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Employment Opportunities

Center of Excellence for Passive Therapeutics, a collaborative research group uniting academia and industry in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has openings for a Senior Research Scientist, a Postdoctoral Fellow, a Senior Research Technician, and a Research Technician to participate in the ongoing commercial development of passive therapeutics and vaccines for emerging viral diseases. We are seeking highly self motivated, energetic individuals who possess broad knowledge in immunology, vaccines, and the treatment of infectious disease to contribute their expertise to the research and development of the Center's novel therapeutic products. Compensation will be based on years of experience and technical knowledge.

Visit http://undrf.org/jobs for more information.

Laserlith Steers a Course to Grand Forks

Delore Zimmerman, Red River Valley Research Corridor

Laserlith, an Oakland, California based company and leading designer of wireless micro-machined components for defense systems and cell phones, unveiled its future plans in the Research Corridor on March 24, 2008. U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan announced that the company will partner with the UND School of Engineering and Mines and Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering to design, test and demonstrate MEMS communication linkages on an unmanned aerial systems platform.

PROGRESS: Center for commercialization - UND building to team business tenants, life sciences researchers

Tu-Uyen Tran, Grand Forks Herald

Out on the west end of the UND campus, down by the railroad tracks, is a half-completed building covered in opaque nylon that represents the culmination of the university's efforts to get the fruits of its research out of the lab and onto the market.

The $14 million, 50,000-square-foot facility will be the first of its kind for UND when it becomes operational sometime in July.

PROGRESS: The new COELSAT research facility - Meet the tenants

Tu-Uyen Tran, Grand Forks Herald

What are the firms and organizations moving into the new COELSAT research facility at UND this July?

Here's a rundown of who they are, what they do and why they'll be there:

Bio-tech

-- Avianax:
Based in Grand Forks, this new firm will be researching antibody therapy and vaccines for West Nile virus and the bird flu virus.

Vaccines are what you take to help your body prepare to fight specific diseases. Antibody therapy is what you take after you get the disease. Antibodies don't cure the disease but they reduce its potency.

UND: Research park receives boost

David Dodds, Grand Forks Herald

The UND Research Foundation set in place Friday a solid building block for what will become the first major science facility in its new research park. The foundation plans to break ground on the $14 million Center of Excellence in Life Science and Advanced Technology later this month, thanks in part to a $1.5 million check delivered personally by a member of the Bush administration economic team.