BERLIN, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Painting Formerly in the Collection of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Unveiled

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More than 70 years after Düsseldorf art dealer, Max Stern, was forced to liquidate his art collection as a result of Nazi persecution, two more of his paintings were finally recovered by his heirs. The Max Stern Estate benefits three major universities (Concordia, McGill University/Montreal, and Hebrew University/Jerusalem) who are committed to recovering Stern's approximately 400 lost artworks. An event marking their return took place on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at the Berlin offices of the University of Toronto.

DUBLIN, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Software Addresses Important Unmet Need in Clinical Trials Using Echocardiography

ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR; ISIN:IE0005711209), a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that its Medical Imaging division has launched a new cardiac echocardiography analysis software solution. The software, MIRA-ECHO, enables cardiac echocardiography (ECHO) images to be viewed, measured and interpreted in clinical trials and is the latest addition to ICON Medical Imaging's proprietary MIRA(TM) (Medical Imaging Review and Analysis) platform.

LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Eighth Straight Year of Growth Yields GBP1.1 Million Profit for UK Market Leader

- AIM Listing Mooted for 2009

BIW Technologies, one of the world's leading providers of online construction project control software, increased its turnover by 27% per cent to GBP7.3 million in the year to 30 September 2008, with profits more than doubling to GBP1.1 million.

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A sustainability report made from recycled waste and embedded with wildflower seeds has won one of the world's most prestigious marketing prizes. Multinational Marketing Communications agency ElcaMedia (http://www.elcamedia.com) received 'Best of Category: Green Marketing' for its 'Green Book' - developed for one of their clients (Desso) - at the Marketing Effectiveness Awards 2008 of Summit International (SIA) (http://www.summitawards.com/content/blogcategory/72/309/).

PARIS, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Verizon Business' Professional Services Will Enable Certification of Monext's Processing System

Monext France (formerly Experian), a pioneer of e-commerce transactions, has entrusted Verizon Business Security Solutions to help the company's online bank-payment processing system meet industry standards for protecting confidential data.

Verizon Business provides professional services support and expertise to obtain Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification for Monext's processing system, Payline.

A portable test being developed by biodetection expert Stratophase could soon enable farmers and vets to accurately detect highly contagious diseases such as bovine TB and foot and mouth in the field, reducing false alarms and containment time and enabling remedial action to be taken more quickly.

A total of 2,030 cases of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) were confirmed in Great Britain between February and September 2001.* Millions of cows were slaughtered during the eradication programme and large swathes of the British countryside fenced off and declared out of bounds to the public for fear of further spread of the infection.

Stratophase is working with other British experts to develop a new detector system using immunoassay diagnosis - a biochemical test that detects

LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

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LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Portaltech Claims Two Awards and Were Finalists for a Further Four at the BCS IT Industry Awards 2008

LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Portaltech (http://www.portaltech.co.uk) is extremely pleased to announce their success at the 2008 British Computer Society IT Industry Awards. The company was short-listed for six awards in all and were announced as winners for Best SME Supplier and Best IT Consultant.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Diagnoplex, a developer of molecular cancer diagnostics today announced the closing of a Series A financing raising CHF10 million ($8.3 million). The A-round was led by Novartis Venture Fund and NeoMed, with Initiative Capital Romandie acting as co-investor. The Novartis Venture Fund was also a seed investor in the company. BCCC Avocats acted as counsel to the investors and BMP Associés acted as counsel to the company.

In connection with the financing, Anja König, Ph.D., a Managing Director of Novartis Venture Fund, and Thomas Goebel, Ph.D., a Principal at NeoMed, will join Diagnoplex' board of directors, while Claude Suard, Partner at DEFI Gestion, will join the board as an observer.

Public confidence in the honesty of scientists is being harmed by a small minority of researchers who behave badly, heard attendees of a meeting in Madrid on 17-18 November that was organized by the newly formed Research Integrity Forum of the European Science Foundation (ESF) in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).   The European research organizations agreed to work more closely to tackle the problem of fraud and other misconduct in science.

Fraud in science includes inventing data (fabrication), manipulating data to produce an unjustified result (falsification) or presenting the work of other researchers as one's own (plagiarism).