Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • UConn, United Technologies Develop Gold Substitutes

    Researchers at University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, partnering with engineers from the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Research Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, have modeled and developed new classes of alloy materials for electronic devices that can reduce reliance on costly gold and other precious metals. With the price of gold hovering around $1,370 per…

  • Ozone Technology to be Tested in Soil Cleanup Demo

    Civil and environmental engineering professor Andy Hong at University of Utah in Salt Lake City has partnered with Chinese environmental cleanup company Honde LLC to use Hong’s method of heightened ozonation treatment (HOT) to clean metals and other contaminants from polluted soil along the shores of Lake Taihu near Wuxi, China. Hong’s HOT technology infuses…

  • University of Minnesota Spins-Off Medical Device Startup

    University of Minnesota has helped launch a startup company based on the research of a professor in the university’s medical school in Minneapolis. The company, XO Thermix Medical, in nearby Wayzata, Minnesota will develop a device that treats chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). CVI is a condition affecting 2 to 5 percent of Americans, triggered by…

  • ImmunoGen, Novartis to Collaborate on Cancer Drugs

    ImmunoGen Inc., a biotechnology company in Waltham, Massachusetts, said today it has a collaboration agreement with Novartis to discover and develop targeted anticancer therapeutics using antibodies to several antigen targets to be named by Novartis, a pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Under the agreement, Novartis will pay a $45 million fee to ImmunoGen for…

  • Biotech, Pharma Companies Partner on Schizophrenia Research

    Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, a global drug manufacturer in Osaka, Japan, and Envoy Therapeutics Inc., a drug discovery company in Jupiter, Florida, said today they formed a three-year research alliance aimed at discovering drugs for schizophrenia with greater efficacy and safety compared to current therapies. Envoy’s technology, called bacTRAP, combines genetic engineering with molecular biology techniques…

  • City to Test Bio-Based Asphalt from University, Startup

    A lab at Iowa State University in Ames has developed a potential green replacement for asphalt derived from petroleum, which will be put to a test in Iowa’s sometimes extreme winters and summers. The lab, in the Institute for Transportation’s Asphalt Materials and Pavements Program at Iowa State, developed the asphalt substitute, which will be…

  • Novartis to Develop Flu Vaccines with Synthetic Genomics

    Novartis, a global pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, says today it will join with Synthetic Genomics Vaccines Inc. (SGVI), in La Jolla, California to apply a combination of synthetic biology and genomics to accelerate production of influenza seed strains required for vaccine manufacturing. Seed strains are starter cultures of a virus, and the base…

  • Algae Biofuels Technology to Capture CO2 from Coal Plants

    OriginOil Inc. in Los Angeles, California, a developer of technology to convert algae into fuel, said today it agreed to a partnership with MBD Energy Limited, its first customer and a player in the field of CO2 capture using algae. MBD Energy as a company is experienced in the use of captured flue-gases as feedstock…

  • Fishery Byproducts Can Become Fish Food

    Research aided by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, indicates that fishery byproducts can be converted into feeds for commercially farmed seafood. The work was done by the Oceanic Institute in Waimanalo, Hawaii, with help from food technologist Peter Bechtel of ARS’s unit in Kodiak, Alaska. The scientists…

  • University Spins-Off Port Security Training Company

    A research project to develop a new training course in port security at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee has led to a new company that aims to train workers at the nation’s 350 commercial ports. The company, Educational Development Group LLC (EDG), has begun marketing its security training program and online reporting system to…