by MBJ Staff Published: April 23,2013
Tags: antifungal, award, drug, education, health, health care, higher education, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, medical, medicine, pharmaceutical, postsecondary education, public university, startup company, university
STARKVILLE — Sano Chemical, the company launched to develop an antifungal drug discovered at Mississippi State University, has received the university’s Faculty Start-up Company of the Year. Dr. Stephen Pruett, basic sciences department head at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said the award was given by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 14,2012
Tags: acquire, acquisition, buy, drug, health, health care, medicine, merger, pharmaceutical, sale, sell, transaction
MADISON — Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Texas, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cypress Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately owned generic pharmaceutical company, and Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Hawthorn”), a privately owned branded pharmaceutical company, both based in Madison. Under the terms of the agreement, Pernix will pay approximately [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 2,2012
Tags: drug, education, grant, higher education, learn, learning, medical, medicine, pharmaceutical, pharmacy, public university, research and development, school, student, teach, teaching
OXFORD — The University of Mississippi and its School of Pharmacy have received a five-year, $10-million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, grant from the National Institutes of Health. COBRE is one of the main components for NIH’s Institutional Development Award program, which is designed to broaden funding for biomedical and behavioral research. The [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 12,2012
Tags: alumna, Alumni, colleges, donation, drugs, education, endowment, gift, higher education, medinice, pharmaceutical, pharmacist, pharmacy, scholarship, universities
OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is offering a new scholarship thanks to the generosity of the late Madeline O. Sciacca of Slidell, La., who remembered her alma mater in her will. Sciacca, who obtained her pharmacy degree from UM in 1953, left $400,000 to the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy to [...] [...]
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