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2012 News

May 2 Mirna Therapeutics Publishes Preclinical Data Demonstrating Therapeutic Effects of microRNA in Hematological Cancer
May 2 Texas is the Best State for Business.
May 1 Caisson Biotech Enters Into Development and License Agreement with Novo Nordisk
May 1 Annual Forbes ranking names Austin the Best City for Jobs.
April 26 Savara Pharmaceuticals' AeroVanc for Cystic Fibrosis Patients Achieves Positive Results in Phase I Clinical Trial
April 26 Luminex Corporation Receives CE Mark for Revolutionary Newborn Screening Platform
April 25 Bioo Scientific Introduces Optimized Directional RNA-Seq Kits with Innovative Bias Reducing Technology
April 24 Bioo Scientific Launches Transduction Reagents for Targeted Delivery into Neuronal and Myeloid Cells
April 24 Luminex Corporation Expands Life Science and Biodefense Groups
April 24 LDR Announces FDA Clearance and Launch of the ROI-C® Lordotic Cervical Cage
April 23 LDR Holding Appoints Robert E. McNamara Chief Financial Officer
April 23 Abbott and St. Jude Medical Broaden Alliance for Cardiovascular Products in the United States
April 23 Benchmark Research Austin wins Best Clinical Trial Site at 2012 ViE Awards
April 23 Quintiles Names Tom Pike CEO
April 21 Seton to pay up to $250 million for new hospital
April 19 St. David's HealthCare Hospitals Named to Nation's 100 Top Hospitals By Thomson Reuters
April 18 Lumeris Establishing Technology Innovation Center in Austin
April 12 [St. David's] Heart Hospital of Austin First in the United States to Use New, FDA-Approved Safire™ BLU™ Duo Ablation Catheter
April 12 Medical Experts Say, 'Replace UMC Brackenridge' [Seton Healthcare Family]
April 8 Bioo Scientific Launches HistaStrip™ Test Kit for Detection of Histamine in Seafood, Wine and Milk
April 5 New Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program Approved for Six Hospitals [Seton Healthcare Family]
April 5 Life Technologies Receives the First and Only PCR-based FDA Method Equivalency for Salmonella Enteritidis in Poultry Eggs and Environmental Samples
April 4 Data analytics driving medical breakthroughs [Seton Healthcare Family]
April 1 St. David's HealthCare Begins Construction at St. David's Emergency Center in Bastrop
March 30 Asuragen awarded $6.8 million commercialization award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
March 23 St. Jude Medical Announces Next-Generation PressureWire for FFR Measurement
March 22 FDA clears Asuragen’s RNARetain® Pre-analytical RNA Stabilization Device
March 22 Kinnser Software secures $39.9M
March 20 Chamber Magazine - March 2012
March 19 Life Technologies Launches GeneArt® Precision TALs
March 16 [University of Texas at Austin] $2.5 Million Awarded to Develop Better Heart Valve Treatment
March 14 Akela Pharma, Inc. Announces CEO Transition
March 8 Hospira Receives FDA Clearance for Symbiq(TM) 3.13 Infusion Pump
March 6 1st Detect Awarded EU Patent for Chemical Detection Technology
March 5 Bioo Scientific’s Newest ELISA Facilitates the Screening of Meat Samples for Colistin Contamination
March 1 Endo Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposal to Change Name of Parent Company and Rebrands Enterprise: Revealing an Innovative Corporate Structure Dedicated to Redefining Healthcare Value
February 29 Austin is 8th among the nation's 100 biggest metros for Economic Security afforded families.
February 23 Austin Emergency Medicine Residency Program Approved to Begin in July [Seton Family of Hospitals]
February 17 Asuragen launches miRInform® Pancreas Test for Use on Fine Needle Aspirate Specimens of Pancreatic Masses
February 14 Seton Heart Institute Opens First Fainting Clinic in Texas
February 10 Bioo Scientific’s New ELISAs Increase Speed and Sensitivity of Aflatoxin M1 Analysis in Milk
February 7 Only 13 of top 100 U.S. metros have bounced back from recession and Austin is ranks third for both total jobs added and rate of growth from 2006 to 2011.
February 1 Hanger unveils new brand identity; positions itself for future
February 1 Life Technologies appoints Asuragen as a Certified Service Provider for Ion Torrent’s Personal Genome Machine
January 31 Austin is No. 8 on Best Cities to Stay Young list based on 2012 report on the 50 largest metros by RealAge.
January 31 Life Technologies Names Alan Sachs as Head of Global Research and Development
January 31 Dr. Vladislav Yakovlev Joins Biomedical Engineering Dept; Named Optical Society Fellow [Texas A&M University]
January 30 Pishko Joins Faculty as Stewart & Stevenson Professor II [Texas A&M University]
January 26 1st Detect Announces the Delivery of Pre-Production Mini-Mass Spectrometers to Select Customers
January 24 FOCUS - January 24, 2012
January 24 Life Technologies Acquires UK-Based Matrix MicroScience; Cuts Food Pathogen Testing Workflow and Cost Per Sample by 50 Percent
January 23 Ascension Health Announces New Leadership [Seton Healthcare Family]
January 18 Austin ranks as the 11th best performing U.S. metro according to the Brookings Institution’s latest assessment of the performance of metropolitan economies.
January 17 Austin is one of the top 10 Healthiest Cities for Women.
January 16 St. David's HealthCare Named Among the Top 15 Health Systems in the Country by Thomson Reuters
January 13 Anton Hoffman of Texas A&M Receives 2011 Pfizer Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award
January 12 Austin is one of 10 Cities Where Real Estate is Ripe for a Rebound due to a robust labor market and only moderate price impacts from the recession.
January 11 Premier Research Names Susan Stansfield, PhD Executive VP, Clinical Development
January 11 Life Technologies Plant in Austin, Texas Named One of IndustryWeek's Top Ten Best Plants for 2011
January 10 Life Technologies Introduces the Benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer; Designed to Decode a Human Genome in One Day for $1,000
January 10 Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Daniel Webber as President and Chief Executive Officer
January 10 Ortho Kinematics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for KineGraphVMA System
January 5 [Bioo Scientific] NEXTflex™ Modules Lower the Cost of Next Generation Sequencing Sample Prep
January 4 Pioneer Surgical Announces First Human Use of nanOss Bioactive 3D
January 4 Bioo Scientific Simplifies the Analysis of Apoptotic Bodies with the D-Pop™ Kit
January 4 FDA Clears Apollo Endosurgery’s SuMO™ Endoscopic Tissue Access and Resection System

2011 News

December 27 FOCUS - December 27, 2011
December 23 Marina Biotech and Mirna Therapeutics Announce License Agreement for the Development of microRNA-based Therapeutics
December 19 Seton Healthcare Family Partners with Austin Regional Clinic to Provide Person-Centered Health Care for Central Texans
December 19 Vermillion Completes the Acquisition of Correlogic Systems' Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics Business
December 19 Seton CEO Taking Leave
December 15 Austin is 4th on 2011 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities Index ranking of the 200 largest U.S. metros based on how well they are creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth.
December 13 FOCUS - December 13, 2011
December 12 LDR Opens New and Expanded Global Headquarters in Austin, Texas
December 12 Altogen Labs Launches In Vivo siRNA Liposome Encapsulation Services
December 8 Austin Chamber Board Names Heidrick as New 2012 Chairman; Selects Little as Chairman-Elect
December 8 South by Southwest Leaders Honored as 2011 Austinites of the Year
December 8 Stellarray Receives NIH Contract to High Intensity X-ray Sources
December 8 St. David’s Foundation Supports Health Care for the Underserved at the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin
December 6 New Round of Cancer Research Grants Attracts Rising Young Researcher to The University of Texas at Austin Faculty
December 5 Seton Announces New Leadership for Clinical Innovation Center
December 5 The Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman Complete Acquisition of PPD
November 29 St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Approval of Industry's First Quadripolar Pacing System
November 18 St. Jude Medical Study Results Confirm Benefit of Treating Patients Suffering from Severe Depression with Deep Brain Stimulation
November 17 GeneArt® Algae Engineering Kits by Life Technologies
November 16 Hospira Announces U.S. Launch of Imipenem-Cilastatin for Injection, I.V.
November 10 Zimmer Announces Acquisition of XtraFix® External Fixation System
November 9 Mystic Pharmaceuticals Receives U.S. Patent for Innovative Unit
November 8 Austin medical device firm Inova Labs raises $17.5 million to expand sales, find new markets
November 3 [Asuragen] Results of a Multi-center Study Show microRNA-based Pancreatic Cancer Assay Improves the Diagnostic Accuracy of FNA Cytology
November 3 Zimmer Introduces inViZia™ Anterior Cervical Plate System at NASS Annual Meeting
November 3 Vermillion Receives Notice of Allowance for 5th Biomarker Patent Related to Peripheral Artery Disease
November 1 Seton Donates $50,000 to Ending Community Homelessness Coalition
November 1 LDR Announces FDA Clearance of the ROI-A® Oblique ALIF Cage
November 1 Bioo Scientific Launched the NEXTflex™ ChIP-Seq Kit for Improved Genome Wide Analysis of DNA-Protein Interactions
October 31 Asuragen Launches BCR-ABL1 Calibrator Panels for IS Standardization
October 27 Asuragen Announces Launch of Xpansion Interpreter, a Test for AGG Mapping of the Fragile X Gene, in its CAP Accredited CLIA Laborator
October 26 St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Clearance of First and Only Combined FFR and OCT System
October 20 Engineering Faculty Recognized by AIChE with Prestigious Teaching and Research Awards [University of Texas at Austin]
October 19 Luminex Corporation Receives Deloitte Technology Fast 500(TM) Award
October 18 Genprex Announces New Patent Issuance in Japan
October 17 Professor Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies [University of Texas at Austin]
October 17 St. Jude Medical Announces First Use of Renal Denervation Technology
October 14 Texas A&M System researchers sought for Agent Orange remediation
October 12 Life Technologies Announces Flagship PCR Instrument that Enables Cost-Effective, High-Throughput Screening Applications
October 12 Ion Torrent Cancer Panel Finds Mutations in One Day [Life Technologies]
October 12 NIH grant to fuel research into blood pressure regulators [Texas State University]
October 10 St. Jude Medical Advances Its Remote Patient Monitoring System with Mobile Notifications
October 5 Luminex Corporation Joins Forces with the National Marrow Donor Program - Be The Match®
October 3 Vermillion Announces Positive Top-Line Data from Intended Use Study for Peripheral Artery Disease
September 1 Texas named Most Favorable Business Climate among the 50 states in annual survey of corporate site selection professionals.
We chose to locate in Austin because of a high quality of life, moderate living costs and a strong entrepreneurial climate. You want a place that has a good labor pool. And it was important to have a place where people want to live.
David Booth, CEO, Dimensional Fund Advisors

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