Posts Tagged ‘Food and Drug Administration’

Positron announces opening of new cGMP manufacturing facility in Indiana

Positron announces opening of new cGMP manufacturing facility in Indiana

Positron Corporation (OTCBB:POSC), a molecular imaging and solutions company specializing in Nuclear Cardiology and a leader in Cardiac PET, announced today the opening of a cGMP ready (current good manufacturing practices) facility in Indiana for the manufacturing of both radioactive... (Continue reading)

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Wacker Starts Up New Production Facility for Pharmaceutical Proteins

Wacker Starts Up New Production Facility for Pharmaceutical Proteins

acker Chemie AG officially opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins (biologics) in Jena today. The new plant is part of the Munich-based chemical company’s investment program to enlarge its biotech operations. The expansion enables WACKER to accommodate its... (Continue reading)

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Federal Grant Funds Production Of Stem Cells For Clinical Trials

Federal Grant Funds Production Of Stem Cells For Clinical Trials

The long struggle to move the most versatile stem cells from the laboratory to the clinic got another boost with an $8.8 million contract award to the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The facility, housed in the... (Continue reading)

Berkeley Lab Awarded $12.8 Million in Stimulus Funds for Health Research

Berkeley Lab Awarded $12.8 Million in Stimulus Funds for Health Research

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded $12.8 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research into cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, radioactive decontamination and a variety of other health conditions. The grants bring... (Continue reading)

Nanotech-enabled Consumer Products Top the 1,000 Mark

Nanotech-enabled Consumer Products Top the 1,000 Mark

Nanotech consumer products have now crossed the millennial threshold. Over 1,000 nanotechnology-enabled products have been made available to consumers around the world, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). The most recent update to the group’s three-and-a-half-year-old inventory reflects the... (Continue reading)

FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Industry on Drug Anticounterfeiting

FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Industry on Drug Anticounterfeiting

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a draft guidance on the use of inks, pigments, flavors, and other physical-chemical identifiers (PCIDs) by manufacturers to make drug products more difficult to duplicate by counterfeiters, and to make it easier... (Continue reading)