Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • Hospital-Community Partnership Cuts Heart Disease 24%

    A collaboration of health systems and the town of New Ulm, Minnesota, has resulted in a 24 percent reduction of heart disease in the community over 15 months. The findings were presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology on 3 April. The initiative — called Hearts Beat Back: The Heart of New…

  • Universities Form Appalachian Enviro. Research Initiative

    Seven universities in the Appalachian region of the U.S. have formed  a consortium to study environmental impacts of the production and use Appalachia’s energy resources, particularly coal. Virginia Tech in Blacksburg will house the new Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science (ARIES). ARIES is expected to involve researchers representing a range of disciplines from Virginia…

  • Merck to Offer Biotech Funding, Incubator in Israel

    The global pharmaceutical company Merck in Darmstadt, Germany has opened the Merck Serono Israel Bioincubator Fund, to support Israeli biotech and materials science start up companies. Merck’s chairman Karl-Ludwig Kley announced the initiative yesterday during meetings with officials in Israel. Merck’s incubator program covers pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and high-performance materials. The program will offer start…

  • Yale, Gilead Sciences to Collaborate on Cancer Therapies

    Gilead Sciences Inc., a biopharmaceutical company in Foster City, California and Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut agreed on a multi-year research collaboration for the discovery of new cancer therapies. Gilead will have the first option to license Yale’s findings that result from the collaboration. The research effort will initially span four years…

  • Solar Developer, Energy Lab Sign R&D Deal

    New Energy Technologies Inc. in Columbia, Maryland has signed a research and development agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado to advance the company’s technology for generating solar electric power through window glass. NREL is a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. New Energy’s system, marketed under the trade name SolarWindow,…

  • University Studying Smart Polymer Film to Control Substrates

    Researchers at Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany are developing thin plastics with the ability to control the properties of materials to which they are attached. The films made of polymers — long, repeating chains of molecules — would contain elements that react to external stimuli, such as light or magnetic fields, and change the underlying…

  • Molycorp, Ames Lab to Partner on Rare Earth Magnets

    Molycorp Inc. in Greenwood Village, Colorado and Ames National Laboratory have signed a research and development agreement to devise new methods to create commercial-grade rare-earth permanent magnets. Ames Lab in Ames, Iowa is a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. Rare-earth elements are key components in modern electronic technologies, such as televisions, fluorescent light…

  • U.K. Grant Funds Composite Materials Research

    A research team from two universities in the U.K. have been awarded a grant to develop a new generation of high performance, fiber-reinforced polymer composites to overcome failures that can happen with little warning. The £6 million ($US 9.6 million) six-year grant by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council was awarded to University of…

  • Patent Awarded for Protein Biomarker Cancer Screening

    Van Andel Research Institute (VARI), a biomedical research institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Gentel Biosciences, a biotechnology company in Madison, Wisconsin received a patent for their process to  profile changes in proteins binding to antibodies in test arrays. This process can screen for biomarkers indicating early stages of cancer, including liver and pancreatic cancers…

  • Early Trial Indicates Stem Cells Can Reverse Heart Damage

    Researchers from University of Miami in Florida and BioCardia, a cardiac device manufacturer in San Carlos, California have shown that stem cells injected into enlarged hearts can reduce heart size, reduce scar tissue, and improve function to injured heart areas. The results of this small trial appear in the journal Circulation Research, published by the…