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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:37 PM

Tom Watkins

Type: Person

Name: Tom Watkins

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Politics)

End the educational paper chase

The Detroit News is highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform, restructuring government and the economy.Idea 43: End the practice of compensating public school teachers based solely on longevity and college degrees earned ... [Detroit News - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Tom Watkins, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Teaching, Retirement Benefits

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Educate college underclassmen with a year of e-learning

The Detroit News is highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform, restructuring government and the economy.Idea 39: Offer the equivalent of one year of basic freshman or sophomore instruction through e-learning.Why: Technology ... [Detroit News - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Tom Watkins, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Assault

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Steer students to underfilled professions

The Detroit News is highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform, restructuring government and the economy.Idea 40: Use market forces to steer students to high-demand fields such as math, science and technology. Those who major ... [Detroit News - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Tom Watkins, Education, University of Michigan

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 2 Documents

Jennifer Granholm

MI: Editorial: Gov. Granholm's attack on Prop A misdirected

Gov. Jennifer Granholm told a Grand Rapids audience last week she wants to rejigger the state school aid funding formula because it no longer is working. But the real problem is Michigan's moribund economy, which has led to a shortage of money from many ... [Stateline - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Jennifer Granholm, Tom Watkins, Taxes

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents

HGS's groundbreaking lupus drug promising in second Phase III

and its partner GlaxoSmithKline revealed that the high dose of their experimental lupus therapy demonstrated a statistically superior response compared to placebo in a second late-stage trial, laying the groundwork for an FDA marketing application.Benlysta ... [FierceBiotech - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Tom Watkins, Placebo, Leerink Swann & Co Inc, Phase III Trial

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Human Genome leaps on test result

Human Genome Sciences Inc. (HGSI/NASDAQ) said its experimental lupus drug Benlysta eased symptoms in more than 43% of patients who took it in a clinical trial, paving the way for approval of the first new treatment for the disease in 50 years.The news ... [Financial Post - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Human Genome, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Tom Watkins, Human Genome Sciences Inc

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

No more senior year of high school

The Detroit News is highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform, restructuring government and the economy.Idea 34: Eliminate the senior year of high school.Why: For far too many of Michigan's students, the 12th grade has become ... [Detroit News - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Education, Tom Watkins, Higher Education

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Radical reforms could improve education

When I was a boy, I learned you had to pull up the anchor if you wanted to set sail. Many elected officials in Lansing never seem to have learned this lesson.If we are to thrive in the global knowledge economy and invest our limited resources where they ... [Detroit News - 11/12/2009]

Entities: Education, Tom Watkins, Lansing (Michigan, United States)

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents

Proposed Texas Disciplinary Rule Changes Target Conflicts, Scienter, Sex

Mary Alice RobbinsTexas Lawyerdel.icio.usDiggRedditFacebookGoogle BookmarksNewsvineLinkedInMixxStumbleuponFor the first time in almost 20 years, the Texas Supreme Court has proposed comprehensive changes in the state's disciplinary rules for lawyers, ... [Law.com - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Task Force, Supreme Court, Tom Watkins, Texas Supreme Court

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biotechnology)

D.C.-area biotechs set to pitch investors at Mid-Atlantic Bio

Five local biotechs are among 24 companies making investor presentations to the regions most well-known gathering for biotech professionals. This years Mid-Atlantic Bio, the fifth time that the MdBio division of the Tech Council of Maryland, Mid-Atlantic ... [Biz Journals - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Biotechnology, MdBio, Virginia Biotechnology Association, Tech Council of Maryland, Tom Watkins

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents

Watkins: More action, less talk on reforming budget

In the middle of another budget crisis, the Legislative Commission on Government Efficiency has released its draft report on stabilizing Michigan's finances. After 18 months of kicking the can down the road, yet another report tells state leaders what ... [Detroit News - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Tom Watkins, Jennifer Granholm, William Milliken, James Blanchard, John Engler

First Reported 07/21/2009 - Updated 07/21/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Employers warned over cost of swine flu

EMPLOYERS who do not adequately protect staff from swine flu could face legal costs of tens of thousands of pounds if they are found to have breached their duty of care, an employment lawyer has warned. Tom Watkins, of Dickinson Dees, said that firms ... [Yorkshire Post - 07/21/2009]

Entities: Swine Flu, Dickinson Dees, Tom Watkins, Liability

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...to become the first new approved drug in decades for people living with systemic lupus," Tom Watkins, chief executive, said in a statement. "we take great pride in the innovation and scientific rigor that has made it possible to bring benlysta to this point."

Human Genome leaps on test result [Financial Post - 11/03/2009]

...our view that Benlysta has the potential to become the first new approved drug in decades for people living with systemic lupus,' said Watkins. "the lupus community has waited for decades for one positive phase three trial of an investigative drug developed for lupus" Dr. Joan T Merrill, a lupus expert at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and an investigator in the trial. 'Now we have two...

HGS's groundbreaking lupus drug promising in second Phase III [FierceBiotech - 11/02/2009]

...authorization applications for Zalbin and Joulferon is planned for later this quarter,' said Tom Watkins, the CEO of Human Genome Sciences. "assuming licensure by the fda and other regulatory agencies, hgs believes zalbin could become a market-leading treatment for chronic hepatitis c " If it does, HGS stands to benefit directly. The developer has held on to co-promotion rights in the U S market with a deal to split profits

HGS claims $75M payday as hep C drug heads to FDA [FierceBiotech - 10/19/2009]

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