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Monday, December 21, 2009

New Hamner-UNC Center for Drug Safety Sciences

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appear they are establishing a collective Center for Drug Safety Sciences that will be led by Dr. Paul Watkins, one of the world’s arch experts in drug-induced alarmist injury. As founding administrator for this avant-garde new analysis center, Watkins will advance new drug-safety initiatives with bookish partners, the bio/pharmaceutical industry, the National Institutes of Health and FDA. He will absorb his position as the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Center for Drug Safety Sciences is a different accord amid The Hamner Institutes, a clandestine nonprofit translational-research alignment in Research Triangle Park, and the School of Medicine and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Hamner Institutes and the University accept committed to absorb at atomic $10 actor over the next three years to barrage the centermost and its analysis and training programs. A new 14,000 square-foot, advanced analysis class that will accessible in aboriginal 2009 at the Hamner Institutes is included in the allotment commitments, alternating with several new collective adroitness accessories from the schools of anesthetic and pharmacy at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Center for Drug Safety Sciences is the aboriginal action consistent from a announcement of compassionate that The Hamner Institutes and the University active on April 18, 2008. This acceding was accustomed to adviser avant-garde collaborations in translational analysis and to accommodate new opportunities for The Hamner Institutes to plan with the university’s Office of Technology Development and Kenan-Flagler Business School on business-development and scientific-entrepreneurship projects.

Related Links:
www.thehamner.org
www.unc.med.edu
www.unc.pharmacy.edu

Quotes:
“The Center for Drug Safety Sciences positions North Carolina to be a arch force in biologic safety,” said Dr. William Greenlee, admiral and CEO of The Hamner Institutes. “This affiliation with one of the world’s arch biomedical analysis universities will accompany calm academe, the bio/pharma industry, and government to advanced the analysis and development of new and safer medicines.”

“For abounding people, activity depends on safe, able drugs,” said Dr. Holden Thorp, adjudicator of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “With The Hamner Institutes and our added collaborators, we will use research-based advice to enhance biologic assurance and advance animal health. I can’t brainstorm anyone added able to advance this basic accomplishment than Paul Watkins.”

“Understanding why acceptable drugs are bad for some humans has become a civic analysis priority,” said Dr. Paul Watkins, Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Drug Safety Sciences (CDSS). “I am acutely aflame about the befalling to capitalize on the different assets and ability at UNC-Chapel Hill and The Hamner Institutes. The CDSS positions North Carolina to be a all-around baton in biologic safety.”

About the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences:
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences is strategically amid on a 56-acre campus in the affection of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. As a cross-disciplinary nonprofit organization, The Hamner Institutes acts as a agitator to facilitate technology development a allotment of North Carolina universities, while confined as a aperture to authorize analysis collaborations with the bio/pharmaceutical industry and countries in Europe and Asia. The Hamner Institutes aswell has an Accelerator to abutment arising companies and a new Institute for Translational Medicine to enhance its analysis in oncology, diabetes, and respiratory diseases. For added information, appointment www.thehamner.org or alarm (919) 558-1200.

About the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s aboriginal accessible university, is a baton in American college apprenticeship and accepted about the apple for avant-garde teaching, analysis and accessible service. Now in its third century, Carolina offers 76 bachelor’s, 108 master’s, 74 doctorate and four able amount programs. This fall, the University enrolled added than 28,000 acceptance who are accomplished by a 3,200-member faculty. Every day, faculty, agents and acceptance appearance their teaching, analysis and accessible account priorities to accommodated North Carolina’s a lot of acute needs in every arena and all 100 counties.

Hamner Institutes Media Contact:
Ryal Curtis
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
ryal@mmimarketing.com

UNC News Services Contact:
Mike McFarland
(919) 962-8593
mike_mcfarland@unc.edu

The Hamner Institutes For Health Sciences Launches Twitter Page

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has appear the official barrage of its Twitter page (www.twitter.com/thehamner). The nonprofit analysis alignment will use the anniversary to address account and happenings, appoint the accurate and bounded communities, and allotment analysis on actinic and biologic assurance sciences and a amount of accompanying fields.

QUOTES:
“Twitter is an accomplished archetype of how our ability of advice has evolved, and we accustomed this as an befalling to allotment our accurate allegation in a new way,” said Dr. William Greenlee, President and CEO of The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences. “We attending advanced to highlighting online the analysis that is accident at The Hamner and interacting with our peers.”

NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
The Hamner’s Twitter page
www.twitter.com/thehamner

YouTube blow – Hamner-China Medical City signing celebration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFO2crFf6Ac

Hamner Video blow – Dr. Greenlee presentation at U.S. Chamber’s “China Business Forum” http://www.thehamner.org/images/news-and-events/Hamner-China_Panel_WMV_V9.wmv

DETAILS:
- The Twitter page is accepting appear in allocation with North Carolina’s business development appointment cruise to Asia. Hamner admiral will accompany the delegation, led by Gov. Bev Perdue and N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco, appointed for Oct. 14-27.

- The appointment will accommodated with trading ally and application affairs in China and Japan, North Carolina’s second- and fourth-largest trading partners.

- The Hamner, which appear the barrage of its affiliation with China Medical City for the Hamner-China Medical City Institute for International Drug Development in May, will accordingly authority life-science business seminars in Beijing and Shanghai with the accompaniment Department of Commerce.

- Started as a ancillary activity in March of 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) has developed into a real-time abbreviate messaging account that works over assorted networks and devices.

- Several key activity sciences and bread-and-butter development organizations in the Triangle advance breath Twitter accounts, including the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.twitter.com/CEDNC), Quintiles (www.twitter.com/quintiles) and Wake County Economic Development (www.twitter.com/KenAtkins), a allotment of others.

ABOUT THE HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES:
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences is a nonprofit analysis alignment strategically amid on a 56-acre campus in the affection of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. For 35 years, scientists at The Hamner accept conducted capital analysis in ecology bloom sciences and actinic accident assessment. Built aloft an chip systems-biology platform, The Hamner has broadened its mission to cover translational analysis in biopharmaceutical safety, metabolic disorders, and oncology. The website aswell includes an Accelerator, which houses arising companies and provides opportunities to advance collaborative analysis and educational programs with academia, industry, and government. The Hamner archetypal for translational analysis and technology development integrates avant-garde science with business development while capitalizing on bookish and industry partnerships. The Hamner supports the analysis of new, safer drugs and accumulation of new companies, which leads to research-based accessible bloom action and added bread-and-butter development. For added information, appointment www.thehamner.org or alarm (919) 558-1200.

Ryal Curtis
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
ryal@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com

The Hamner Institutes For Health Sciences Release Podcast On Future Of Bioscience Industry In China

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has appear the absolution of a podcast that reviews the atomic advance of China’s bioscience industry and discusses how an absolute analysis convention in Research Triangle Park has accustomed new collaborations with Chinese ally such as China Medical City and the Shanghai Center for Disease Control. In the podcast, Chief Business Officer Rick Williams provides an beholder perspective—based on four all-encompassing trips to China in the accomplished year—that addresses China’s accurate heritage, an overview of its science esplanade strategy, and the accent of architecture win-win partnerships.

The podcast is accessible for download on The Hamner web website at: http://www.thehamner.org/news-and-events/hamner-in-the-news.html.

Dr. William Greenlee, Chief Executive Officer of The Hamner, and Williams afresh completed three weeks of accurate and business development affairs in China, which included accompanying Governor Bev Perdue’s bread-and-butter appointment to accommodated with chief admiral in the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology. They aswell conducted North Carolina bioscience seminars in Beijing and Shanghai that showcased some of North Carolina’s new cutting-edge technologies and partnerships in business and science. Speakers from China, as able-bodied as the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, University of North Carolina’s Center for Gene Therapy, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Syngenta, alternate in the seminars. Governor Perdue provided aperture comments in which she accent the accent of creating new opportunities for North Carolina and China to plan together.

QUOTES:
“Leaders in China’s science parks, companies, and government agencies are actual absorbed in the new “dual gateway” bioscience archetypal we accept been developing at The Hamner to body a stronger arch of abstruse addition amid North Carolina and China,” said Williams. “This podcast is the aboriginal in a alternation about China that describes how translational analysis and ambitious business collaborations can enhance bread-and-butter development and job opportunities.”

NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
The Hamner’s Twitter page
www.twitter.com/thehamner

Column by Rick Williams for WRAL’s Local Tech Wire – “China: The world’s next bioscience frontier” http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/6240024/

YouTube blow – Hamner-China Medical City signing celebration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFO2crFf6Ac

Hamner Video blow – Dr. Greenlee presentation at U.S. Chamber’s “China Business Forum” http://www.thehamner.org/images/news-and-events/Hamner-China_Panel_WMV_V9.wmv

DETAILS:
- During the aboriginal appearance of The Hamner’s acceding with China Medical City, the Institute for International Drug Development will be accustomed at The Hamner’s campus in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina, and will focus on preclinical biologic development and acquiescence with FDA authoritative standards. After the ally validate analysis capabilities and new technologies at The Hamner campus, they will alteration them to China Medical City, a new activity science esplanade amid in the Yangtze River Delta arctic of Shanghai.

ABOUT THE HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES:
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences is a nonprofit analysis alignment strategically amid on a 56-acre campus in the affection of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. For 35 years, scientists at The Hamner accept conducted capital analysis in ecology bloom sciences and actinic accident assessment. Built aloft an chip systems-biology platform, The Hamner has broadened its mission to cover translational analysis in biopharmaceutical safety, metabolic disorders, and oncology. The website aswell includes an Accelerator, which houses arising companies and provides opportunities to advance collaborative analysis and educational programs with academia, industry, and government. The Hamner archetypal for translational analysis and technology development integrates avant-garde science with business development while capitalizing on bookish and industry partnerships. The Hamner supports the analysis of new, safer drugs and accumulation of new companies, which leads to research-based accessible bloom action and added bread-and-butter development. For added information, appointment www.thehamner.org or alarm (919) 558-1200.

Ryal Curtis
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
ryal@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com