NEO bio-entrepreneurs on the move

Bioscience entrepreneur Mike Burke is a huge supporter of the Northeast Ohio region. His company Trek Diagnostics is expanding its reach nationally with innovative new products in the microbiology space--blood culture and body fluids testing and more. From their site you can download technical papers, white papers, abstracts and more. And they're even offering professional continuing education credits for training in a couple of their detection systems.

Now Trek has introduced a newsletter, the Trek Times, full of updates on its products and services. That's where I learned they've installed a CRM system and are tracking their customers carefully--always a smart marketing move. Also found out they'd won a major contract with Novation to supply VHA Inc. and University Health System Consortium (UHC) with savings on Trek instrumentation.

Anyway, the newsletter is a good way to keep up with what one of NEO's most dedicated entrepreneurs is doing, and it's free to anyone who's interested. Visit their site and fill out the form here so they can keep you in the loop.

In partnership with two Cleveland organizations (ChanTest,Inc. of Cleveland and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine), another company run by bio-entrepreneur, Arnon Chait, called Analiza recently won part of the 4.7 million State-of-Ohio Third-Frontier dollars for a project to create new lines of cells for researching drugs that use ion channels (membrane proteins that have to do with electrical activity in cells) and may lead to new treatments for heart disease, epilepsy, diabetes, asthma and cancer.