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Tissueinformatics
Brings on New President & COO, Closes Funding Round with
Motorola and Private Investors
PITTSBURGH - February 14,
2001 Dennis Meteny, former President and CEO of Respironics,
has been named President & Chief Operating Officer of TissueInformatics.Inc,
a bioinformatics company providing tools to capture and analyze
tissue information. (more...)
Collaboration Between
Pittsburgh Regional Alliance and East of England Investment Agency
Results in Contract for Local Biotech Company Tissueinformatics
with Cambridge Antibody Technology
PITTSBURGH - January 17,
2001 A contract between local biotechnology company TissueInformatics
and Cambridge Antibody Technology is the first sign of
success for a partnership between the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance
(PRA) and an English counterpart, the East of England Investment
Agency (EEIA). (more...)
Tissueinformatics
Begins Study for Cambridge Antibody Technology to Automatically
Detect Antibody Binding
PITTSBURGH - January 17,
2001 TissueInformatics.Inc™ has begun a study
to develop a unique, high-throughput tool for automated antibody
screening for Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT). (more...)
Lab Rat: Designer
hearts
Red
Herring
If Peter Johnson gets his way, scientists will be able to design
a human heart, liver, or pair of lungs in much the same way engineers
design a car -- using computer-aided design. (more...)
Fork in the Road:
Firm finds life is what happens while it's making other plans
Post-Gazette Three-year-old
TissueInformatics catalogs and analyzes tissue for pharmaceutical
companies, hospitals and research institutions and provides those
organizations with the tools to do it themselves. (more...)
TissueInformatics
Launches Tissue Information Solution™ Built Upon New Quantf(x)™ Platform to Bring Speed and Reliability to Tissue
Analysis
PITTSBURGH - December 13,
2000 TissueInformatics.Inc™ is launching
its Tissue Information Solution™, the first process
to automatically capture, analyze and mine the vast data found
in human, animal and plant tissues. Tissue Information Solutions
help pharmaceutical, tissue engineering and other biotechnology
companies speed their research and product development by providing
quantitative tissue data faster and more accurately than currently
possible using any other analytical method. This new platform
for understanding disease and drug effects should help shorten
the amount of time it takes to bring new drugs and therapies
to patients. (more...)
Peter C. Johnson,
M.D. Inducted as President of Tissue Engineering Society International
PITTSBURGH - December 5,
2000 Peter C. Johnson, M.D., President & CEO of TissueInformatics.Inc,
was inducted as President of the Tissue Engineering Society International
(TESi) at last week's Third Biennial TESi Meeting in Orlando.
Dr. Johnson's two-year tenure is expected to broaden membership
in the society to include more global members from academia,
industry and other practitioners in tissue engineering, offering
greater opportunities for academic collaboration and industry
growth. (more...)
TissueInformatics
Adds Bioinformatics Expert MYRA WILLIAMS to its Board of Directors
PITTSBURGH - October 2,
2000 TissueInformatics.Inc™, a company
that provides a customizable Tissue Information System™
of content-rich databases comprised of tissue images and quantitative
analysis, announces that Myra Nicol Williams, Ph.D., has joined
its Board of Directors, (more...)
TissueInformatics.Inc™
Strengthens Position for Rapid Growth, Announces New Business
Development Leader, Informatics Specialist, Human Resources Director
PITTSBURGH - September 13,
2000 TissueInformatics.Inc™ is pleased
to announce the appointment of J. Mark Braughler, Ph.D., as Senior
Vice President of Business Development. Dr. Braughler brings
with him twenty-five years of experience in drug development
and the pharmaceutical industry, (more...)
David
Smith, Legal Expert in Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Issues,
Joins TissueInformatics as General Counsel
PITTSBURGH - June 13, 2000
David S. Smith, a leading legal authority on issues affecting
tissue engineering and biotechnology, has joined TissueInformatics.Inc™
as General Counsel. Mr. Smith's role includes managing the company's
protection of its intellectual property and providing business
and technology development consulting for clients of TissueInformatics'
consulting group, with an emphasis on medical product regulation
and issues of human tissue transfer. (more...)
Motorola
Invests in World's First Virtual Tissue Bank
Web-based
Technology Will Facilitate Drug Discovery and Tissue Engineering
(more...)
TissueInformatics.Inc™
CEO PETER JOHNSON named one of Small Business News'
"55 Leaders for the New Millennium"
Small
Business News Pittsburgh
has named TissueInformatics.Inc™ CEO Peter
C. Johnson, M.D., one of its "55 Leaders for the New Millennium".
(more...)
TissueInformatics
Scientists Published in Clinics in Plastic Surgery
Quarterly
international journal Clinics in Plastic Surgery has
published an article by TissueInformatics scientists
Patricia Petrosko; William A. LaFramboise, PhD; and Peter C.
Johnson, M.D. The article charts all work to date on muscle tissue
engineering. Please see "Muscle Tissue Engineering,"
Vol 26 No 4, pp. 647-656.
TissueInformatics
CEO Speaks at the National Institutes of Health in January
TissueInformatics.Inc™ CEO Peter C. Johnson, M.D., discussed
last month before the National Institutes of Health how market
forces can influence the development of medical implants. Dr.
Johnson delivered his talk, "Market Factors/Business Strategies
Including Global Networking" on Jan 10 at the NIH Technology
Assessment Conference on Improving Medical Implant Performance
Through Retrieval Information: Challenges and Opportunities,
Natcher Conference Center, NIH, Bethesda, Md. View
it online
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