Month: May 2014
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NYU Medical Center Starts Drug Discovery Partnership Program
1 May 2014. New York University’s Langone Medical Center unveiled an initiative to establish more partnerships with drug and biotechnology companies that move initial therapeutic targets into active drug development programs. NYU’s Office of Therapeutics Alliances, says the university, aims to fill the translation gap or “valley of death” between research performed by academic scientists…
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Cisco Venture Arm Backing Internet-of-Things Start-Ups
1 May 2014. Cisco Investments, the venture capital division of the network technologies company, is taking minority stakes in start-up companies and an accelerator that add Internet connectivity to everyday devices and products, known as Internet-of-Things. The company also plans to make $150 million in early-stage investments over the next two to three years on…