Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: JoAnn Sperber

Source: http://www.eurekalert.org

Interest: Bethesda, MD—A team of Federal and university scientists reports a breakthrough in the development of an effective therapy against a deadly virus, Hendra virus.

Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/hmjf-srm101911.php

Author: Ed Tate

Source: http://news.rutgers.edu

Interest: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers has established a “Disruptive Innovation Fund” through an agreement signed this week with IP Navigation Group of Dallas, which has committed up to $1 million to support commercialization of technologies developed at the university.

Link: http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2011/10/rutgers-university-c-20111012

Author: Elizabeth Fernandez

Source: http://www.ucsf.edu

Interest: The study was funded by two Small Business Innovative Research grants totaling $1.1 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — part of the National Institutes of Health.

Link: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/10/10802/computer-games-help-people-parkinsons-disease

Author: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com

Interest: The University of Washington confirms it was fined $10,893 this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after a primate died during laboratory research in 2009.

Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016540908_primate19m.html

Author: http://medicine.buffalo.edu

Source: http://medicine.buffalo.edu

Interest: The UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is a key collaborator on $4.3 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support neuroscience and pediatric vision research.

Link: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/news_and_events/news.host.html/content/shared/smbs/news/2011/10/nih-suny-reach-grants-068.detail.html

Author: http://westernfarmpress.com

Source: http://westernfarmpress.com

Interest: University of California researchers will receive more than $6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2011 Specialty Crop Block Grant program, which is intended to enhance agricultural markets, address environmental concerns, protect plant health, provide farmers with scientifically tested production techniques and increase food safety.

Link: http://westernfarmpress.com/government/uc-forefront-specialty-crop-research

Author: Alisha Azevedo

Source: http://www.dailycal.org

Interest: As UC Berkeley awaits a verdict on whether the federal government will pay a greater portion of its indirect costs of research this year, the campus finds itself at a disadvantage compared to private research universities.

Link: http://www.dailycal.org/2011/10/19/uc-berkeley-lags-competitors-in-recovering-costs-of-research/

Author: Alex Philippidis

Source: http://www.nsba.biz

Interest: Return of companies majority-owned by venture capital firms, hedge funds, or private equity firms among key amendments.

Link: http://www.nsba.biz/docs/sbir_gen_eng_news_10_4_11.pdf

Author: http://news.rutgers.edu

Source: http://news.rutgers.edu

Interest: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is awarding up to $35 million to a pharmaceutical technology institute working to advance drug manufacturing.

Link: http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/special-content/fall-2011/fda-awards-10-univer-20111006

Author: http://ns.umich.edu

Source: http://ns.umich.edu

Interest: ANN ARBOR, Mich.—In a rare move for a university, the University of Michigan will for the first time directly invest in its own startup businesses, President Mary Sue Coleman announced today.

Link: http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8594

Author: Andy Henion

Source: http://news.msu.edu

Interest: EAST LANSING, Mich. — As Michigan attempts to transform its manufacturing-based economy, Michigan State University will create a pioneering economic development center that focuses on new ways of generating businesses and jobs.

Link: http://news.msu.edu/story/9872/

Author: Mary Maxon and Mike Stebbins

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov

Interest: On September 16, President Obama announced that his Administration will develop a National Bioeconomy Blueprint detailing Administration-wide steps to harness biological research innovations to address national challenges in health, food, energy, and the environment. Biological research underpins the foundation of a significant portion of the Nation’s economy.

Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/12/building-bioeconomy

Author: http://www.technologytransfertactics.com

Source: http://www.technologytransfertactics.com

Interest: Farther south, Arizona State University’s Venture Catalyst, in collaboration with ASU’s technology transfer arm, Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), is launching a program aimed at creating start-up activity among postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

Link: http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2011/10/12/asu-launches-rapid-start-up-school-for-postdocs-grad-students/

Author: Kristen Bole

Source: http://www.ucsf.edu

Interest: Biophysicist Adam Abate, PhD, showed up seven months late to his new faculty position at UCSF with an unusual excuse: he was busy setting up the technology for a new company based on one of the 10 patents he had received as a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University.

Link: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/09/10686/qb3-startup-box-helps-uc-entrepreneurs-launch-companies

Author: http://www.politico.com

Source: http://www.politico.com

Interest: If you want to see how American communities can reinvent themselves to compete in today’s global economy, just walk through downtown Pittsburgh. Once abandoned steel plants now house a thriving cluster of innovative robotics companies.

Link: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65636.html

Author: http://www.theitem.com

Source: http://www.theitem.com

Interest: Shawn Youngstedt , an exercise science professor, is sharing a $3.7 million National Institutes of Health grant with researchers at three other universities to find out how much sleep -- or how little -- older people need to remain healthy.

Link: http://www.theitem.com/business/article_85585388-f64a-11e0-9238-001cc4c002e0.html

Author: http://www.newswise.com

Source: http://www.newswise.com

Interest: Newswise — The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to a team lead by University of Virginia computer scientist David Evans for a project to develop privacy-preserving technologies

Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/u-va-team-awarded-3-million-nsf-secure-computation-grant

Author: Lori Valigra

Source: http://www.masshightech.com

Interest: The grant is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) II grant that will help fund the development of an automated, high-throughput, high-pressure system, including instruments and consumables, for safe and accurate processing of pathogenic organisms such as viruses and bacteria.

Link: http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/10/10/daily56-DOD-awards-grant-to-Pressure-BioSciences.html

Author: Kent Hoover

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com

Interest: Angel investors provided $8.9 billion in funding to 26,300 entrepreneurial ventures in the first half of 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/print-edition/2011/10/14/angel-investments-startup-capital.html

Author: Rosibel Ochoa, Geert Schmid-Schonbein & John Rodenrys

Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com

Interest: Would you be surprised if a researcher at a top U.S. university discovered a breakthrough for a medical problem that kills 215,000 people a year but couldn’t find funding to commercialize the discovery? You wouldn’t if you’d ever heard of the “Valley of Death.”

Link: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/14/one-road-out-valley-death/