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Semiconductor Group Signs Research Deal with Abu Dhabi
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) in Abu Dhabi announced today (11 November) a university research partnership to increase semiconductor R&D in the Arab Gulf state of Abu Dhabi. SRC is a university-industry research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and ATIC is a technology…
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Small Business Grant Awarded for Helicopter R&D
EMTEQ, an aviation engineering and avionics systems developer in New Berlin, Wisconsin, has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research for research on a lighting system for helicopter rotor blades. The award is part of the Department of Defense SBIR program, which devotes part of its R&D…
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FDA Designates Orphan Drug Made From Tarantula Venom
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated the peptide GsMTx4, made by Rose Pharmaceuticals of Buffalo, New York, as an orphan drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Rose Pharmaceuticals is a one-year old company founded by University at Buffalo (UB) medical professor Frederick Sachs and Buffalo stockbroker Jeff Harvey. While Sachs (pictured left) applied…
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Researchers Discover Workings of Anti-Parasitic Drug
Scientists have determined the way an anti-parasitic drug kills the Brugia malayi worms (illustrated right) brought on by the filarial diseases river blindness and elephantiasis, a discovery that took decades of research. The diseases afflict about 140 million people worldwide, doing much of their damage in equatorial Africa. Charles Mackenzie, a professor of veterinary pathology…
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Student, Company Produce Nanotech for Solar Cells
A collaboration between a University of Copenhagen Ph.D. candidate in Denmark and nearby solar technology company SunFlake A/S produced a discovery of using nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of solar cells and other nanoscale electronics. Nanowires are chains of single crystals a few nanometers across (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter) with unique…
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Survey: U.K. Businesses Benefit from Academic Collaboration
Improving business performance is the main focus for companies collaborating with universities, rather than technological innovation, according to results of surveys of businesses and academic institutions released today. The surveys were conducted by the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.…
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Institutions, Companies Form Psychiatric Trial Database
An international academic-industry collaboration brings together data on 23,401 anonymous patients from 67 trials on 11 compounds in over 25 countries, to form the largest database of clinical trial data ever created in psychiatric research. The project known as NEWMEDS — Novel Methods leading to NeW MEdications in Depression and Schizophrenia — is led by…
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Fuels Developer Claims Large-Scale Hydrogen from Algae
OriginOil Inc. in Los Angeles, California, a developer of a technology to transform algae into renewable fuels, says it has used solar energy to produce hydrogen from algae at a level comparable to conventional photovoltaic solar panels. The company used its Hydrogen Harvester device to generate the hydrogen. The device, according to the company, achieved…
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Economic Model Computes Value of Workplace Flu Shots
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania developed an economic model to calculate costs and benefits of employers providing flu vaccinations as an employee benefit. The team from the university’s Graduate School of Public Health showed employers can save substantial funds offering vaccinations, and the sooner in the flu season the shots are offered…
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Mass. Biotechs Give Postdocs a Look at Business
The business Web site Xconomy today tells about a year-old program for postdoctoral researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston that gives postdocs a first-hand look at biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. In Xconomy, Sylvia Pagán Westphal tells about Mass. General’s Post Doc Industry Experience Program. Westphal says there are some 1,100 labs affiliated with Mass.…