Month: November 2011
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Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada Fund TB Diagnostic
A device called an Electronic Nose that can detect tuberculosis in the breath of a patient, has received a $950,000 grant from Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding will support further development and testing of the technology, developed by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in…
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Diagnostics Company Lands $20 Million Investment Round
NanoString Technologies Inc., a Seattle-based privately held developer of medical science diagnostic tools, says it has closed a $20 million equity deal to finance the company’s continued growth. The series D round — the company’s fourth funding cycle after start-up — includes the first investment by GE’s healthymagination Fund. NanoString Technologies makes molecular diagnostic equipment…
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FDA Approves Anti-Clotting Drug for Stroke Prevention
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the anti-clotting drug rivaroxaban to reduce the risk of stroke in people with abnormal heart rhythms from atrial fibrillation due to problems other than faulty heart valves. The drug is marketed under the name Xarelto in the U.S. by Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Raritan, New Jersey, a subsidiary…
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Solar Technology Developed for Current Electric Power Plants
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have come up with a technology that integrates solar energy into current gas turbine power generating plants. Engineering professor Avi Kribus (pictured left) and graduate student Maya Livshits describe their work online in Solar Energy Journal; paid subscription required. The process devised by Kribus and Livshits, called a…
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Driver Health Monitors Developed for Passenger Cars
A research team at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, TUM) in Germany and the BMW Group devised a sensor system that can monitor the driver’s state of health while driving. The scientific team led by TUM’s professor Tim Lueth published their findings in a recent issue of the technical journal ATZ Online…
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National Lab, MIT Launch Materials Discovery Database
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a database to accelerate discovery and development of new materials in critical technologies. The Department of Energy database, part of an initiative called the Materials Project, will be available to scientists and engineers at universities, national laboratories, and private industry. Parts…
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Sanford-Burnham to Join Pfizer Translational Network
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in San Diego has agreed to participate with Pfizer Inc. in the pharmaceutical company’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), a consortium of academic labs and institutes working in translational research. Sanford-Burnham joins university medical centers and institutes in Massachusetts, New York, San Francisco and San Diego, California. Pfizer calls CTI an…
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NSF Award to Help Commercialize Implanted Medication Pump
A biomedical engineering professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles has received an Innovation Corps award from National Science Foundation to help bring to market research from her lab. The six-month $50,000 grant — one of the first group of Innovation Corps awardees announced last month by NSF — will help USC’s Ellis…
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Roche, DexCom to Partner on Insulin Delivery Systems
Roche Diagnostics, a division of the global pharmaceutical company, and DexCom Inc. in San Diego have agreed to develop an insulin delivery system for diabetics that combines the companies’ technologies. Roche also agreed to distribute DexCom’s glucose monitoring system for health care professionals. The two companies aim to integrate DexCom’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology…
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Laser Technique Developed for Microscale Tissue Engineering
A research team from Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) eV Institute in Hannover, Germany, and the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh has devised a technique to produce finely detailed scaffolds on which human cells can grow to replace lost or damaged…