On Thursday, Unilife Corporation (NASDAQ:UNIS)’s shares jumped, after a developer, manufacturer and supplier of injectable drug delivery systems, declared the appointment of Richard L. Beckman, M.D. to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Beckman will also serve as the General Manager of Unilife’s Ocular Delivery Systems business unit.
Dr. Beckman is a board certified ophthalmologist with thirteen years of clinical practice experience and more than twenty years of corporate executive and consultancy experience with a number of global pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies.
Preceding to joining Unilife, Dr. Beckman held the position of Chief Medical Officer at Ophthotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He also held various leadership roles with Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Alcon Laboratories, Lux Pharmaceuticals, Becton Dickinson, and Allergan Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Beckman received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, and practiced as a glaucoma specialist for ten years in private practice and three years in academic practice at North Shore University Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, following a Glaucoma Fellowship at Harvard University.
Unilife Corporation designs, manufactures, and supplies injectable drug delivery systems in the United States and internationally. The company offers Unifill, a pre-filled syringe with integrated, automatic, and user-controlled retraction; Unifill Finesse, an integrated, automatic, and user-controlled retraction with standard plunger seal and plunger rod; Unifill Select, which allows an end-user to select and attach a needle at the time of injection; Unifill Nexus that is equipped with an integrated luer adapter to provide connectivity with needleless luer access devices; and Unifill Allure, which combines universal luer connectivity with automatic, user-controlled needle retraction.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Seagate Technology Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:STX)’s shares climbed, as on April 7, LaCie, the premium brand from Seagate Technology plc (STX), declared recently that its iconic Rugged Thunderbolt™ storage solution will be accessible in a 1 TB SSD capacity. With double the storage, the new LaCie® Rugged is just as portable with no size or weight raise contrast to the 500 GB offering. Plus, it still features the lightning-fast transfer rates of Thunderbolt and is tough in the field with shock, dust and water resistance.
The LaCie Rugged delivers speeds of up to 387 MB/s* – three times faster than a standard mobile hard drive**. With these speeds, creative professionals can transfer 100 GB in less than five minutes. The LaCie Rugged even provides enough bandwidth to review and edit photos or video in the field. With a laptop and a LaCie Rugged, a photographer or videographer has everything they need to back up footage or complete a project on location. This time savings and convenience is key for field-based professionals.
Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, and sells electronic data storage products in the Asia Pacific, the Americas, and EMEA countries. The company provides hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, and solid state drives that are designed for enterprise servers and storage systems in mission critical and nearline applications; for client compute applications comprising desktop and mobile computing; and for client non-compute applications, such as digital video recorders, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems, and digital media systems. It also offers data storage services, counting online backup, data protection, and recovery solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), ended its Thursday’s trading session in Green, after Baker Hughes declared that effective right away it has suspended the quarterly publication of the U.S. onshore well count. In response to the recent market downturn and internal initiatives to reduce costs, the company has prioritized its resources to support the ongoing publication of the weekly North America and monthly International rig counts, which continue to provide a timely and relevant snapshot of evolving market conditions.
Baker Hughes Incorporated supplies oilfield services, products, technology, and systems to the oil and natural gas industry worldwide. The company offers drilling and evaluation products and services, which comprise drill bits for performance drilling, hole enlargement, and coring; conventional and rotary steerable systems used to drill wells; measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling systems to perform reservoir navigation services; drilling optimization services; tools for coil tubing drilling and wellbore re-entry systems; coring drilling systems; surface logging; emulsion and water-based drilling fluids systems; reservoir drill-in fluids; and fluids environmental services.
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