Data reinforce company’s position as the best service provider based on service quality across all phases of clinical development

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Friday, June 17th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles has been named the industry leader in Phase I, Phase II/III and Phase IV services, according to the Industry Standard Research’s (ISR) 2016 CRO Quality Benchmarking — Phases I, II/III and IV reports. Quintiles also was named the best service provider across all phases of clinical development for differentiation based on service quality and was identified as the most used provider of Phase I, Phase II/III and Phase IV services, according to the three reports.

“In today’s complex and interconnected healthcare landscape, success requires a higher degree of scale, specialization and efficiency than ever before,” said Quintiles Chief Operating Officer Kevin Gordon. “We are honored to be recognized for ... Read more »

TOKYO - Wednesday, June 15th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Asahi Glass Foundation, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its international environmental award, the Blue Planet Prize, announced that its two annual prizes would be awarded this year to Pavan Sukhdev of India and Markus Borner of Switzerland. Both recipients will receive a cash award of 50 million yen.

The Asahi Glass Foundation established the Blue Planet Prize in 1992, the year of the pivotal Earth Summit, to recognize individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions toward solving global environmental problems.

Pavan Sukhdev (India)

Pavan Sukhdev is an UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, a founding trustee of the Green Indian States Trust (GIST), the founder & CEO of GIST Advisory and an associate fellow of Davenport College at Yale University. He was selected for his pioneering research into economic rationale and practical metrics for transitioning towards an in ... Read more »

TOKYO - Thursday, June 16th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) has developed an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for analog power semiconductor application, fabricated with advanced 0.13μm process technology, that optimizes the structure of transistor and significantly improves ESD characteristics. ESD protection is much more robust, up four times, and the standard deviation is only 1/12 that of the conventional structure. Analysis of 3D simulations has also allowed Toshiba to identify a mechanism for optimizing transistor structure to boost ESD robustness. Toshiba announced these advances at “ISPSD2016”, the international semiconductor symposium held in Czech on June 14, 2016.

Injections of ESD surges, whether from the human body or equipment, have the potential to destroy semiconductor devices, as ESD current flows cause local temperature increases inside silicon. ESD protection devices are required t ... Read more »