Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu

Source: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu

Interest: UC Davis will receive $3.1 million of a $40 million biofuels grant announced today (Sept. 28) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Led by researchers at the University of Washington, the five-year project is intended to expand what has been a Midwest-centric biofuels industry into Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana and Northern California.

Link: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10028

Author: http://www.csbsju.edu

Source: http://www.csbsju.edu

Interest: The chemistry department at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University was recently awarded a $42,500 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will be used to support chemistry undergraduate research during the summer of 2012.

Link: http://www.csbsju.edu/News/Chemistry-grant-9-11.htm

Author: Frank Vinluan

Source: medcitynews.com

Interest: Bacteria-fighting technology of Agile Sciences that could find new applications treating wound infections has won the company a $545,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Link: http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/09/n-c-biotech-agile-sciences-lands-545k-nih-grant-for-anti-bacterial-technology/

Author: Sarah Schmid

Source: xconomy.com

Interest: Wayne State University announced last week that one of its professors, Dr. Aloke Dutta, has received a $2.1 million grant for his work researching drugs that ease symptoms caused by Parkinson’s Disease.

Link: http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2011/09/26/nih-awards-2-1m-grant-for-parkinsons-research-at-wsu/

Author: weill.cornell.edu.

Source: weill.cornell.edu.

Interest: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $5.5 million Transformative Research Project (T-R01) Award to fund research into risk factors for spina bifida and related congenital defects in which an area of the affected baby's spine or brain is not fully enclosed.

Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/nih-awards-5-5-million-grant-to-weill-cornell-for-research-into-preventing-spina-bifida

Author: NHLBI Communications

Source: nih.gov

Interest: Researchers found that asthma patients who have two copies of a specific gene variant responded only one-third as well to steroid inhalers as those with two copies of the regular gene.

Link: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2011/nhlbi-26.htm

Author: genengnews.com

Source: genengnews.com

Interest: Afraxis will partner with the NIH under its Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Disease (TRND) program to further development of its preclinical candidates for fragile X syndrome.

Link: http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/afraxis-joins-nih-s-therapeutics-for-rare-and-neglected-disease-program/81245733/

Author: thenewsherald.com

Source: thenewsherald.com

Interest: President Barack Obama’s signing of the America Invents Act — the first overhaul of U.S. patent law in 60 years — will help University of Michigan scientists as the patent system will be more predictable and efficient, university officials said.

Link: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2011/09/25/news/doc4e7fe2dfde8d5267137428.txt

Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Source: therepublic.com

Interest: The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://bit.ly/nPI03N ) that the National Science Foundation awarded Ashton Hamme nearly $1 million for the project, called JSU-RISE.

Link: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/a62294cae5a047c4af2d82ac29ce382d/MS--Nanotech-Grant/

Author: Julie O'Connor

Source: Wayne State University

Interest: Deborah Ellis, Ph. D, associate professor of pediatrics in WSU's School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to develop and preliminarily validate a computer-delivered intervention to increase parental motivation to supervise and monitor diabetes management behavior of young adolescents who are beginning to manage their diabetes care by themselves.

Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/wsu--wsu092311.php

Author: Posted by Gail Overton

Source: laserfocusworld.com

Interest: Ultrashort pulsed laser and spectroscopy instruments manufacturer Clark-MXR was awarded a (SBIR) Phase II contract from the NIH) to further develop the laser tools, facilities, and protocols needed to produce multi-electrode cochlear implant arrays using known biocompatible materials.

Link: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2011/09/clark-mxr-cochlear-nih-sbir.html

Author: orthosupersite.com

Source: orthosupersite.com

Interest: MedShape Solutions Inc. announced it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health to assist in the research and development of a compliant shape memory polymer device for meniscal repair.

Link: http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=87846

Author: Cara Sandels

Source: emorywheel.com

Interest: The National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded the Emory School of Medicine, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Georgia Institute of Technology $7 million in total to further the application of nanotechnology in lung cancer detection and tumor surgery this past March, the University announced last week.

Link: http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=30110

Author: StemCells, Inc.

Source: StemCells, Inc.

Interest: StemCells, Inc. announced today that the first patient in the Company's breakthrough Phase I/II clinical trial in chronic spinal cord injury was successfully transplanted with the Company's proprietary HuCNS-SC(R) adult neural stem cells.

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stemcells-inc-announces-worlds-first-neural-stem-cell-transplant-in-spinal-cord-injury-patient-2011-09-22

Author: University of Kentucky

Source: University of Kentucky

Interest: CoPlex Therapeutics has signed an exclusive global license agreement with Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize hawAD14, a preclinical oral small molecule candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/spinoff-licensed-to-develop-alzheimer-s-treatment

Author: stockmarketsreview.com

Source: stockmarketsreview.com

Interest: Gentel Biosciences, a provider of animal health research products, announces today an agreement with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to license viral antigens for use in Gentel's Colony Surveillance Assays (CSA).

Link: http://www.stockmarketsreview.com/news/164772/

Author: http://www.prweb.com

Source: http://www.prweb.com

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.

Link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8809238.htm

Author: Savannah Stegall

Source: http://www.centralfloridafuture.com

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

Link: http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/researchers-work-to-treat-blood-clot-condition-1.2634047#.TnsUzFka5iM

Author: Kathy Robertson

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com

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.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2011/09/21/uc-davis-researchers-get-89m-in-grants.html

Author: Martin Swant

Source: http://blog.al.com

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.

Link: http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2011/09/discoverybiomed_wins_nih_grant.html