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This article by Barbara Fox was prepared for the March 5, 2003 edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
On the Move
Mordechai Rozanski is the new president of Rider University,
effective August 1. He is now serving as president of the University
of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Guelph was rated as the best overall
comprehensive university in Canada in 1999 and in 2002 by Maclean’s,
Canada’s national news magazine. The school received high marks for
the quality of its entering first-year students, its student support
programs, and its graduation rate.
Rozanski holds a bachelor’s degree in history from McGill University
(Class of 1968) and a Ph.D. in Chinese history/American-East Asian
Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Lily
Fellow at Stanford and an American-East Relations Fellow at Columbia
University.
Prior to his tenure at Guelph, Rozanski was provost at Wagner College.
From 1986 to 1991, he was an administrator at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, serving first as dean of liberal arts and then as provost
and vice president of academic affairs.
Rozanski will be the 138-year-old college’s sixth president, following
J. Barton Luedeke, who held the position for 13 years. “His style
is participatory,” says Paul Lang, the faculty head of the search
committee, “and he will involve the campus community in the planning
process. Guelph’s endowment has grown by some $100 million during
his tenure.”
Rider University, 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville08648. 609-896-5000; fax, 609-895-5681. Home page: www.rider.eduTop Of PageExpansionsTris Pharma, 2033 Route 130 South, Suite D, MonmouthJunction 08852. Ketan Mehta, president. 732-940-2800; fax, 609-392-8022.Www.trispharma.comThe biotechnology company expects to move this month from incubatorspace at the Trenton Business and Technology Center at 36 South BroadStreet to 10,000 square feet Route 130 South. A $550,000 loan fromCommerce Bank, half guaranteed by the New Jersey Economic DevelopmentAuthority, is helping to fund the move, which was delayed by the snow.It works on platform technologies for drug development and technologyto solve solubility and absorption problems (U.S. 1, May 8, 2002)and has 10 employees now.Mehta plans to employ some 20 scientists within two years. It workswith pharmaceutical companies with products in the development stage,and with companies with existing products that cannot easily be absorbedor that must be administered by injection or by pills so large thatthey are hard to swallow.Drugs designed by combinatorial chemistry and computer modeling, hesays, often end up with in molecules that are much like the body’sown molecules and are very poorly absorbed. Often this results inlarge, hard-to-swallow pills. Tris’ contribution, says Mehta, “isa fundamental knowledge of what you do to these molecules to reachthe site, to go through the GI tract and achieve the desired levelsin the blood.” Tris will license marketing rights to its patentedtechnology to pharmaceutical companies against milestone paymentsand royalty on net sales.Lathian Systems, 2 Walnut Grove Drive, Suite 200,Horsham 19044. V. Brewster Jones, CEO. 215-323-9696; fax, 215-323-9694.Home page: www.lathian.comIn December Lathian Systems expanded from 821 Alexander Road to largerquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania, and it increased its staff sizefrom 14 to 15.The company was founded three years ago as MyDrugRep.com by Quan X.Pham, a former Marine helicopter pilot. It offers technology-basedsales and marketing for the life science industry (U.S. 1, May 20,2002). Charging a per-doctor interaction fee, it packages sales messagesfor doctors to watch on their own computers. It also gives the drugcompanies some online collaboration tools to help develop the messagesin a speedy fashion. The name change to Lathian was for the purposeof broadening its potential client base.Laserspeed, 15K Princess Road, Lawrenceville 08648.Jack Ruden, president. 609-895-8500; fax, 609-895-8801.On February 21 Jack Ruden moved his company from 2,200 square feetat 55 Princeton Hightstown Road to Princess Road in Lawrenceville.Phone and fax are new. The company offers new & remanufactured tonercartridges, repair services, and copy and printer supplies.Top Of PageStart-UpsQuakerbridge Computer Services, 4044 QuakerbridgeRoad, Lawrenceville 08648. Bob DiMaggio, manager. 609-588-4442; fax,609-588-4446.Highland Computer Center has been sold, and its location is now thehome of Quakerbridge Computer Services. It sells IBM-compatible computers.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesInsurance Services International (ISI), 186 PrincetonHightstown Road, Building 3A, West Windsor 08540. Howard L. Kravitz,president. 609-716-0400; fax, 609-716-1135.Last year the insurance brokers left leased space from InternationalSchool Services on Roszel Road and moved to the Dataram Center. Phoneand fax are new. It does employee benefits, property and casualtyinsuranceMercer County HIV Consortium, 1018 Hamilton Avenue,Trenton 08629. Carrie Meyer, consortium coordinator. 609-278-9555;fax, 609-278-0553.Last year the Mercer County HIV Consortium moved from 447 BellevueAvenue to Hamilton Avenue, and three people work here now. It offerscomprehensive services to meet identified care and treatment needsof individuals affected by HIV disease.Mercer County Republican Committee, 1351 KuserRoad, Suite 5, Hamilton 08619. Phil Angarone Jr., chairman. 609-585-1499;fax, 609-585-4399. E-mail: MercerGOP@aol.comHome page: www.mercergop.comThe county Republicans moved on February 21 from 233 Whitehorse MercervilleRoad to 1351 Kuser Road. Phone and fax are new.Regal Computer Systems Inc., 145 Witherspoon Street,Princeton 08542. Ashwin Reddy, business manager. 609-921-7676; fax,609-921-8166. E-mail: regalsys@idt.net. Home page: www.regalsys.comThe software consulting firm went from 947 Route 206 to 145 WitherspoonStreet last month. Phone and fax are the same. It has about 70 consultantson contract to major corporations. “We were in one of the fewbuildings on State Road that did not have a high speed Internet connection,so we decided to get that and to move closer to town,” says AshwinReddy, business manager of the eight-year-old firm.Top Of PageDown-SizingMohrman/Scott Associates Inc., 634 Arena Drive,Suite 205, Hamilton 08618. Jeffrey Scott, president. 609-888-3818;fax, 609-888-3819. E-mail: jscott@mohrmanscott.comHome page:www.mohrman-scott.comThe pharmaceutical marketing research firm moved from 1,500 squarefeet at 2681 Princeton Pike to 1,000 feet on Arena Drive. Phone andfax are new.Bloomberg Personal Finance, 100 Business Park Drive,Box 888, Princeton 08542-0888. 609-279-4661; Home page: www.bloomberg.com/personalBloomberg has removed itself from the magazine publishing business.It closed that department, and February was the last issue for itsmagazine. The book publishing department remains.Encore Graphics Inc.. 732-846-7811.Encore Graphics has been sold and has a new telephone number. Thecurrent owner declines to provide information about the new address.The previous address was 1901 Route 130 in North Brunswick. It isa service bureau that does typography, DTP, media conversion, andimagesetting.AON Corp. (AON), 5 Independence Way, Princeton08540. Beth Murphy, office manager. 609-720-9770; fax, 609-720-1135.E-mail: Beth_Murphy@aon.comHome page: www.aon.comLast fall this branch of the global firm moved from 1 IndependenceWay to 5 Independence Way. AON owned both offices but sold the spaceat 1 Independence Way to GE. Based in Chicago, it provides consultingservices to the insurance and reinsurance industry and houses thesegroups: risk service, underwriting, and actuarial groups.Newgrange Educational Outreach Center, 407 NassauStreet at Cedar Lane, Princeton 08540. Gordon Sherman PhD, executivedirector. 609-688-1280; fax, 609-430-3030. E-mail: info@thenewgrange.org.Home page: www.thenewgrange.orgLast year Newgrange School’s outreach center moved from ForrestalVillage to 407 Nassau Street and has six full-time employees pluspart-timers. It offers programs for people with learning disabilities.Newgrange has a school facility on South Olden Avenue in Trenton.Top Of PageLeaving TownMorpace Pharma Group Ltd., 200 Baker Avenue, Suite204, Concord 01742. Robert G. Schumaker, managing director, NorthAmerica sales & marketing. 978-759-1000; fax, 978-759-1099. Homepage: www.morpacepharma.comThe New Jersey sales and research office of the Morpace Pharma Grouphas closed at 1230 Parkway Avenue in West Trenton. Mail can be sentto headquarters in Massachusetts, and there are offices in Baltimore,Boston, Brussels, Detroit, and London. The parent company is MorpaceInternational Inc., in Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan.The group was working on proprietary disease models linking patientsubpopulations, medical decision making, and clinical/commercial opportunitiesfor pharmaceuticals and biotechs.Novazyme/Glycobiology Research Institute, 800 ResearchParkway, Suite 200, Oklahoma City OK 73104. John Crowley, CEO. 405-271-8144;fax, 405-271-1030. Home page: www.novazyme.comJohn Crowley closed Novazyme’s 353 Nassau Street office at the endof December, and phone calls are being forwarded to the GlycobiologyResearch Institute in Oklahoma. Novazyme had been bought by Genzyme,located at 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617-252-7500; fax,617-252-7600. Crowley’s company was searching for cures for Pompe’sDisease — two of his children had this diagnosis. A 1989 graduateof Georgetown, he has a law degree from Notre Dame and a Harvard MBAand had worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb.Pharm Health Alliance Inc., 14 Thomas Rhodes IndustrialDrive, Suite B, Mercerville 08619.Pharm Health Alliance has closed at this location and has no othertelephone number in the area. It worked on marketing research andstrategies, statistical analysis, clinical studies, communicationsstrategies, and product development.Phase Forward Incorporated, 1440 Main Street, Waltham02451-1623. 888-703-1122; fax, 781-890-4848. Home page: www.phaseforward.comAfter two years here this clinical research organization has closedits Princeton office at Crossroads Corporate Center (3150 BrunswickPike). The company has its North American headquarters in Massachusetts.It works on Internet-based clinical research services, solutions foraccelerating global pharmaceutical development to conduct and manageclinical trials to deliver quality data, faster database lock, andfaster time-to-peak sales for approved products.Terra Vac/CES, 241 Norsam Drive, Langhorne 19047.Joseph Pezzullo, vice president. 215-741-6123; fax, 215-741-6124.Home page: www.terravac.comThe environmental remediation firm has moved from 6,000 square feetat Windsor Industrial Park to Pennsylvania but might return to anotherlocation in the Route 1 corridor, says Joe Pezzullo, president ofCES.Terra Vac was founded in 1984 and co-owned Washington State-basedCurrent Environmental Solutions (CES). The other owner was the BattelleMemorial Institute, operators of the U.S. Department of Energy’s PacificNorthwest Laboratory. Terra Vac bought out Battelle, so CES is a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Terra Vac, says Pezullo.The company’s Six Phase Heating technique was recently featured onWorld Business Review, a television series hosted by Alexander Haig.For this soil remediation technique, electrodes are put into the subsurfaceand connected to a power supply unit that heats the groundwater andsoil. The contaminated soil and water boils out into steam and iscaptured by vapor extraction wells, which are connected to a vacuumextractor and condenser. Then they are cooled and treated.CD-Archive Inc., 1239 Parkway Avenue, Box 77131,Trenton 08628. Ward Wettlind, owner. 609-882-8988; fax, 609-771-1168.E-mail: cdarchive@erols.comWww.cdarchive.comThe digital document storage business has closed on Parkway Avenue.No telephone number is listed, and the web page is not active.Cochran Travel, 11 East Trenton Avenue, Building3A Suite 104, Morrisville 19067. 215-493-3696; fax, 215-493-3696.At least partly in response to the new corporate tax on businesses,the travel agency moved from South Broad Street last year. “Wedidn’t feel it was in our best interest to stay in New Jersey,”says proprietor Andrew Cochran.Intellispace, 111 South Independence Mall East,Philadelphia 19106. Mike Riley, general manager, mid-Atlantic region.215-922-5830; fax, 215-922-1910. Home page: www.intellispace.netIntellispace has combined its Princeton office at HQ in ForrestalVillage with its Philadelphia office. Headquartered in New York, withclients in the United States and Europe, the eight-year-old firm isa broadband, ultra high-speed Internet provider with data servicessuch as E-mail, firewalls, storage, and web hosting. (U.S. 1, February21, 2001).Micro Enterprises NJ, Home page: www.microe.comThe Chicory Lane office of this company closed in Pennington and leftno forwarding telephone number, but the headquarters of the companyis at 1004 Rana Villa Avenue, Camp Hill PA 17011, 717-737-5335; fax,717-737-4712. It offers wireless technology including IT solutionsand phone systems — installation of voice and data cabling forsmall and medium-sized businesses.Quest America Inc., Home page: www.questam.comQuest America, a global firm, closed its Emmons Drive office lastyear. The office worked on Oracle applications, ERP and CRM implementations,migrations and upgrades, database administration, and report writing.Top Of PageName ChangesPowertec Group of Enertec, 4200 Wildwood Parkway,Atlanta 30339. Henry Stueber, business leader. 678-844-5967. Homepage: www.powertec.comWhen George Chirco sold his business to GE it was supposed to be retainingits name. Now Chirco is a lead salesman based in GE’s Atlanta office.Click on Powertec’s former website and it goes to GE’s website. Powertecoffered web-based automated metering and testing systems for electricutility substations as well as automation tools for nuclear facilities.Top Of PageStock NewsCovance Inc. (CVD), 206 Carnegie Center, Princeton08540-6681. Chris Kuebler, CEO. 609-452-8550; fax, 609-452-9854. E-mail:info@covance.comHome page: www.covance.comAfter global workforce cutbacks from 7,200 people to 6,900, Covance— a clinical research organization — will repurchase fivepercent (three million shares) of its own stock. It had net revenueslast year of $883 million, up from $732 million in 2001, and it operatesin 17 countries.Top Of PageDeathsPeter Laird Vielbig, 32, on February 19. The son of Peterand Gail Vielbig, he was a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute.Eula R. Carson, 93, on February 19. She had been a staffmember at the Nassau Club.Donna J. Geer, 50, on February 21. She was a systems analystat IBM.Andrew Dingwall, 75, on February 24. An inventor, he hadworked at RCA Laboratories and created the first microprocessor usedin automobiles.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
