Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: http://www.newswise.com

Source: http://www.newswise.com

Interest: Stony Brook University has been selected among the first 21 teams for the inaugural class of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) awards, announced today by the National Science Foundation. I-Corps is a program designed to guide promising university research with commercial potential into the marketplace.

Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/stony-brook-university-receives-nsf-grant-for-water-remediation-technology

Author: http://www.kval.com

Source: http://www.kval.com

Interest: Faculty at Oregon State University, already among the nation’s leading four-year research universities, have set a sizable new institutional record in monthly contracts and grants, earning nearly $42 million in September.

Link: http://www.kval.com/news/local/131291219.html

Author: http://www.marketwatch.com

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

Interest: SolarBridge Technologies (SolarBridge), a leading provider of PV microinverter solutions, has been awarded a $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/solarbridge-technologies-wins-us-department-of-energy-arpa-e-grant-2011-10-07

Author: http://news.cnet.com

Source: http://news.cnet.com

Interest: Political furor over the Solyndra bankruptcy has dealt a body blow to the idea that the government should try to help clean tech start-ups through the costly "valley of death" to commercial viability.

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20117352-54/solyndra-casts-shadow-on-u.s-energy-loan-aid/

Author: Jocelyn Kaiser

Source: http://news.sciencemag.org

Interest: Grant success rates at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appear to have plunged to an all-time low in 2011. ScienceInsider has learned that an early estimate from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) puts the success rate for research grants at 17.4% for the fiscal year that ended 30 September.

Link: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/10/nih-grant-success-rate-likely.html?ref=hp

Author: Tracey Drury

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com

Interest: The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will share in $4.3 million in grants through a SUNY-wide research network.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2011/10/07/ub-shares-in-43m-of-federal-grants.html

Author: http://www.gazettetimes.com

Source: http://www.gazettetimes.com

Interest: Oregon State University earned $42 million in external contracts and grants during September, a record for the university, OSU said Thursday in a press release.

Link: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_7c02a02c-f0a5-11e0-854d-001cc4c002e0.html

Author: http://www.annarbor.com

Source: http://www.annarbor.com

Interest: U-M President Mary Sue Coleman said this morning that startups would be eligible to receive up to $500,000 apiece from the university after they’ve secured venture capital from a separate private source.

Link: http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/university-of-michigan-plans-to-invest-in-its-own-startup-companies-mary-sue-coleman-says/

Author: Katherine Lymn

Source: Katherine Lymn

Interest: The HIV drug Ziagen was a prime example of what commercializing research — called “tech transfer” — can mean for a university. Ziagen, which prevents the HIV virus from reproducing, has made the University and inventor Robert Vince a combined $524 million since 1999.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2011/10/06/u-heads-‘patent-cliff’

Author: http://www.prnewswire.com

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com

Interest: The University of Southern California announced today that a partnership led by Caltech, UCLA and USC have been selected to receive a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a national business plan competition for young cleantech entrepreneurs.

Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southern-california-universities-unite-to-produce-cleantech-businesses-131175938.html

Author: http://www.genomeweb.com/

Source: http://www.genomeweb.com/

Interest: NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Insight Genetics has received a $193,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a companion diagnostic test, the molecular diagnostics company said today.

Link: http://www.genomeweb.com/mdx/insight-genetics-snags-193k-nci-sbir-grant-develop-cdx-alk-resistance

Author: http://www.businessweek.com

Source: http://www.businessweek.com

Interest: Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Congress must keep its pledge to let the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have control over all the fees it collects to promote innovation and spur job creation, university leaders and corporate executives said today.

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-05/congress-must-ensure-patent-office-funds-university-leaders-say.html

Author: http://wallacesfarmer.com

Source: http://wallacesfarmer.com

Interest: An Iowa State University-led group will get $25 million of $136 million in federal grants that will go to five universities to develop transportation and aviation biofuels made from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources.

Link: http://wallacesfarmer.com/story.aspx/isu-gets-25m-as-part-of-new-biofuel-program-9-53679

Author: Alex Philippidis

Source: http://www.genengnews.com

Interest: The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has been surviving on the same $2 billion per year budget since its authorization ended in fiscal 2008 thanks to three years of temporary spending fixes.

Link: http://www.genengnews.com/analysis-and-insight/majority-investor-owned-small-businesses-could-rock-the-boat-for-sbir-participants/77899467/

Author: http://www.pharmabiz.com

Source: http://www.pharmabiz.com

Interest: The US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) announced the awards of three grants to boost the development and availability of medical devices for children.

Link: http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=65410&sid=2

Author: Meghan Sapp

Source: http://biofuelsdigest.com

Interest: In California, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded almost $14 million in grant money from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy division of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Link: http://biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2011/10/05/lawrence-berkeley-lab-lands-nearly-14m-in-arpa-e-grants/

Author: Emily Hartman

Source: http://www.eurekalert.org

Interest: First National Institutes of Health-funded personalized drug development center in the U.S. will focus on muscle disease New Center of Research Translation awarded to Children's National Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carolinas Medical Center to accelerate R&D.

Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/cnmc-fnp100511.php

Author: Sarah Carpenter

Source: http://www.easternprogress.com

Interest: Two Eastern faculty members recently received sizeable grants to help them in their individual research projects.

Link: http://www.easternprogress.com/news/two-faculty-members-receive-research-grants-1.2631811#.To2KtlYa5iM

Author: Kolten Parker

Source: http://star.txstate.edu

Interest: Texas State’s push to become an emerging research university has been spearheaded by six departments receiving eight research grants since the end of the spring semester.

Link: http://star.txstate.edu/node/4730

Author: Tom Holm

Source: http://www.montanakaimin.com

Interest: Argument about the effects of a woody biomass gasification boiler on the Missoula Valley's air quality will continue Thursday just after the University of Montana secured a grant to study the new technology.

Link: http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/um-wins-grant-to-research-biomass-1.2633600#.To2H7lYa5iM