California biotech firm begins hiring for big RTP operation, names site exec Date Published: March 2, 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – GRAIL, the California-based biotech firm targeting cancer, is moving ahead quickly with plans to open a…
Inside potential $1B deal for Ribometrix: A look at startup’s science, history Date Published: January 13, 2021 Ribometrix, a Durham company specializing in RNA-based therapeutics, has formed a drug discovery and development collaboration with Genentech that could…
Life science data, imaging business with 2,300 employees launches, has an HQ in Durham Date Published: January 11, 2021 DURHAM – Calyx, a spinoff of life science firm Parexel, launches today with 2,300 employees and a dual headquarters, one…
Making a potential $360M deal: Chimerix buys firm focusing on emerging cancer therapy Date Published: January 8, 2021 DURHAM – Chimerix (Nasdaq: CMRX) is buying a privately held biotech company that is focusing on emerging therapies to combat…
Aiming to help keep women in workforce, Durham female exec’s startup lands investors Date Published: January 6, 2021 DURHAM – In the wake of the pandemic, a women-led startup aimed at keeping women in the workforce is taking…
Jobs paying average of $123,000 are coming to Durham – here’s the deal Date Published: November 24, 2020 DURHAM – Clorox is bringing more jobs – and they are high paying ones – to Durham. This time Clorox…
‘Gigafactory’ campus for vaccine production, hundreds of jobs coming to Triangle Date Published: November 19, 2020 DURHAM – A 1 million-square-foot campus, including a massive “gigafactory” to manufacture vaccine and therapeutic prefilled plastic injectors in the…
Gates Foundation awards Duke $4.5M grant to field-test new sanitation technologies Date Published: November 13, 2020 DURHAM – Duke University has received a $4.5 million grant to support the management of field-testing transformative sanitation technologies to…
Duke biomedical engineers discover bacterial DNA’s recipe for success Date Published: November 12, 2020 DURHAM – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new way of modeling how potentially beneficial packages of DNA…