Interest: STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut is receiving almost $484,000 for economic development programs to help turn research ideas into jobs and business successes.
Interest: EAST LANSING, Mich.: Michigan State University announced Sept 9 that it has licensed cutting-edge software developed by Anil K. Jain that detects altered fingerprints to Morpho, part of the Safran group, one of the world's leading suppliers of identification and detection solutions.
Interest: Emerging patent wars in the tech industry have cost U.S. businesses more than $500 billion since 1990 as a result of smaller companies' patent lawsuits, says a Boston University survey, but the new America Invents Act may reverse the trend.
Interest: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Agile Sciences a $545,000 Phase I SBIR “SHIFT” Grant to support development of the Company’s proprietary Agilyte™ compounds to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections.
Interest: The National Institutes of Health granted UCF and the University of Florida money for their partnered science research study on hemophilia A and B. These were joint applications by Dr. Henry Daniell's, UCF, and Dr. Roland Herzog's, UF, labs for funding
Interest: Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that $17 million in research grants will be awarded to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the robust research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.
Interest: Three University of California Davis researchers have won awards from the National Institutes of Health worth a total of $8.9 million over five years.
Interest: DiscoveryBioMed Inc., a biotech company formerly at Innovation Depot, has won a $1.4 million grant to continue its research and development toward a drug to help cure cystic fibrosis.
Interest: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was selected to receive the lion’s share of $17.7 million in U.S. Department of Energy funds aimed at strengthening nuclear research projects at universities and colleges.
Interest: The 12 interdisciplinary research teams from 24 participating universities in the United States will focus on developing a novel switching mechanism utilizing innovations of nanoelectronics as a substitute for existing transistors.
Interest: Amid concerns about U.S. innovation and jobs, a new prize—being launched by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in concert with AAAS—will recognize successful university-based commercialization activities.
Interest: Bringing an end to a long history of bungled reform attempts, President Barack Obama today signed a sweeping reform bill into law that promises to change the system for determining priority for inventions at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Interest: The America Invents Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, is intended to speed up the patent review process, strengthen the quality of patents, and bring the United States in line with other countries by awarding a patent to the first inventor to apply for it.
Interest: President Barack Obama is expected to sign the new patent reform bill that was six years in the making, saying the legislation “will speed up the outdated patent process so that entrepreneurs can turn a new idea into a new business as quickly as possible,” according to the Associated Press.
Interest: BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sep 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DiscoveryBioMed, Inc. (DBM), a human cell-based drug discovery company, learned recently that its Cystic Fibrosis Corrector Ligand (CFCL) Drug Discovery program will be funded by the NIH.
Interest: AMHERST - The University of Massachusetts Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing has received a five year $20-million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue work it began when the center was first created five years ago.
Interest: A team of Baylor faculty from the mechanical engineering and chemistry and biochemistry departments has received a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation.
Interest: The department of engineering technology was awarded a $486,599 grant by the National Science Foundation’s Instrumentation for Materials Research program early this fall.
Interest: Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a process they developed that turns waste into inexpensive, green fuels.
Interest: President Obama announced a new Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that will bring together manufacturing companies, universities and the government to help create high-tech products that can be manufactured in former steel mills, an effort to help create jobs.
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