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EpiVax, De Groot focus of WRNI feature on biotech and the "knowledge economy"
Posted on August 24, 2009 by Annie De Grootbiotech and the “knowledge economy” Can Higher Ed Boost Biotech Start-Ups In RI? Providence officials are expected to unveil details of a plan next month to turn part of downtown into a hub for biotechnology and small start-up companies. WRNI education reporter Elisabeth Harrison looks at a shift at colleges and universities that may help strengthen the ...Read moreEpiVax, De Groot focus of WRNI feature on biotech and the “knowledge economy”
Posted on August 24, 2009 by epivax3biotech and the “knowledge economy” Can Higher Ed Boost Biotech Start-Ups In RI? Providence officials are expected to unveil details of a plan next month to turn part of downtown into a hub for biotechnology and small start-up companies. WRNI education reporter Elisabeth Harrison looks at a shift at colleges and universities that may help strengthen the ...Read moreCicilline cites EpiVax as socially-conscious company
Posted on August 19, 2009 by epivax3The Bottom Line: Rebranding a City 19 August 2009 David N Cicilline, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island in the US ‘Providence is fast becoming a hot-bed for young social entrepreneurs, those creative individuals who take an innovative, untested idea for positive social change and develop it using entrepreneurial principles’ How one city is using social enterprise to turn around ...Read moreMass High Tech Business News: De Groot wins $13M NIH Grant
Posted on July 31, 2009 by epivax3Read the original MHT article By Brendan Lynch The University of Rhode Island reports researcher Annie DeGroot has landed a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a multidisciplinary program to develop vaccines for infectious diseases. The research is being led by DeGroot, the director of the school’s Institute for Immunology and Informatics, and ...Read moreProvidence Business News: De Groot wins $13M NIH grant
Posted on July 29, 2009 by epivax3Read the original Providence Business News article By PBN Staff PROVIDENCE – Prominent local researcher and University of Rhode Island professor Dr. Anne S. De Groot has been awarded a $13 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health. It is the second large NIH grant awarded to URI researchers in recent months. In May, a pharmacy ...Read moreProvidence Journal: URI wins $13-million federal grant for vaccine research
Posted on July 29, 2009 by epivax3Read the original article in the Providence Journal By C. Eugene Emery Jr. PROVIDENCE — Dr. Annie De Groot and her colleagues think they have a better way of speeding the development of vaccines against Lyme disease, hepatitis and stomach cancer. The federal government apparently believes their ideas are worth a ...Read moreURI researcher awarded $13 million grant for development of vaccines for emerging infectious diseases
Posted on July 29, 2009 by epivax3Simulation tools used to train next generation of scientific researchers PROVIDENCE, R.I. – July 28, 2009 University of Rhode Island Professor Annie De Groot has been awarded a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to pioneer the development and application of an integrated gene-to-vaccine program targeting emerging infectious diseases. It is the second multi-million ...Read moreEpiVax Research to be Presented at Numerous Conferences this Autumn
Posted on July 29, 2009 by epivax3EpiVax is proud to be presenting our research findings at numerous conferences in the coming months, including: Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS4) 3rd Annual Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Discovery Immunogenicity Testing: Clinical and Regulatory Strategy for Biopharmaceuticals Immunogenicity Summit Three oral and two poster presentations at 2nd European Congress of ImmunologyRead moreProvidence Business News profiles Dr. Anne De Groot
Posted on June 2, 2009 by epivax3Vaccine research has helped her make a difference By Marion Davis Contributing Writer SEARCHING FOR A CURE: Anne De Groot founded EpiVax in 1998 with her research partner Bill Martin. The company has developed vaccines for HIV, tuberculosis, smallpox and other diseases. PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE EWENS Dr. Anne S. De Groot went to medical school, she said, “to right the wrongs ...Read moreDr. De Groot honored at PBN Business Women Awards luncheon
Posted on May 21, 2009 by epivax3PBN honors Business Women winners By PBN Staff PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News today held a luncheon to recognize the accomplishments of the 26 women honored over the past year as part of the newspaper’s second annual program recognizing women in the Rhode Island business community. The luncheon this afternoon at the Providence Marriott Downtown on Orms Street ...Read moreDr. Anne De Groot Appears on "Amazing Women" Radio Show
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Annie De GrootAmazing Women Degroot Dr. Anne De Groot and Amazing Women host Deb Ruggiero talk about immunology, immunoinformatics, and diabetes research. The program is split into two segments, each 11 minutes long. (Player requires Flash and JavaScript)Read moreDr. Anne De Groot Appears on “Amazing Women” Radio Show
Posted on May 21, 2009 by epivax3Amazing Women Degroot Dr. Anne De Groot and Amazing Women host Deb Ruggiero talk about immunology, immunoinformatics, and diabetes research. The program is split into two segments, each 11 minutes long. (Player requires Flash and JavaScript)Read moreAnnie De Groot Presents to NIH/NIAID on Next Generation Epitope-Driven Vaccines
Posted on May 4, 2009 by epivax3In early May, Dr. Annie De Groot will be presenting to the NIH/NIAID regarding next generation epitope-driven vaccines: "More Effector Epitopes, Less Heterologous Epitopes, and no T-regitopes?" The presentation will be hosted by David Sacks, PhD, Chief of Intracellular Parasite Biology Section for the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. While whole killed, whole protein, ...Read moreDr. Annie De Groot chosen for PBN Overall Career Achievement Award
Posted on April 28, 2009 by epivax3The Providence Business News has chosen Dr. Annie De Groot as this year's receipient of the Overall Career Achievement Award. From the nomination: Dr. De Groot has a vision for Rhode Island; she sees our state as being the leader in biotechnology, an engine in the new knowledge economy, and a model for economic redevelopment to the ...Read moreDaughter, Father Reunite at URI Lab
Posted on February 24, 2009 by epivax3http://www.projo.com/business/content/BZ_FATHER_DAUGHTER_02-24-09_H5DCTR0_v45.3093601.html PROVIDENCE – The equipment and building are new, but there is something familiar about Annie De Groot’s new digs: her father, who was among her first faculty appointments at the University of Rhode Island. When Annie De Groot, a Brown University professor and the chief executive officer of EpiVax, was given the job of directing ...Read more
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