Interest: Northern Technologies International Corporation NTIC -0.14% announced today that it has been awarded a Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (DoD-SBIR) Phase II grant of $500,000 for the development of biobased and marine biodegradable non-plastic bags.
Interest: A new federal grant aims to make the University of Utah home to first-in-the-nation transit buses of the future — electric shuttles that recharge without wires from underground pads while they wait for passengers.
Interest: The creation of Allied Minds Devices LLC, a new subsidiary of Allied Minds Inc. will offer a unique focus on developing medical devices originating from U.S. universities and federally funded research institutions.
Interest: GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK) today announced the launch of the GSK Canada Life Sciences Innovation Fund, a new national $50 million fund that will significantly advance the commercialization of scientific innovation in Canada by investing in early stage breakthrough research.
Interest: The University of New South Wales has decided to open a significant chunk of its patent pool to outsiders for free, in a strategy called Easy Access IP.
Interest: In San Diego, Connect is the non-profit organization that reaches into most corners of the local innovation community. Connect likes to say that it has assisted in the formation of more than 3,000 technology and life sciences companies in the area, and more than 50 cities around the world have emulated its programs for mentoring entrepreneurs and supporting startups.
Interest: The NIH has awarded Kensey Nash Corporation a two-year, $1.9 million Phase II SBIR grant to further investigate the use of a bioadhesive surgical mesh for applications in tendon repair procedures.
Interest: Venture capital investment in Ohio companies surged by 81 percent in 2010 over the recession-scarred previous year, far outpacing the 20 percent national rebound, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.
Interest: Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center have received a 5-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study brain development in teens, ages 12-18, with Bulimia Nervosa.
Interest: Labcyte, a global life science instrumentation company, has secured $196K funding from the National Cancer Institute under National Institute of Health (NIH), for cancer biomarker validation program with the Canary Center of Stanford University.
Interest: A Purdue Research Park-based company has received a $500,000 SBIR Phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop technology that enhances hands-on science learning for students affected by blindness and low vision.
Interest: University of California, Davis, is launching a new interdisciplinary institute devoted to education, research and outreach in innovation and entrepreneurship, with the help of a $5 million commitment from alumni Mike and Renee Child.
Interest: Ann Arbor-based Arboretum Ventures, Cambridge, Mass.-based Flagship Ventures, Pennsylvania-based Osage Ventures and several private individuals invested in Tangent, which has a small operation on Parkland Plaza south of Jackson Road.
Interest: “Businesses partnering with the Research Centers have raised more than $20 million in financing to commercialize research results,” states Mel Ustad, Director of Commercialization for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
Interest: A Washington State University Vancouver scientist who is studying hearing has received a grant from a Defense Department agency that funds high-risk/high-payoff research.
Interest: Particle characterization using the Zetasizer Nano is a growing area of demand among a whole arsenal of research methods available for use at the Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA.
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