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Touro Medical School officials, Dr.Mitchell Forman, Dr. Mahboob Qureshi and Dr. Fred Schaller, will be the featured speakers of NevBio’s Dec 11 meeting at McCormick & Schmicks. The representatives will discuss the history of Touro and why the college chose its Nevada location. They will also address the need to train more doctors in Nevada.

December 11th -Thurs-Meeting at McCormick & Schmicks

335 Hughes Center Drive
Cost: $35 includes lunch

RSVP: jlaub@regenmd.org or 839-7222

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Most American drivers realize they’re going to have to trade their mean machines for green machines somewhere down the road, sacrificing performance for economy.

Gasoline prices have receded to $2 a gallon, down from a peak of more than $4 during the summer, but nobody believes they’re going to stay there.Crowds gathered around the Passion Cabriolet Smart car Friday at the Motor Trend International Auto Show in Las Vegas, squeezing into the two-seater that gets 33 miles a gallon in the city and 41 on the highway from a three-cylinder, 70-horsepower engine. The Motor Trend International Auto Show showcased the latest in fuel-saving technology along its Green Trail. Some 25 models boasted fuel mileage of better than 30 miles a gallon on the highway. Read full story:

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The solar age is dawning, but the executive of a power producer believes the continuing creditcrisis will cloud prospects for new projects for an indefinite period.

Renewable-energy projects that aren’t already funded will stall until the credit freeze thaws, Michael Allman, chief executive officer of San Diego-based Sempra Generation, an affiliate of San Diego Gas & Electric, said in an interview last week. However, Sempra’s 10-megawatt, photovoltaic project in Boulder City’s Eldorado Valley has been under construction since July and will start generating electricity this month. The power plant will be fully operational by the end of the year, Allman said. It is adjacent to Sempra Generation’s gas-fired, 480-megawatt El Dorado Energy plant.

Sempra Generation is negotiating with two unidentified utilities with the expectation one will buy all of the plant’s output, he said. Read full story:

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Michael Beardslee is president and co-founder of IT Strategies, a Las Vegas-based information technology company.

Beardslee and his partner, Michael Marriott, founded the company 12 years ago, when information technology in Las Vegas was behind the national curve. Since then, IT Strategies has installed integrated systems and provided support for a wide range of businesses in the valley including casinos and municipal governments. Beardslee talked to In Business about how the information technology industry has become an integral part of the local economy. Read full interview:

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“Pre-empted: Will The Supreme Court Gut Product Defect Claims Against Drugs Approved By The FDA?”

Find Out at a Joint Meeting with NevBio & Boyd School of Law - Intellectual Property Law Society

Kelly Evans, Esq., Snell & Wilmer

Monday-November 24th
UNLV’s Boyd School Law Bldg Room 102
12:30 PM - Lunch & Lecture ($20)
UNLV at 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154
Please RSVP at 702-839-7222 or e-mail jlaub@regenmd.org

Kelly Evans, Partner at Snell & Wilmer, will be discussing the case of Wyeth v. Levine that was argued at the Supreme Court on November 3, 2008. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Wyeth in the Levine case then it may result in the preemption of a broad category of mass tort pharma cases that have recently resulted in huge verdicts against pharma companies (i.e. Vioxx). This is a closely watched case for both the pharmaceutical and legal industries.

Kelly Evans is a partner at Snell & Wilmer where his practice is focused on product liability defense, employment, and intellectual property litigation. His product liability litigation focuses on defending automotive and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Kelly’s employment litigation practice includes representing employers in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, and contractual matters. His intellectual property litigation concentrates on unfair competition, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and trademark and patent infringement. Kelly has extensive experience in state and federal court, and before administrative agencies.

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