A strong pipeline makes the Copenhagen Region biotech cluster well prepared for the challenges ahead. With 185 drug candidates in preclinical and clinical development, Denmark ranks third in Europe. Go to source

There are seven Member States (MS) commercially producing genetically-engineered (GE) crops, with Spain being, by far, the largest producer. Under the EU policy framework for agricultural biotechnology, MS policy varies greatly. Go to source

About 400 people are expected today and Friday at a biotechnology investor conference at The Breakers, where 40 companies from the Southeast hope to attract capital. Go to source

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc announced that the board of directors has decided to discontinue its previously announced plan to spin-off the biotechnology business into a separate public company. The company will continue to focus on the fundamentals of the business. Go to source

Biotechnology companies in the United States are raising less cash than they have in a decade, in part because of the global economic crisis. The reductions have led to bankruptcies and threaten development of drugs based on biomedical breakthroughs. Go to source

Organisation: IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
Summary: The Analytical Chemist is a technical specialist, an innovator of analytical techniques and methods, a supervisor of staff carrying out complex operations in the field of sample processing, and a planner of the use of staff and equipment, the procurement of new laboratory equipment and the introduction of new analytical procedures.

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Organisation: HPA - Health Protection Agency
Summary: This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest microbiology departments in United Kingdom. HPA is looking for the right individual to take on this permanent post, performing serological evaluation of meningococcal vaccines. Immunoassays include ELISA, bioassays and flow analysis.

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Organisation: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Summary: The successful candidate will support the selection and timely development of potential new medicines through close interactions with discovery therapeutic areas, and affiliated non-clinical and clinical development functions.

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Organisation: University of Paris-Sud
Summary: Interactions and Dynamics of Surface Geology (IDES) is a laboratory from the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of Paris-Sud 11. IDES is looking for a Ph.D. student to study the microstructures and molecular processes involved in the biomineralization of commercially-important bivalve larvae. These techniques will be employed to understand how future changes in the climate of coastal waters, caused by predicted increases in temperature and CO2, will affect the growth and development of shellfish larvae.

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Organisation: Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)
Summary: The objective of the CRG is to promote excellent basic research in biomedicine and, particularly, in the genomic and proteomic fields.

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