BioTrain Associate Company Partners
The following companies have partnered with BioTrain to offer summer 2011 internship positions. More information about each company can be found by clicking on the company names. If you are interested in a particular Associate Company, you will be able to view the internship positions offered by that company while completing the online application.
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The biomedical division of CFD Research Corporation develops innovative solutions for lab-on-chip technologies, point of care devices, chemical and biological sensors, biologically inspired power sources, and systems biology and bioinformatics tools. The new concepts, designs, prototypes and software are developed through highly competitive government contracts and then adapted, applied and licensed for industrial applications. In 2010, several new programs were launched in areas...
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Clarient, Inc. combines innovative diagnostic technologies with world-class pathology expertise to assess and characterize cancer. The rise of individualized medicine has created the need for a centralized resource to provide leading oncology diagnostic technologies, such as flow cytometry and molecular testing: Clarient is that resource. The company plans to develop and market new, proprietary “companion” diagnostic markers for therapeutics in breast, prostate, lung and colon...
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Conversant Bio is a worldwide supplier of U.S.-sourced human clinical specimens for research and development applications. Conversant’s product, high quality disease specimens matched with in-depth, privacy-protected clinical information, gives researchers a critical tool in the development of diagnostic tests, prognostic indicators and therapeutic treatments. Oncology, hematology, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cardiology and normal healthy donors are among the company...
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EGEN, Inc. is a privately held biopharmaceutical company specializing in nucleic acid (DNA, RNAi) therapeutics and delivery via proprietary TheraPlas™ and TheraSilence™ technologies. EGEN’s lead product, EGEN-001, was listed in Top 100 Investigational Drugs by R&D Directions and selected to Windhover’s Top 10 Oncology Drugs Available for Partnering. The company will begin two EGEN-001 phase II ovarian cancer trials in mid 2010 in conjunction with the Gynecological...
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iXpressGenes is committed to providing the best quality gene synthesis and recombinant tools for research, industrial applications and education. Genes are DNA composed of thousands of chemical units called nucleic acid base pairs. The company has developed a proprietary technology that enables the construction of customized genes (ranging up to 3000 base pairs) in less than five days. Current commercial methods take almost four weeks.
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Kailos Genetics, Inc. is a clinical laboratory services company, Kailos Genetics has developed a personalized medicine technology platform that offers physicians greater insight into how to select a prescription drug for patients based on genetic makeup. Most people have at least one genetic variation that puts them at risk of an adverse reaction to one-third of the most commonly prescribed medicines. By providing timely access to clinically relevant genetic information at a cost consistent...
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Serina Therapeutics, Inc. is the only company in the world to develop polyoxazoline polymers for pharmaceutical applications. POZ polymers are multifunctional and can be coupled to known drugs, creating novel therapeutics to dramatically alter pharmacokinetics. Molecules that normally have short duration times in the body can be converted to molecules with prolonged activity – sometimes as long as weeks. This prolonged half-life in the body may improve the safety and efficacy of...
