Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • National Lab, Software Company Form Text Analysis Subsidiary

    Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee formed a subsidiary with Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve), an engineering company in Oak Ridge, to provide text analysis services using software developed at the lab. The software, known as Piranha, performs high-volume document analysis for military and security users. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Piranha analyzes…

  • Non-Invasive Diagnostics for Epilepsy Developed

    Biomedical engineers at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and medical researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota created a new type of brain scan done immediately after an epileptic seizure that can tell more about the causes of those seizures. The team led by Minnesota engineering professor Bin He (pictured right) appears online today…

  • Kauffman Helping Stanford Student Accelerator Go National

    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City is providing an $800,000 grant to StartX, an accelerator for student start-up businesses on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California. The grant will help StartX scale up its operations to expand across the U.S. StartX is a not-for-profit organization for entrepreneurs affiliated with Stanford University.…

  • Consortium Launched for Industrial Robotic Operating System

    Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio unveiled a research consortium to speed development of an operating system for robots meeting the needs of industrial users. The ROS-Industrial Consortium aims to build an extension of the Robot Operating System (ROS), an open-source common framework of software libraries and tools, currently for service and research robotics applications.…

  • Texas AgriLife, BP to Partner on Biofuel Feedstocks

    Texas AgriLife Research, part of Texas A&M University in College Station, and BP Biofuels agreed to develop and commercialize cellulosic feedstocks for the production of biofuels. Financial details of the three-year agreement were not disclosed. The R&D project, says Texas AgriLife, combines plant breeding and production agronomics.  The plant breeding segment will develop new varieties…

  • Pfizer, Biotech to Partner on Autoimmune Disorders

    The global pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. and biotechnology company Nodality Inc. in South San Francisco, California agreed to a partnership that provides Pfizer with access to Nodality’s cell signaling analysis technology to streamline development of treatments for autoimmune diseases, beginning with lupus. The financial amount of the multi-year year was not disclosed. Nodality has created…

  • UC San Diego, Yale to Build Neuroscience Gateway

    University of California in San Diego and Yale University are developing an online gateway to provide high-performance computational tools for neuroscientists. The Neuroscience Gateway project is funded by a three year, $707,000 grant from National Science Foundation. UC San Diego will make available its supercomputer center and Neuroscience Information Framework for neuroscientists to access advanced…

  • Simple Process Devised to Make Thin-Film Display Material

    Researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Advanced Technology Materials Inc. in Danbury, Connecticut developed a simpler and less expensive process for producing thin films of indium tin oxide used in touch-screen displays and solar panels. The team led by Brown chemistry professor Shouheng Sun (pictured right) published its findings online in a…

  • Foundation Medicine, Clovis Oncology Partner on Diagnostics

    Genomic diagnostics provider Foundation Medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts and biotechnology company Clovis Oncology in Boulder, Colorado, will collaborate on diagnostics to identify cancer patients most likely to respond to rucaparib, a drug candidate in development by Clovis Oncology. Rucaparib is a small-molecule drug developed to treat tumors with defective BRCA gene function in breast and…

  • 120-Car Fleet Testing Intelligent Vehicle Network

    A fleet of 120 cars began today a field test in Germany of intelligent vehicle technology. Researchers at Munich Technical University (Technische Universität München, TUM) designed the testing scenarios and will process the data, as part of a larger project involving auto manufacturers, technology providers, universities, and research institutes. The Safe Intelligent Mobility – Test…