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University Lighting Research Center Gains Industry Backers
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York has drawn 21 industrial partners to help guide the center’s research programs and move its findings from the lab bench to the marketplace. ERC began in 2008 with funding from National Science Foundation, and is led by Rensselaer. The center’s…
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HHS to Use Challenges to Spur New Health Info Technology
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced its Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative that offers prizes and competitions to accelerate development of solutions in health information technology. The program will be run from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology. The i2 Initiative plans to use open-innovation methods, such…
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Pfizer Adds Mass. Institutions to Translational Network
Pfizer Inc. in New York is adding eight Massachusetts research institutions to its network of translational research partnerships, called the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation. The company also says it will put the academic network’s headquarters in Boston, a $100 million investment over five years. Jose Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, Pfizer’s vice-president for biotherapeutics research and development, says…
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Mayo Clinic, GE to Research Brain-Scan MRI Technology
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York will conduct research leading to development of a dedicated MRI brain scanner for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Their work is funded by a $5.7 million grant from National Institutes of Health. An MRI brain scanner would be dedicated to diagnose disorders…
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Prototype U.K. Medical Records Card/Stick Developed
Two universities in the U.K. have developed a prototype smart card fitted with mass memory stick containing an individual’s medical records. The MyCare Card prototype was developed by City University London and Coventry University, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The MyCare Card, pictured left, stores personal medical data, such…
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Collaboration to Develop Second-Generation Malaria Vaccine
The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) says it has an agreement with Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V., a division of Johnson & Johnson, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to develop a second-generation vaccine against malaria. PATH is an international non-profit organization that helps communities worldwide break longstanding cycles of poor health. According to World Health Organization (WHO),…
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Open-Source Genome Analysis Software Developed
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York have written software to make the analysis of genomic data easier for fellow researchers. The findings appeared last month in the journal Bioinformatics. Julien Lajugie and Eric Bouhassira developed the open-source software, called GenPlay, to help biologists analyze raw genomics…
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Intel to Partner with Universities on Secure Computing
Intel Corporation in Mountain View, California says it has an agreement with five universities to collaborate on research to improve secure computing for the end user. Partnering on its second Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) is University of California at Berkeley that will serve as the center’s host, and Carnegie Mellon, Drexel, Duke, and…
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Pavement Affects Weather, Aids Build Up of Urban Pollutants
A team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado found the intense commercial development in Houston, Texas can change weather patterns in that city, which makes it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. Their findings will appear in an upcoming issue of…
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GE Technology Selected for First Gas/Wind/Solar Power Plant
GE says it will provide the basic technology for a power plant in Turkey that generates electricity with a combination of natural gas, wind, and solar power. The plant, to be built by MetCap Energy Investments, a Turkish development company, is expected to provide power for more than 600,000 homes when it goes online in…