ATLANTA, GA — Each year Georgia Bio (GaBio) recognizes individuals, companies or institutions for significant contributions to Georgia’s life sciences industry with its Georgia Bio Community Awards. The 2008 winners are Georgia State Representative Charlice Byrd; Carl V. Patton, Ph.D., Georgia State University President (GSU); Margaret Offermann, M.D., Ph.D., American Cancer Society Deputy National Vice President for Research; and Southeast Bio. The awards were presented at GaBio’s Annual Awards Dinner Thursday evening with more than 400 life sciences professionals in attendance. (more…)
ATLANTA– Southeast BIO (SEBIO) named four winners of the First Annual SEBIO Awards in a ceremony held at its Ninth Annual Investor Forum in Pinehurst, NC earlier this month. (more…)
By Allan Maurer, Tech Journal South
GAINSVILLE, FL—Transgeneron Therapeutics, winner of the Southeast BIO investor forum early-stage shootout competition in early November, is developing a “master switch” protein that reverses diabetes in mice and may do the same in humans. (more…)
By Allan Maurer, Tech Journal South
Atlanta, GA—Visioneering, which developed a patented, FDA-approved technology for presbyopia, the aging eye’s loss of the ability to read or focus close-up, says its presentation at SEBIO’s investor forum early in November stirred up serious investor interest. (more…)
TechJournal South selected 25 of most influential people in the Southeast technology and entrepreneurial space from nominations by venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, and tech related organizations in its Nov. print edition. We’ll be running a selection of them daily for the next few weeks. Today: Rebecca Kaufman, chair of SEBIO, and attorney with King & Spalding in Atlanta.
Rebecca Kaufman combines legal and biotech expertise
By Allan Maurer, Tech Journal South
ATLANTA, GA—Rebecca Kaufman recalls working as a college intern as a researcher at the National Cancer Institute when Robert Gallo, the U.S. discoverer of the AIDS virus got into a fight with a French researcher over patent rights to HIV. Kaufman, a counsel with King & Spalding’s Intellectual Practice Group in Atlanta and chairman of SEBIO, says, “I found the patent battle so much more interesting than what I was doing at the bench as a researcher.” (more…)
By Stephanie D. Adams
In the mid 1970’s, the Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner, provided a fantasy account of a woman badly injured in a parachute accident who is reconstructed using bionic implants. Recently relaunched by NBC, the new Bionic Woman enters a very different landscape, where repair and replacement of damaged, diseased or aging body parts is no longer science fiction. (more…)
By Rebecca J. Kaufman (as published in Tech Journal South)
Investment in medical device companies continues to drive record venture capital investment in the life sciences sector nationally. (more…)
By Daniel Barchi
Despite the Duell’s prediction, entrepreneurs in the Southeast continue to invent healthcare technology. Unfortunately, invention is often the easiest part - the subsequent challenge is to develop, test, produce, and market the technology. Inventors are often pointed towards a university patent office or business incubator for assistance. While both are helpful, they tend to limit their focus to IP protection or space and administrative services. (more…)
By Rebecca J. Kaufman
The promise of stem cell technology has generated more than a few headlines. So too have the politics of stem cells, namely human embryonic stem cells (hESC). As recently as last week, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have authorized expanded federal support for hESC research, citing moral issues. In the absence of new legislation, federal funding is limited to research on hESC lines derived before August 9, 2001; which many researchers have argued are inadequate. (more…)
by Stephanie Adams
Executive Director, Southeast BIO
Large and impressive displays by Southeastern states at last week’s BIO International Convention in Boston are evidence of the importance of the biotech industry to the economic growth of the individual states and the region as a whole. (more…)
