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Smiths Group venture agreement with Novartis

chris valcke — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:38:56 +0000

2010-03-24 12:04:44
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Business Financial Newswire – Smiths Group says that it diagnostics business, Smiths Detection has signed an agreement whereby Novartis is granted exclusive rights to market Smiths Detection’s Bio-Seeq instrument which enables rapid detection of bacterial and viral pathogens.

Novartis Diagnostics will be responsible for clinical trials, regulatory affairs, sales and marketing.

Financial terms have not been disclosed, but payments will be linked to product development and commercial milestones.

Bill Mawer, President of Smiths Detection Diagnostics, says: “We are delighted that such a major health company as Novartis has chosen to invest in the Bio-Seeq platform and our LATE PCR technology.”

Story provided by Business Financial Newswire
source: http://www.bfnnews.com/display/?id=3807283&sectionId=standardNews

Oak tree drops on house

chris valcke — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:51:11 +0000

What a way to wake up at 1AM in the morning when an oak tree on the back side hill got unrooted from all the rain and dropped on the roof. The major branches just missed the critical structures and the canopy provided some cushioning. Still quite a bit of damange and a challenge to get the tree cleaned up from the roof and the hill. Victor from East Bay Tree service got his crew together and got most of the job done on Saturday.

Tree trunk visible on back of house after removal of canopy

more pics at Flickr
A previous post showed a pic of the tree still standing

New Citizen

chris valcke — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:56:56 +0000

On June 3, 2009, Chris became US citizen. With 978 other immigrants from 99 countries, the quick process of transitioning from “alien card” to US citizen was completed in the Oakland Paramount theatre.

First Communion

chris valcke — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:50:50 +0000

Another rite of passage completed when Natalie did her first communion at Santa Maria Parish.

More pics at flickr

Flush (if you can)

chris valcke — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:39:03 +0000

Living in a house built in 1947 in Orinda also means discovering some “delayed” maintenance. When the sewer line doesn’t work anymore, the consequences are readily noticed…. Good thing we found Roy Garrity plumbing who was able to pull a new line without having to dig up the whole street and sideyard. Impressive job, completed in one day (makes me think of laparoscopic surgery).

More pics at Flickr

Cabo 09

chris valcke — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:19:43 +0000

Spring break and a week in Cabo. Thanks to a great auction deal on local KQED, we returned to Marquiz. One day fishing trip didn’t yield the marlins as last time.

more picks at flickr

Courtside

chris valcke — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:00:05 +0000

The annual Sleepy Hollow Elementary School auction yielded a nice surprise when we scored two courtside tickets for the Warriors Basketball game. Nicholas and papa saw the Timberwolves take a win in Oakland. Best of all, we were sitting six feet away from Kevin Love, UCLA hero.

The tickets are unfortunately a little bit outside our comfort zone…

Happy 12

chris valcke — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:26:24 +0000

Fifth grade, turning 12 and birthday party with buddies. Throw in Jessica A’s visiting girl’s birthday party and turn up the music!

Happy 8

chris valcke — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:01 +0000

Almost Christmas and end of 2008. Natalie is in 2nd grade and turning 8 with the traditional gingerbread party.

Teeth…

Chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:56:44 +0000

Natalie needed a bit more room to accomodate new teeth and some baby ones had to go, 4 in one day. Can’t believe they get this big!?

4 Teeth

The tooth fairy was extremely generous!