From Classroom to Commercial Laboratory: Student Program Aids Development, Manufacture and Marketing of Biotechnology Products.One-year Anniversary of Charger CHARGER, Scotch law. He in whose favor a decree suspended is pronounced; vet a decree may be suspended before a charge is given on it. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 7. Product Program Yields Commercial Availability of Transfection trans·fec·tion n. Infection of a bacterium or cell with DNA or RNA isolated from a bacteriophage or from an animal or a plant virus, resulting in replication of the complete virus. Reagent reagent /re·a·gent/ (re-a´jent) a substance used to produce a chemical reaction so as to detect, measure, produce, etc., other substances. re·a·gent n. Product HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Open Biosystems, Inc., focused on the commercialization of leading-edge life science research tools for drug discovery, today announced the launch of the Leopard Transfection Arraye kit, developed by University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. Huntsville (UAH UAH In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Ukraine Hryvnia. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) graduate students participating in the Charger Products Graduate Assistantship as·sis·tant·ship n. An academic position that carries a stipend and usually involves part-time teaching or research, given to a qualified graduate student. program. The Charger Products program provides a unique opportunity for graduate students to perform hands-on research focused on product development in a commercial laboratory setting. Created through a partnership with Open Biosystems, UAH and the Partnership for Biotechnology Research (PBR PBR Pre-Budget Report PBR Pabst Blue Ribbon PBR Policy Based Routing PBR Payment by Results (UK hospital funding) PBR Permit by Rule PBR Plant Breeder's Rights PBR Performance Based Ratemaking PBR Partition Boot Record ), the program serves as an alternative to the traditional positions as a graduate teaching or research assistant, and provides graduate students with the chance to develop an actual product for the biotech marketplace. All revenues from the products will feed back into the program to support existing and new assistantships. Developed by the first two students to join the program, the Leopard Transfection Array is a first of its kind solution for hard to transfect cell lines. The array contains several unique transfection reagent possibilities and enables customization of a transfection reagent for particular cell lines. Charger ProducteIUs second student product, a cancer cell line array for use in identifying or validating cancer biomarkers, is currently in development. "The Charger Products program provides students with the opportunity to transfer classroom knowledge to a commercial laboratory, giving them unparalleled research experience in the complete product development life cycle," said Bob Zahorchak, Ph.D., adjunct faculty member at the University of Alabama Huntsville and mentor for the Charger Products program. "As a result, these students have a distinct advantage as they complete advanced degrees and enter into the biotechnology sector seeking employment." "Much like Open Biosystems, which was founded on the premise of the need for open access to information and resources, the Charger Products program provides graduate students with the tools, technology and guidance necessary to develop products and perfect skills that simply cannot be taught in the classroom," said Troy Moore, chief technical officer of Open Biosystems. "As a company, we are dedicated to nurturing and retaining young scientists and the Charger Products program encapsulates the essence of PBReIUs mission to provide students with first-hand opportunities to work at local companies and helps Huntsville retain top biotech talent to further the areaeIUs position as a hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which for biotech research." As it enters its second year, Open BiosystemseIU Charger Products program has identified three new potential products for students to develop and is currently selecting new graduate assistants to participate in the program. For more information, please visit: www.alpbr.org. About Open Biosystems Open Biosystems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets genomic research tools to scientists and researchers in corporate, academic and government laboratories. These research tools provide investigators with standardized high-quality genes, RNAi and antibodies for interrogating gene function in relation to oncology, neuroscience neu·ro·sci·ence n. Any of the sciences, such as neuroanatomy and neurobiology, that deal with the nervous system. neuroscience the embryology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of the nervous system. and metabolic disorders. Founded in 2001, Open Biosystems is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 168,132 residents (2006 estimate). . For more information and details for ordering, please visit: www.openbiosystems.com. |
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