobs

6/22/2010 - Action Fabricators Launches Laminin Medical Products

6/21/2010 - VARI-TGen alliance yields cancer find

6/10/2010 - Cornerstone professor Nigel Crompton creates test to help cancer patients

6/8/2010 - GVSU launches entrepreneurship resource website

6/4/2010 - Michigan venture capital report shows progress

5/24/2010 - Grand Rapids Researchers Take Part in International Coalition to Speed and Improve Research on Kidney Disease

5/17/2010 - DornerWorks among the 12th Annual ICIC and Bloomberg BusinessWeek Inner City 100 Winners

5/3/2010 - Stimulating Science

5/3/2010 - RealBio: startup sees growth

4/30/2010 - Quest for the game changer

4/30/2010 - VAI researchers take on prostate cancer

4/28/2010 - Kalamazoo industry heavyweights weigh in

4/26/2010 - Grubb & Ellis|Paramount Commerce changes to Colliers International

4/26/2010 - Metro Health, MPI Research join consortium for clinical trials

4/26/2010 - Panacea Purveyor

4/24/2010 - Column: Time is now for West Michigan business leaders to push for change in Lansing

4/23/2010 - $2.3 million grant could boost cancer care at Saint Mary's Health Care

4/19/2010 - GR Business Journal "Medical Device Tax 'a deterrent'"

4/14/2010 - Alliant Healthcare Products acquires Surge Medical Solutions

4/7/2010 - Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour Attracts More than 300 Students to Half-Day Workshop

4/1/2010 - New Saint Mary's unit could boost drug trials in GR

4/1/2010 - DornerWorks - One of Michigan's 50 Companies to Watch.

4/1/2010 - The Initiative Thanks its Outstanding Network of Entrepreneurs

3/10/2010 - MichBio Announces Annual Business Keynote and Workshop

3/2/2010 - GVSU names Chamberlain executive director of new Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

3/1/2010 - Perrigo Acquires Australia's Leading OTC Store Brand Supplier

3/1/2010 - Linda Chamberlain, Executive Director of WMSTI, to be honored at "The 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan" event

3/1/2010 - Go-go Gadgets

3/1/2010 - Pfizer's generic move

2/17/2010 - Sequenom Announces Launch of SensiGene Fetal(XY) (Fetal Sex Determination) Test

2/14/2010 - Southwest Michigan First Portfolio Firm Gets Further Funding

2/9/2010 - Sequenom Licenses Worldwide Rights to Develop Age-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostic Test

2/4/2010 - Sequenom Announces Launch of SensiGene Fetal RHD Genotyping Test

2/1/2010 - Raising GVSU's research bar test

1/21/2010 - Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship shows Michigan returning to 'entrepreneurial roots'

1/18/2010 - Stem cell opportunities are multiplying throughout the state

1/18/2010 - INRAD introducing three new medical devices

1/18/2010 - Stem cell research ramps up

1/18/2010 - Breakthrough of the Year: The Runners-Up

1/13/2010 - Van Andel Institute scientists discover new gene mutations linked with kidney cancer

1/13/2010 - Van Andel Institute plant research named among Science Magazine's Top 10 breakthroughs of 2009

1/6/2010 - West Michigan medical device consortium grew its ranks in '09, looks to expand boundaries

12/28/2009 - LumenFlow counts on medical device status

12/28/2009 - Where medicine, manufacturing meet to expand area commerce

12/21/2009 - LumenFlow Receives Patent for 360 Degree View Imaging System

12/21/2009 - Education Will Drive Life Science Success

12/21/2009 - Culture of Entrepreneurship Gives Us Reasons for Optimism

12/21/2009 - What's In Store for Small Business in 2010?

12/17/2009 - GVSU raises entrepreneur support

12/16/2009 - Ann Arbor's NanoBio Corp. signs licensing agreement with GlaxoSmithKline

12/16/2009 - Momentum Now Accepting Applications for 2010

12/10/2009 - Mentoring business: Entrepreneurs start incubators to mentor others

12/7/2009 - Witness to transition from smokestacks to clean energy

12/7/2009 - SCMM tabs Chicagoland Transporter/shipper

12/7/2009 - VAI addition opens for scientific research

12/4/2009 - State looks at new fund to groom venture capitalists

12/3/2009 - Super plants? Van Andel Research Institute discovery could produce crops resistant to cold, drought, other damage

12/1/2009 - Van Andel Set to Open Expanded Facility, Triple Staff

11/23/2009 - All Locked Up

11/23/2009 - Sequenom secures IP amid legal charges

11/18/2009 - Keystone Manufacturing Earns International Quality Management Certification

11/17/2009 - It's Global Entrepreneur Week Across Michigan

11/16/2009 - Flurry of concerns ahead for Sequenom

11/15/2009 - THE STUDY OF SCIENCE

11/15/2009 - Perrigo reports record earnings

11/9/2009 - Bone brothers

11/9/2009 - Rewriting the drug development model

11/9/2009 - MSU nets elite Parkinson's research grant for G

11/9/2009 - Gang Green

11/5/2009 - MichBio panelists: Breaking into medical device field has advantages and pitfalls for manufacturers

11/4/2009 - MichBio Expo attendees get sneak peek at hot new technologies

11/4/2009 - Inventor Robert Fischell urges perseverance in innovators

11/4/2009 - HandyLab Inc. sale may signal that life science companies are good investment

11/2/2009 - MichBio Expo displays life sciences

10/30/2009 - Federal grant allows ground-breaking research of breast cancer surgery

1/4/2009 - Grand Rapids Looks to Diversify into Health Care, Life Sciences

6/28/2007 - Medical device manufacturers in West Michigan join forces to promote their expertise

6/21/2007 - Health Hill's children's hospital boosts plans by $60M

6/21/2007 - Be more like GR, Boston writer says

6/21/2007 - Praxis is Changing the Economic Trend in West Michigan

6/18/2007 - WZZM 13 Launches Healthy You!

6/18/2007 - New Soy Products being developed in West Michigan

6/13/2007 - Center for Molecular Medicine First Midwest-Based Lab Offering

6/12/2007 - New tenant at the Innovation Center

6/2/2007 - Bioscience center gets $100,000

5/31/2007 - GR firm opens city's first professional podcast studio

5/31/2007 - 21st Century Jobs Fund Spared in Compromise

5/3/2007 - RG TV Life Science Starters

5/1/2007 - 2007 Tech Tour

4/26/2007 - WMSTI leverages over $23M for life sciences start-ups, pursues patents

4/26/2007 - MI farmers produce 12M lbs of soy flour for innovative GR food maker

4/21/2007 - Be more like GR, Boston writer says

4/12/2007 - GR's Soy Ultima predicts first year sales of $7M

4/5/2007 - Rich Cook joins WMSTI as Venture Center Director

3/30/2007 - Chamberlain Named Interim Director of WMSTI

2/21/2007 - Life Science bright spot in Michigan economy

2/19/2007 - The West Michigan Public Relations Society of America announced its new board of directors

2/6/2007 - Regions role in life sciences to be examined

1/18/2007 - WMSTI Shows Initiative in 2007 Life Science Business Showcase

1/17/2007 - WMSTI leads effort to make Grand Rapids a biotech center

12/15/2006 - Kalamazoo companies land investments from capital fund

10/3/2006 - GVSU & VAI co-host MichBio Student Career Day

8/23/2006 - NSF Funds Innovative Prosthetics Company

7/19/2006 - New Partnership to Create Innovative Clinical Research Infrastructure in West Michigan

5/18/2006 - WMSTI Holds Product Development Seminar

5/5/2006 - GREAT LAKES 2007 CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION WILL

2/27/2006 - Innovative software eases informed consent

1/10/2006 - WMSTI hosts Life Science Business Showcase 2006

1/12/2005 - Sordal and the West Michigan Science & Technology Initiative announce graduation from Grand Rapids Product Development Center.