Medtronic Axes 220 Jobs; Royal DSM Pays $360M for Kensey Nash - May 3, 2012

Having trouble viewing this email? View in Browser.

Thursday, May 03, 2012  |   |   |   |  CardioNexus Corporation is an affiliated company of Panasonic Healthcare dedicated to reducing cardiovascular disease through early detection and prevention. CardioNexus' flagship product, the CardioHealth® Station, is a new multi-modality initiative to advance cardiovascular health assessment for the prevention of heart attack and stroke. The advanced, automated features of the CardioHealth® Station enable physicians, especially primary care physicians and internists, to perform atherosclerosis imaging and cardiovascular risk assessment in their offices, without need for outside referral. For more information, please visit: www.cardionexus.com.   •  Medtronic, Inc. (MDT) Axes 220 Jobs More... •  Royal DSM Pays $360 Million for Kensey Nash Corporation (KNSY) More... •  Angioslide Announces FDA 510(K) Clearance of PROTEUSTM Below the Knee Device More... •  Siemens (SI) Reveals Probe Into Russian Payments, Diagnostics Business More... •  Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Acquires Medical Device Maker in China More... More Top News Swedental 2012 November 15 - November 17, 2012 Swedish Exhibition Centre (Svenska Massan) Goteborg, Sweden Swedental is the principal trade fair in Scandinavia for the dental industry. This is where the novelties are presented first and where you will meet new suppliers and colleagues. Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference May 15, 2012 Sheraton Framingham Hotel Website One day technical conference with exhibits, breakout seminars and special guest speaker - Keynote: "Android-A Medical Development Perspective" by Alan Cohen, Medical Practice Team Leader and Director of Systems Engineering. Logic PD. This conference is specially designed for engineers, R&D, and managers to learn, engage and collaborate on a myriad of solutions to power the next era of healthcare. From inhome diagnostics to institutional healthcare imaging. For more information, please visit: http://archives.medsmagazine.com/boston   •  Low-Cost Test May Screen for Autism, University of Washington Study More... •  Two Blind British Men Have Electronic Retinas Fitted, Oxford Eye Hospital and King's College London Study More... •  ALS Clinics Start Implanting Breathing-Assist Device Under New FDA Approval, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Reveals More... •  UK Trial for Portable Brain-Cooling Device, BeneChill Reveals More... •  Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris VI) Research Team Uses Robot Eye Technology to Help the Blind More... More Featured News • Biotech Bay (Menlo Park, California) Lab Support, A Division Of On Assignment Scientist-Metabolic Engineering Will support microbial strain, pathway and enzyme engineering programs within the company using state of the art metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and evolutionary engineering techniques. • Bio NC (Rocky Mount, North Carolina) TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA Process Engineer/Sr Process Engineer Provide technical services to manufacturing for the maintenance of manufacturing processes for both internal and external manufactured products. Provide pertinent support for the submission of regulatory documents. • BioCapital (Gaithersburg, Maryland) MedImmune, LLC Systems Engineer Responsible for developing, building and implementing high quality technology solutions based on defined business requirements, design and/or vendor specifications. This position provides system engineering support to projects in the Clinical business domain. • BioMidwest (Omaha, Nebraska) EdeniQ Inc. Field Engineer Responsible for providing project, engineering and technical support to the EdeniQ, Inc. plant start-ups and the Technology Research Center. Gathering and maintaining a strong plant data base is an important part of the FSE's job. • Pharm Country (Nashua, New Hempshire) Exodyne Senior Scientist/Engineer Responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of a characterization facility that evaluates materials of interest to the Army. The incumbent will create and validate sampling and measurement protocols in order to maximize statistical value while ensuring high sample volume throughput for the facility. • Get Noticed! Add your resume to the BioSpace Career Center! • See more than 5,000 job postings in the BioSpace Career Center! Innovations in Transcatheter Stents and Transcatheter Aortic Valves • Assess the markets for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty devices and transcatheter valves. • Forecast epidemiology of key cardiology indications which impact the PTCA and transcatheter aortic valve markets. • Evaluate innovations in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty devices. Click Here for More Information Building Novel Applications with Pipeline Pilot to Drive Next Generation Sequencing This case study shows how scientists are streamlining the process of analyses of DNA sequence information. Enabled by new DNA sequencing technologies, many more scientists and informaticians are interrogating larger and more complex data set. Request Now! Biotech Bay Career Fair Job seekers can spend a day with HR representatives and Hiring Managers from top biotech, pharma, medical device and diagnostics companies in the Bay area. Candidates with a 4-year degree in the life sciences and a minimum of 2-years of industry related experience are invited to attend. (Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a four-year college degree. PhD and Postdoc candidates welcome.) Exhibiting companies are recruiting for positions in areas such as: QA/QC, clinical research, engineering, manufacturing, biostatistics, clinical data management, chemistry, regulatory affairs, and research. Job seekers may register here. • Biotech Bay Career Fair, Burlingame, CA May 29, 2012 More information about BioSpace's Career Fairs BioSpace White Paper Biotech Career Fairs For Job Seekers 101: Control Your Experience By June Salvati, BioSpace Director of Events and Corporate Services QIAGEN Sciences, Inc. 19300 Germantown Road Germantown, Maryland 20874 U.S.A. QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands holding company, is the leading global provider of sample and assay technologies. Sample technologies are used to isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from biological samples such as blood or tissue. Assay technologies are used to make such isolated biomolecules visible. QIAGEN has developed and markets more than 500 sample and assay products as well as automated solutions for such consumables. More Company Profiles FREE Subscription to Medical Design Medical Design provides design and manufacturing professionals in the Medical Device Industry with cutting edge technical and market information they need to develop, manufacture, and bring to market finished devices in today's fast paced and cost conscious medical device market. Post Your: News | Jobs | Company Profile | Event | Advertising / Sponsorship DeviceSpace 6465 South Greenwood Plaza, Suite 400 Centennial, Colorado 80111 U.S.A. Phone: 877-277-7585 Fax: 800-595-2929 DeviceSpace 90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 414 San Francisco, California 94105 U.S.A. Phone: 877-277-7585 Fax: 415-576-9217 Send questions and comments to the DeviceSpace News Beat Team. Editor & Publisher: Rosemary Do Editorial & Production Staff: Lana Ho, Maysa Darwish, Tammy Liu, Michelle Wong DeviceSpace.com - Medical Devices. Diagnostics. Community. • DeviceSpace is a registered trademark of BioSpace, Inc. • Please distribute this e-cast freely. • Credit any excerpts as follows: Copyright 2012 DeviceSpace http://www.devicespace.com • While DeviceSpace and its agents used their best efforts in collecting and preparing the information published herein, we do not assume, and hereby disclaim, any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident or other causes. If someone forwarded this news to you and you'd like to receive your own copy FREE of charge, simply Subscribe here. Safely unsubscribe from DeviceSpace.com e-mail at any time by managing your account here.