News Releases

HudsonAlpha Hires Director of Research Affairs
Chris Gunter to support scientific staff and research programs
May 6, 2008 Huntsville, Ala. - Dr. Chris Gunter will join the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology as director of research affairs. This new position provides broad support for HudsonAlpha’s existing and emerging research programs, particularly focusing on federal research funding and outreach to the scientific community.
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Hoover High School Science Teacher Named HudsonAlpha Educator in Residence
Jennifer Carden eager to expand students’ horizons
April 24, 2008 Huntsville, Ala. - Jennifer Carden, a genetics teacher at Hoover High School in Hoover, Ala., has been named the first HudsonAlpha Biotechnology Educator in Residence.
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University of Alabama Team Earns HudsonAlpha Innovation Prize
Tuscaloosa-based professors receive inaugural award
April 24, 2008 Huntsville, Ala. - For their groundbreaking research on diseases of the nervous system, especially in relation to Parkinson’s disease, the husband and wife team of Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell has been awarded the first HudsonAlpha Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences.
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HudsonAlpha Announces Center for Public Health and Food Safety
Huntsville-based center to have global scope
April 4, 2008 Huntsville, Ala. - Researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will soon be working with fellow scientists from around the country and the world in developing technologies and products to improve public health and food safety. The recently established Genomic Technology Center for Public Health and Food Safety at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will bring together food and biotech industries, government agencies and academic scientists to apply advanced genomic technologies in developing effective solutions for detecting and monitoring foodborne pathogens and other public threats such as tuberculosis and encephalitis.
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Dr. Jian Han Signs on as Principal Investigator
Founder of Genaco to study links between early infections and late onset diseases
For many, profitably developing and selling a company like Genaco Biomedical Products to the world’s largest molecular diagnosis company would constitute adequate professional achievement for a lifetime. But Genaco founder Dr. Jian Han is ready for more as the first principal investigator to sign on at HudsonAlpha.
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HudsonAlpha Announces Life Sciences Prize
Salutes contributions by university researchers
December 3, 2007 Huntsville, Ala. - The board of directors of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is introducing a new vehicle to spotlight bioscience achievement in Alabama.  The HudsonAlpha Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences will award $20,000 to a current faculty member or staff scientist at one of Alabama’s six research universities.  “In addition to recognizing exceptional talent and research of superior merit,” noted Lonnie McMillian, chairman of the HudsonAlpha board, “the prize is intended to raise awareness of biotechnology’s burgeoning impact on the state’s economic vitality.”
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HudsonAlpha Celebrates Opening of Associates Wing
Twelve companies to lease space
November 9, 2007 Huntsville, Ala. - With a tenant list that grew from six, to eight and finally twelve resident companies, Jim Hudson, president of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, announced the Associates Wing of the institute is at capacity while noting that additional building on the CRP Biotech Campus could be on the near horizon. The announcement was made during today’s ribbon-cutting ceremonies that celebrated the completion of the first wing of the institute. The atrium and institute researchers’ wing will be completed during the first quarter of next year.
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Head of Stanford Human Genome Center to Lead HudsonAlpha
September 12, 2007 Huntsville, Ala. - Governor Bob Riley announced today that Dr. Richard Myers, professor and chair of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Stanford Human Genome Center, has accepted the position of director of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Myers will transition from a consulting role over the next year before assuming the full-time position next fall. During the transition period he will continue as professor at Stanford and head of the Stanford Human Genome Center.
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HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Appoints Director of Educational Outreach
August 21, 2006 Huntsville, Ala.
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HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Ground Breaking Starts Countdown to Opening
January 19, 2006 Huntsville, Ala.
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HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and Epitomics Announce an Intended Collaboration
September 1, 2005 Huntsville, Ala.
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