People around the world consumed nearly 7.7 million tons of chocolate in the last year, but the cacao crop that supports the production of these sweets is under significant environmental threat. Millions of cacao farmers in West Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America feel the pressures of ever-increasing consumption, a changing climate and devastating fungal […]
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology contributed a whopping $2.45 billion to Alabama’s statewide economy, according to a data analysis from the Center for Management & Economic Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The data, taken from an analysis conducted between 2006 and 2018 said three factors had the most impact including employment, revenue and […]
Long-time local business and community leader Danny Windham has been named chief operating officer of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Windham brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to HudsonAlpha, serving as president and COO at Adtran (2005-07) and CEO at Digium (2007-18). “I have great admiration for the founders and leaders of HudsonAlpha,” […]
The team at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology mourns the passing of an inspirational leader, Lonnie McMillian, the co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Institute. McMillian died Sunday. He was 90. McMillian was a founder of Adtran, a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. When he retired from the company in 2001, he […]
Stacey Brewer, executive coordinator for Dr. Neil Lamb at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, was recently appointed as board chair for the International Association of Administrative Professionals Foundation. Brewer will serve a two-year term. “Successful organizations depend on top-tier administrative professionals like Stacey Brewer,” said Lamb. “Admins are arguably the critical ‘connective tissue’ that keep a […]
Brightly colored beads in clear containers of various sizes and shapes represent more than 5 million learners who have experienced a HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HAIB) educational outreach opportunity. The display covering the past 10 years sits on the second floor of the new Paul Propst Center, which opened in September. The education team, headed […]
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has received a five-year, $1.29 million grant to develop a story-driven digital learning platform for bioinformatics and infectious disease. The grant comes from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH through the Science Education Partnerships Awards (SEPA). The program, called “Filtered,” takes students on a journey of […]
Alabama is working to be among the leaders in diagnosing rare diseases and Dr. David Bick of HudsonAlpha’s Institute for Biotechnology is part of the strategy. Bick, a clinical geneticist and a faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha, sees rare disease patients at the Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine located on the institute’s Huntsville campus. […]
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday for the Paul Propst Center, the newest addition to the biotech campus.
The Rocket City will become Genome City when researchers gather here for the sixth annual Immunogenomics conference. Leading immunology and genomics researchers from around the globe will convene at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Oct. 1-3 for the conference. Immunogenomics lies at the intersection of immunology and genomics and explores the ways in which the […]
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