Latest Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Stories
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth programs to the region's life sciences enterprises, issued this statement through its President and CEO, John W. Manzetti, congratulating PLSG Medical Advisor, Dr. Paul Kornblith on being named the 2013 Pennsylvania Bio Schoemaker Award recipient. Paul L. Kornblith, M.D., is Medical Advisor at...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh- based BIOSAFE, Inc. a supplier of a unique antimicrobial polymer technology, announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Gelest, Inc. of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, who is recognized worldwide as an innovator, manufacturer and supplier of silane, metal-organic and silicone materials. The deal includes a cash investment, along with certain manufacturing and support services. As part of the deal, Gelest,...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Seeds, an investment firm dedicated to achieving above market returns for investors through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, announced today that it has opened an office at the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to support the growing number of investments the firm has made in the city and state-wide in Pennsylvania. Since its first Pittsburgh investment in 2006 in Redpath Pathologies, a molecular diagnostics...
PITTSBURGH, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth programs to the region's life sciences enterprises, announced through its President and CEO, John W. Manzetti, the creation of the Bioengineering Innovation and Commercialization Program (BICP) that PLSG will lead in partnership with the Biomedical Engineering Society of the University of Pittsburgh. "We...
PITTSBURGH, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Peter M. DeComo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth services to the region's life sciences enterprises, today congratulated John W. Manzetti and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse for being named the 2011 Outstanding Leadership in Technology category winner at the 2011 Pennsylvania Technology...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth programs to the region's life sciences enterprises, issued this statement through its President and Chief Executive Officer, John W. Manzetti announcing the first close of the PLSG Accelerator Fund, LLC (Accelerator Fund) at $5 million. The Accelerator Fund is being managed by the PLSG to make venture...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth programs to the region's life sciences enterprises, issued this statement through its President and Chief Executive Officer, John W. Manzetti. The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG) is the recipient of a $500,000 Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant from Commonwealth of...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth services to the region's life sciences enterprises, today announced the approval of the nomination of Peter M. DeComo as the new Chairman of the Board of the PLSG, effective immediately. Mr. DeComo will replace Dr. D. Lansing Taylor who is stepping down after serving 3 years as...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the organization providing capital investments and customized company formation and business growth programs to western Pennsylvania's life sciences enterprises, and Innovation Works, one of the nation's most active investors in seed-stage technology companies, announced today they have invested $275,000 and $200,000 respectively in Intimate Bridge to Conception, Inc. (Ib2C(TM)). Ib2C(TM) was launched...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ReGear Life Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has become an approved provider of its FDA cleared ReBound(TM) Diathermy System to Life Care Centers of America (LCCA). ReBound(TM) is a noninvasive, non-pharmacologic therapeutic heating system that improves quality of life by accelerating the healing process and relieving pain associated with injury, aging and disease. Ease of use, portability, safety and the ability to induce therapeutic heating...
