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SHANGHAI, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, today announced the winners of its third Life Science and Chemistry Awards, held on December 20, 2009, at the China World Hotel in Beijing. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040705/CNM002LOGO ) The theme of this year's awards was Biology in Drug...
Dean of Stevens' Schaefer School of Engineering & Science will serve two-year term HOBOKEN, N.J., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael S. Bruno, Dean of Stevens Institute of Technology's Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, has been appointed to the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) by the Secretary of the Navy, with the concurrence of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, effective January 2010. The NRAC is a body of 15 civilians pre-eminent in the fields...
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In his opening address at SCENTworld 2009, Harald H. Vogt, Founder of the Scent Marketing Institute in New York, announced that his organization has reached a close cooperation agreement with UNLV. The Institute will complement UNLV's academic resources with its commercial expertise and provide access to a global network of scent marketing professionals. According to Stuart H. Mann, Dean of UNLV's William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, "this is...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal and magnificent in eggplant-plum, a signature hue of the Fall 2009 season, Oprah Winfrey glided across the star-studded red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday evening, September 13, 2009, in a gown created by fashion designer Angela Dean, owner of DeanZign.com of Los Angeles. Although Ms. Dean's phone number is on speed-dial by some of the best-dressed women in the entertainment industry, DeanZign is one of Hollywood's...
First ever-activist toolkit included with an e-book using interactive iPhone technology. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Emeritus Howard Dean has once again found a new way to use technology to empower grassroots activism. Dean has teamed up with Vermont-based progressive publisher Chelsea Green to release his new book, HOWARD DEAN'S PRESCRIPTION FOR REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for...
Former Vermont Governor to sign new book on healthcare reform and discuss the latest developments in the reform debate BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Howard Dean will appear at Barbara's Bookstore his new book, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform (www.deanshealthcare.com). During his appearance Dean will make brief remarks regarding the latest in the healthcare reform debate and sign copies of his book. In the evening Dean will address the...
ST. LOUIS, July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is commentary by Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean of the School of Business & Technology at Webster University in St. Louis, MO.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090122/DC61721)Today, July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing and moonwalk. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did what many considered impossible, that man could reach the moon, land and walk on the moon. It was the ultimate stretch...
Former Vermont Governor to sign new book on healthcare reformBURLINGTON, Vt., July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Howard Dean will appear Barnes and Noble's Union Square location in New York City to sign his new book, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform (www.deanshealthcare.com). During his appearance Dean will make brief remarks regarding the latest in the healthcare reform debate and sign copies of his book. Dean has been traveling across the country helping to...
Oxygen Media executives unveiled plans in New York Wednesday to expand its popular Tori & Dean franchise. The network said it has ordered a fourth season of the Tori & Dean reality series, approved a pilot for a couples makeover show, and is developing a made-for-television movie -- all starring Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott. All of our programming initiatives and our decision to move forward with another night of originals underscore Oxygen's long-term strategy to...
Scientists have discovered that growing mouse skin cells in spheres can lead to generation of cells with properties of cancer stem cells, even without genetic manipulation of stem cell genes. This unexpected finding, published by Cell Press in the April 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, provides a potential pathway for generation of cancer stem cells from differentiated cells and may even eventually lead to safer strategies for creation of induced pluripotent stem cells for use in...
