Calgary, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Resverlogix Corp. ("Resverlogix" or the "Company") announces that Mr. Kenneth Zuerblis has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors. Recently Mr. Zuerblis served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of ImClone Systems Inc., prior to its acquisition by Eli Lilly. "I was initially attracted to Resverlogix because of RVX-208, its novel atherosclerosis ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - Political representatives and business leaders today provided a glimpse into the role that innovation and energy technologies will play in the economic recovery and environmental protection in Europe. The roundtable at the European Parliament in Brussels was sponsored by Dow Corning and co-hosted by Members of the European Parliament ...
World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Women are still significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in news media coverage, according to Global Media Monitoring Project research in 108 countries coordinated by the World Association for Christian Communication, despite significant change since the project began 15 years ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Oberthur Technologies, a leading innovator in the fields of payment cards, SIM cards and related services, now offers issuers a range of design services. The Smart Design suite of services provides card issuers with a quick and easy way to achieve unique card designs that are guaranteed to work well within the production process. With more than 30 years' collective experience of designing ...
MTVNI Corporate Communications
LONDON and NEW YORK and WARSAW, Poland, September 23, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) -- MTV Networks International (MTVNI), owned by Viacom Inc. , today announced plans to significantly expand the company's high definition services across brands through next year with the launch of new channels and programming. The ...
London and San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - AstraZeneca's new oral syk inhibitor, fostamatinib (R788), recently in-licensed from Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , significantly improved outcomes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who responded inadequately to ongoing treatment with methotrexate (MTX), ...
Geneva/New York City, N.Y (ots) - WISeKey and Microsoft cooperate to empower Biscay Citizens by transforming local government services WISeKey, a leading IT security company, and Microsoft, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting that they had successfully worked with the Biscay government to launch a next-generation citizen services ...
BIXI - PUBLIC BIKE SYSTEM COMPANY
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Following a successful pilot project in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, and the triumphant rollout in the English capital of London, BIXI is now rolling, as of 10:15 this morning, in the streets of the American capital of Washington (D.C.). In fact, the Public Bike System Company provides the city of Washington and its neighbour, the ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Sanofi-aventis announced today results of two studies presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 46th Annual Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The first pooled analysis using patient-level data from randomized clinical trials demonstrated that adding ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Sanofi-aventis announced today the first Phase III results of the GetGoal clinical trial program assessing the efficacy and safety of lixisenatide, a once-daily GLP-1 receptor agonist, as monotherapy in patients with type 2 diabetes. These results were presented at the ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca
Stockholm (ots/PRNewswire) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (http://www.bms.com) and AstraZeneca (http://www.astrazeneca-us.com) today announced results from a randomized, double blind Phase 3 clinical study, which demonstrated that the addition of the investigational drug dapagliflozin to existing glimepiride ...
MTVNI Corporate Communications
London (ots/PRNewswire) - MTV Networks International (MTVNI), owned by Viacom Inc today reveals this year's nominations for the 2010 EMAs, MTV's annual celebration of contemporary music and youth culture. Set to take place at Caja Magica in Madrid, the 17th annual EMAs will broadcast live on MTV channels across ...
Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - - Based on Saxo Bank's long term strategy to strengthen and develop the Bank with new platforms and new products, Saxo Bank expects to invest 59 million DKK in Brorup Sparekasse. - Saxo Bank stands ready to offer at least 150 million DKK more in ...
Calgary, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Wmode(R), a leading managed-services provider of mobile Internet services to operators, today announced the acquisition of Widality(R), an industry-leading B2B mobile app development and services company. Wmode and Widality, two privately held companies, are joining to capitalize on the rapidly growing smartphone application opportunity. Wmode has been delivering browser based ...
Ottawa (ots/PRNewswire) - Iogen Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a process to explore strategic alternatives for enhancing shareholder value and funding the deployment of its world leading renewable energy technology. The company has retained Goldman, Sachs & Co. as its exclusive financial advisor. Iogen Corporation is a joint owner, with Royal Dutch Shell plc, of Iogen Energy, ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange and Nokia today announced a new integrated Ovi service that widens the developer ecosystem and gives Orange customers using Nokia handsets easier access to more content. Orange is integrating Ovi content with the best of its apps from the Orange Application Shop to give customers simpler, more secure access to a wider range of ...
Epernay, France (ots/PRNewswire) - In what was the Champagne region's most anticipated event this Harvest season, last night Moët & Chandon, the world's most loved champagne, hosted a "Tribute to Heritage" gala at its estate in Epernay. The glamorous event paid tribute to the Maison's heritage of celebration, inviting international VIPs to partake in the magical ...
Brussels, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - The Excellence in Epilepsy Journalism Award, a joint initiative of the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and UCB, recognizes and rewards journalists from across the world who produce informed and compelling news and feature stories on epilepsy, as decided by an independent, international judging panel. Articles and ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey, the leading eSecurity and Digital Trust company, has been nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company. The World Economic Forum's Global Growth Companies (GGC), founded in 2007, nominates leading enterprises from around the world that have the potential to become tomorrow's industry leaders and a driving force of ...
Geneva (ots) - Hublot - the Swiss luxury watch brand which brings the "Art of Fusion" and the passion for unexpected combinations and innovation to watchmaking - and WISeKey, a 2010 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Growth Company, announced the successful deployment of their unique breakthrough ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - AstraZeneca today announced results from a phase II study evaluating the investigational drug vandetanib for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic papillary or follicular thyroid cancer. This study, ZACTHYF, showed that treatment with vandetanib significantly ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - THE MOTH DIARIES commenced principal photography on the official Canada-Ireland co-production on August 31 on location in and around Montreal. The gothic horror feature film written and directed by Mary Harron is based on the cult novel of the same name written by Rachel Klein. ...
Antony, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Stallergenes S.A. has announced today the signing of exclusive partnership agreements with Shionogi & Co., Ltd. for two sublingual allergen immunotherapy tablet products resulting from the Stalair(R) program: Actair(R) house dust mite tablets and Japanese cedar pollen tablets. With 32 million respiratory allergy sufferers, there ...
Cork, Ireland (ots/PRNewswire) - Tibotec Pharmaceuticals today announced its submission of a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for TMC278 (rilpivirine, as hydrochloride), an investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) for the treatment of ...
LOUVAIN- LA-NEUVE, Belgium, September 2, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.), developer of equipment and pharmaceuticals dedicated to cancer diagnosis and treatment, announced today that it has sold the prototype of its next generation carbon therapy system to the French company CYCLHAD (un CYCLotron pour l'HADronthérapie, or a Cyclotron for Hadron Therapy). CYCLHAD is a joint venture between IBA, ...
Hallmark Channel UK and Universal Networks International
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Universal Networks International has today announced the rebranding of Hallmark Channel in the UK to Universal Channel, launching its new look on Monday 18th October with the UK premiere of SHATTERED - an original series produced in partnership with E1 Entertainment. The new channel ...
Castres, France (ots/PRNewswire) - During its first meeting, the Board of Directors of Pierre Fabre SA chaired by Mr. Pierre Fabre appointed Olivier BOHUON as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Olivier BOHUON, 51, has until now been the executive vice-president of Abbott Corporation and president of its pharmaceutics division. In this capacity, he directed ...
Lugano (ots) - The Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D. today performed the official opening of the centre which will play a significant role in Helsinn group's pipeline of new products. The Swiss pharmaceutical group Helsinn announced the official opening, performed today by the Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D, of its new R&D Centre of ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Sanofi-aventis announced today that results from the RealiseAF (Real-life global survey evaluating patients with Atrial Fibrillation) registry show that control of atrial fibrillation (AF) (defined by the 2006 ACC/AHA/ESC AF guidelines as either sinus rhythm or AF with heart rate at ...
Stockholm (ots/PRNewswire) - DAIICHI SANKYO announced today that the ongoing trials ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 (The Effective Anticoagulation with Factor Xa Next Generation in Atrial Fibrillation) and HOKUSAI VTE with their investigational factor Xa inhibitor edoxaban are enrolling in accordance to plan. The ...