Category: Joint ventures/collaborations
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NGOs: Technique Boosts Rice Production with Less Water
International relief and development organizations Oxfam America, Worldwide Fund for Nature, and Africare reported an improved method of rice farming known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) that the groups say has the potential to dramatically improve the lives of millions of poor people around the world. The report released Wednesday is based on…
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Belgian Nanotech Company To Open Taiwan R&D Center
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec), a company conducting research in nanotechnology in Leuven, Belgium said it concluded an agreement with Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs to open the Imec Taiwan Innovation Centre (ITIC). The ministry announced it will co-fund the facility with Imec. ITIC is expected to expedite applied research projects with industry and academia to…
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Analytical Service Partners with Cancer Drug Makers
Predictive Biomarker Sciences (PBS-Bio) in Mesa, Arizona said today that it signed new contracts with three companies developing therapies against a variety of cancers. PBS-Bio’s analysis helps pharmaceutical companies better understand how their drugs work, and identifies biomarkers that can help predict which patients will respond to treatment. The company’s three new pharmaceutical partners include:…
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Business Incubator Spins Off Hand Hygiene Start Up
HanGenix, a recently formed start up enterprise in Boston, Massachusetts, is the first company to be spun out of a new business incubator program from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of teaching hospitals and engineering schools, also in Boston. HanGenix focuses on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by…
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Grant Funds Commercializing Alternative Cultured Pearls
Florida Atlantic University’s Oceanographic Institute in Harbor Branch, Florida received a grant from the State of Florida to commercialize a process the institute developed for creating pearls. The process provides an alternative seeding method to grow or culture pearls in the queen conch, a threatened species found in Florida. Researchers at the institute discovered the…
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University, Entrepreneurs Advance Biofuels for U.S. Military
Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York joined today with two entrepreneurs to advance the use of biofuels by the U.S. armed forces as an alternative energy source. The entrepreneurs, John Fox and Wayne Arden, have proposed producing biodiesel in Afghanistan as a way of reducing risks to American troops and building a new, sustainable industry…
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Max Planck Institute, GSK to Collaborate on Diabetes Drugs
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPI) in Martinsried, Germany and the German subsidiary of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have agreed on a partnership to develop new drugs for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Max Planck Innovation, MPI’s technology transfer organisation, says the agreement is worth several million euros and covers a three-year period.…
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Sanofi-aventis, Harvard to Collaborate on Biomedical Research
Sanofi-aventis, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts said today they established a collaboration to conduct basic and applied research in human health and promote scientific exchange between their organizations. The collaboration will focus on translational biomedical research in therapies for conditions such as cancer, diabetes and inflammation. Under…
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Analysis of Patient Records Shows Results of H5N1 Flu Drug
An analysis of clinical records stored in a registry of patients from various countries who contracted the influenza A/H5N1 (Avian flu) virus, shows that treatment with the drug oseltamivir reduces mortality in patients with the disease, even when given late in the course of illness. The findings were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.…
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Univ/Corp Team Extends Lithium-Ion Capacity with Silicon
A team of scientists from Rice University and Lockheed Martin in Houston, Texas has discovered a way to use nanotechnology with silicon to increase the capacity of lithium-ion material in batteries. Research by Sibani Lisa Biswal and Michael Wong, on the chemical and biomolecular engineering faculties at Rice, and Steven Sinsabaugh, a Lockheed Martin Fellow,…