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Big-bucks incentives for biomed don't guarantee success
Welcome to Florida, where state dollars are as plentiful as sunshine when it comes to padding private-sector budgets. That was the message received by biotech outfits such as the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, lured here in 2006 with more...
Tags: Science and Technology, Lotteries, Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida), Research, National Institutes of Health
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It's unseemly for nonprofit CEOs to make millions
The story of the nonprofit CEO who solicits charity while raking in a giant salary is, by now, becoming a Central Florida cliché. There was NorthStar High School in Orange County, which was a miserable failure academically but paid its principal $824,000...
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment Events, Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health, Research
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CEOs give thanks for family, colleagues
This week begins the fourth holiday season since the start of the recession — and the almost-as-ruthless recovery.
Foreclosures are still a mess. The federal deficit looms over the government's budget like a TSA agent, ready to pat down Social...Tags: Alex Martins, Winter Garden, Amway Center, Health, Orlando Health
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Lake Nona should be no-brainer for lab
An out-of-state biomedical research nonprofit has partnered with the University of South Florida and wants to build a lab that it says will bring new jobs and spark a biomedical industry cluster — all in exchange for big public dollars.
Feeling a...Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Medical Research, Health, Tampa
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The readers write: From Isleworth to power rates
You had lots to say on the issues I wrote about last week. Here's a look inside the mailbag. Dear Beth, If my house sells because of your article, I will send you a nice bottle of my favorite red wine. We still come down from time to time, but it was...Tags: Proxy Filings, Windermere, Companies and Corporations, Photography and Video, The Home Depot
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Delays aren't medical city's biggest challenge in Lake Nona
The medical city sprouting in southeast Orlando is behind schedule. So what?
The delays mean that the University of Central Florida medical school, UCF's Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the M.D....Tags: Science and Technology, Burnham Institute, Colleges and Universities, Biotechnology, Research
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Burnham's fundraising slowly growing
By now, if all had gone according to plan, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute would have attracted $15 million in local philanthropy dollars.
But as the economy ran dry, so did the big checks.
An effort by Sanford-Burnham to sell the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Medical Research, Jeb Bush, Health, Publix Super Markets Inc.
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Psyche will drive possible double-dip
The stock market's recent Tower of Terror routine — hair-raising free falls followed by a quick bounce back up — was enough to ramp up already heightened fears of a second recession. But unlike the Disney ride, the panic isn't coming to an end...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Consumer Confidence, Labor Markets, Economic Indicator, Health
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Competition fierce for hospitals
We are about to find out if Orlando can pull off what no other market in the United States has accomplished: three top-tier destination children's hospitals.
Nemours Children's Hospital is just 18 months from opening its doors, the final stretch of a...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Healthcare Provider, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Health
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Burnham donors hard to come by
In this cash-strapped economy, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research has joined the likes of sports stadiums and performing arts centers: It is struggling to sell naming rights to pieces and parts of its new building. Walt Disney World mouse cages,...Tags: Science and Technology, Buddy Dyer, Amusement and Theme Parks, Burnham Institute, Olive Garden
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Teresa Jacobs wants to rebrand county
Beth KassabAt Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs' second job summit last week, she heard everything from how the county needs to offer domestic partner benefits to how government needs to keep weekend or night hours to increase access for business owners. It was...Tags: EA Tiburon, Maitland, Washington, DC, Companies and Corporations, Loans
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Tavistock demolishing old Agere plant in south Orlando
Orange County's bygone hopes of becoming an industry leader in microchip manufacturing are now a pile of rubble off South John Young Parkway.
Bulldozers are razing the old Agere Systems Inc. microchip factory, previously known as Cirent Semiconductor,...Tags: Science and Technology, Companies and Corporations, Material Science, Plant Openings, Business Enterprises
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