Category: Finance
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Energy Dept Funding Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cost Models
The U.S. Department of Energy is funding four projects to better determine the costs of making fuel cells and hydrogen storage systems. The awards, totaling $7 million over five years, will cover studies to provide data that help the department focus future research and development funding on fuel cell components and manufacturing processes. The Energy…
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Challenge Seeks Process for Low-Abundance Protein Measures
A challenge at InnoCentive seeks a sample processing technology or process that will reduce the concentration of high-abundance proteins in serum and plasma samples. The competition has a prize of $30,000 and requires a written proposal. The deadline for entries is 1 October 2011. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts is a company the conducts open-innovation crowd-sourcing…
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UC San Diego Added to Pfizer Translational Network
Pfizer Inc. in New York says University of California, San Diego Health Sciences will join the company’s network of translation research partnerships called Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI). The company’s CTI partnerships now include life science research institutions in Massachusetts and New York, as well as California. Pfizer says it expects to spend some $50…
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Army Seeking Energy Harvesters for Foot Soldiers and Squads
The U.S. Army’s Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick, Massachusetts wants ideas for energy sources that soldiers can carry around to power the sensors and other electronic devices needed to carry out their missions. The deadline for concept papers on this topic is 31 August. The Natick center notes that the soldiers will…
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Hopkins to Study Creating Blood Platelets from Stem Cells
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland have begun a study of inherited blood clotting abnormalities focusing on the potential creation of human platelet cells from stem cells. The study is funded by a $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant is part of an overall NIH initiative on genetic…
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Universities to Study Food Security in Appalachia
Virginia Tech in Blacksburg is collaborating with West Virginia University and North Carolina State University to develop, implement, and evaluate a food security strategy for the southern Appalachian region. The three-year, $2 million study is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.…
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Bio-Engineered Spinal Disc Implants Tested in Animals
A team of engineers and neurosurgeons at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and New York City have developed and tested in rats a biologically based implant to replace intervertebral discs in the spinal column. Their findings appear online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (paid subscription required). Spinal discs are…
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Contracts Awarded for GI Tract Radiation Syndrome Drugs
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) awarded two contracts for further research and development of drugs to treat gastrointestinal (GI) tract injuries associated with acute radiation syndrome. BARDA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contracts are part of BARDA’s program to develop tools and drugs to…
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Corp/Univ Project to Research Green Energy for Data Centers
Chip maker AMD says it will take part with HP, Clarkson University, and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in a project researching the challenge of channeling renewable energy to data centers. Because wind and solar energy are intermittent power sources, the study will also seek ways to automatically shift a…
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Challenge Seeks Cost-Effective Fleet Vehicle Data Capture
A challenge at InnoCentive seeks a more cost-effective way of capturing data from a large fleet of vehicles with little, if any, intervention by the drivers. The competition has a prize of $25,000 and requires a written proposal. The deadline for entries is 28 September 2011. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts is a company the conducts…