Tag: university
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FDA Approves Pfizer Drug for Advanced Kidney Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration today approved the drug axitinib to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma, a form of advanced kidney cancer, who have not responded to another drug for this type of cancer. The drug is made by Pfizer Inc. in New York and marketed under the brand name Inlyta. Renal cell carcinoma…
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VC Company, Harvard Start Seed-Stage Fund
The Experiment Fund, a joint venture of Harvard University’s engineering school and venture capital company New Enterprise Associates (NEA), opened today in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The fund plans to support technology-based student start-ups in Cambridge and companies begun elsewhere by former students. The venture expects to support companies working in information technologies, health care, and energy.…
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Columbia Joins Coulter Biomedical Engineering Partnership
Columbia University in New York and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in Miami will establish the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership, part of a network of biomedical engineering and translational research institutions in the U.S. The program is expected devote $5 million in funding over five years, with two-thirds of the funds from the Coulter Foundation,…
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Medical Sensor Powered by Music Vibrations Developed
Engineers at Purdue University in Indiana have developed a miniature medical sensor that can be powered by vibrations from music played nearby, with the deep bass of rap music found most effective. The research conducted in the lab of Babak Ziaie, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, will be presented at the…
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NIH Trials to Assess Emergency Cardiac Arrest Treatments
NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has begun two clinical trials to evaluate treatments for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: – A comparison of continuous chest compressions (CCC) combined with pause-free rescue breathing, to standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that includes a combination of chest compressions and pauses for rescue breathing, and – Treatment with the drug…
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NSF Supporting Research to Reduce Fertilizer Use in Maize
Researchers at three universities, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service have received a $1.3 million grant from National Science Foundation for research on reducing the amount of fertilizer to grow maize. The three-year project is led by the ARS’s Ivan Baxter, who also serves on the Danforth Center’s faculty in…
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Grant to Fund New Program Logic for Flight Data Integration
A grant from the U.S. Air Force to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York will fund development of computer logic to help create safer and more efficient flight technology. The $100,00 grant was awarded to computer scientist Carlos Varela of Rensselaer’s Data Science Research Center, who is also a licensed pilot (pictured right). Varela’s…
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Grant to Develop Virtual Reality Job Service for Disabled
The University of Hawaii in Manoa was awarded a $425,000 grant by the Kessler Foundation to develop a virtual reality (VR) employment orientation and support center using Second Life as a platform for people with disabilities and employers. The university’s College of Education Center on Disability Studies (CDS) will receive a Kessler Signature Employment Grant…
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Soap Developed with Magnetic Properties
Researchers at University of Bristol in the U.K. and Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France have developed a soap with iron salts that can be controlled by magnets. The discovery is expected to lead to products useful in cleaning up oil spills at sea, which can be better captured and removed after use than currently available…
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First Results Show Safety of Stem Cell Eye Transplants
Early results from two clinical trials show the safety of retinal cells derived from human embryonic stems cells (hESCs) to treat chronic eye diseases. The results from two patients, one in each trial conducted by the biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Marlborough, Massachusetts, were published online in the journal The Lancet. The clinical…