MUSC research funding on track to break record

Through November, MUSC has generated more than $97 million in research grants, a third higher than at the same point last year. With more than half the year remaining, MUSC is on track to do $180 million in research. Continue reading

Biotech firm puts Charleston region on stem cell map

Message to soon-to-be-mothers: After giving birth, save the blood in your baby’s umbilical cord. The stem cells in that blood someday could save your baby’s life or the life of another family member—including you. So advises Don DeLuca Sr., CEO of CureSource Inc., a North Charleston-based biotech company claiming to be South Carolina’s only umbilical cord blood storage bank. Continue reading

Charleston to serve as Troy Container’s European gateway to the South Atlantic states

Charleston has become the focal point of New Jersey-based Troy Container Line. The shipping company, which ships goods to and from more than 500 ports around the world, recently launched direct service from Antwerp to Charleston, with the Holy City serving as Troy Container’s European gateway to the South Atlantic states. Continue reading

Kauffman Foundation awards College of Charleston $90,000 grant to strengthen entrepreneurship program

Entrepreneurial ed. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship nationwide, recently awarded the College of Charleston a $90,000 grant to help turn liberal arts students into entrepreneurs. Continue reading

North Charleston-based Information Systems Support changes hands in $4.1 million deal

Information Systems Support Inc., based in North Charleston, agreed Monday to sell its eight-employee BioMetric Solutions Group Inc. division to Saflink Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., in a deal valued at $4.1 million. BioMetric Solutions will keep its offices on the South Carolina Research Authority campus on International Boulevard. Continue reading

Biotech company relocates its headquarters back to the Charleston region

Struthers Inc., a small publicly traded biotechnology company that specialized in swine genetics, has relocated its headquarters back to the Charleston region from Iowa under a new board of directors and its former chief executive officer. Continue reading

Charleston puts new spin on Wi-Fi connectivity

It's become a familiar story in the past few months: Municipal authorities roll out Wi-Fi connectivity downtown in more or less limited ways, in an effort to test the technology and perhaps offer a new amenity to local businesses. Now Charleston, S.C. has joined the crowd, but Charleston has put a new spin on the idea, with a Wi-Fi deployment conceived specifically as a driver of economic development. Continue reading

Former Charleston Naval Base to become home to new Coast Guard Academy

The former Charleston Naval Base soon will become home to a new Coast Guard Law Enforcement Academy, a move that will bring about 2,000 Coast Guard trainees to the base each year. Continue reading

Charleston’s SPAWAR involved in development of command center in Bahrain

When the Navy's 5th Fleet moved its headquarters ashore onto the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain in 1993, some sailors found themselves working in converted shipping containers. Three years later, a deadly terrorist attack on the Air Force's Khobar Towers barracks in nearby Saudi Arabia drove home the danger of those surroundings. "At that point, the Department of Defense asked us to build a new building," said Jonathan Searight, a project engineer with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station. Continue reading

MUSC among the biggest beneficiaries of funding from the National Institutes of Health

The Medical University of South Carolina is among the biggest beneficiaries of a massive infusion of dollars into the National Institutes of Health, according to the Feb. 6 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Continue reading