May 2010
BIOTECH PARK NEWS
Tonya Mallory Named Influential Woman in Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Tonya Mallory, President and CEO of Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., was recently named as an “Influential Woman” in Virginia Lawyers Weekly. Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. established in 2009 as a privately owned national clinical reference laboratory located in the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park. It is emerging as a leader in disease state management focused on identifying and reversing the health risks associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and fatty liver disease.
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RichTech Honors the Area’s Greatest Tech Firms and Folks
RichTech held its 15th Annual Awards Gala, honoring the best local companies and leaders that drive Central Virginia’s technology-based economy. More than 500 people attended the Technology Stars gala, held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The awards recognize individual accomplishments, corporate wins, non-profit success stories, innovators in their field, and small business triumphs.
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Green Shoots in Hanover
A new incubator in Hanover County is helping to grow businesses in the clean energy sector and already has its first crop of startups moving in. Built on the model of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park and managed by the same folks, the Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator in Ashland provides office space to startups and provides them with guidance and advice from business counselors. The incubator, which launched in December, has three businesses under its roof, with a fourth in the process of moving in.
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First Tenants Accepted for New GreenTech Incubator Facility in Hanover County
The Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator (DRGI), a center to assist new businesses focused on energy efficiency and other clean and green technologies, has accepted its first two tenants in its Ashland facility in the Presidential II building. DRGI, which opened for business in January 2010, is a joint initiative of Hanover County, the Town of Ashland, the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park (VBRP), the Virginia Biosciences Development Center (VBDC) and Dominion Resources (NYSE: D), the program’s title sponsor.
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NEWS and RESEARCH at VCU
David Chelmow, M.D., Joins VCU School of Medicine as Chair of Ob-Gyn
David P. Chelmow, M.D., has been named professor and chair of the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, effective Sept. 1. He will join the VCU faculty following 18 years at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he currently is professor and vice chair for research and education, and program director for the Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Tufts University Affiliated Hospitals.
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Magazine Spotlights VP’s Inventive Side
Sheldon Retchin — Vice President for Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University, CEO of the VCU Health System, doctor, professor and inventor — now has another title to add to his lengthy curriculum vitae: cover model. Retchin is featured on the cover of this month’s Swimmer magazine, the publication of U.S. Masters Swimming, for his invention that brought music to the swimming masses: the SwiMP3.
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New Clues to Understanding Insulin Sensitivity
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified that the removal of cholesterol by a key enzyme called CEH can attenuate inflammation and subsequently affect the development of diabetes, paving the way for new target therapies that may one day prevent diabetes and help predict a patient’s susceptibility to the disease.
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Live Surgery from VCU Medical Center Broadcast to the 2nd Annual World Robotic Gynecology Congress in Florida
Using a minimally invasive, state-of-the art technology known as the da Vinci robot, Catherine Matthews, M.D., a Urogynecologist at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, performed a surgical procedure designed to correct pelvic organ prolapse that was transmitted live from an operating room at the VCU Medical Center to a large audience of gynecologists gathered at the 2nd Annual World Robotic Gynecology Congress in Florida earlier this month. The live surgery from VCU was one of only four live surgeries featured during the three-day conference geared toward non-robotic, training and practicing robotic surgeons, allied health personnel and health care executives and administration.
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