Tag: grant
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Survey: Therapeutic Discovery Project Helps Biotechs
A survey of executives with biotechnology companies that received grants or credits under the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project indicates the companies benefited from the awards, including the creation of new jobs. The survey of 226 top-level company executives was conducted online by the polling company Penn Schoen Berland, between November 2010 and February 2011, for…
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Life Science Commercialization Grants Awarded
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) in Seattle, Washington awarded some $600,000 in grants for the commercial development of technologies to improve the diagnosis and management of health conditions. LSDF is a Washington state agency that makes grant investments in life sciences research to benefit Washington state citizens. Christopher Bernards at Benaroya Research Institute at…
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Gates Grants Fund Malaria Modeling Device, Culture System
The University of South Florida in Tampa received $5.45 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research on devices related to malaria. The first grant is to create advanced devices that mimic the human liver to better study the life cycle of the malaria parasite. The second grant aims to develop…
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Eli Lilly, Diabetes Foundation to Fund Insulin Cell Research
Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in New York said today they agreed to fund early-stage research to help patients with type 1 diabetes regenerate insulin-producing cells destroyed by the disease. The funding supports a three-year, $1.4 million pre-clinical research project. Type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile…
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Grant Awarded to Company for Kennedy’s Disease Research
AndroScience Corp., a drug discovery and development company in San Diego, California, said it received a $3.8 million translational research grant to help develop a treatment for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, also called Kennedy’s Disease. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health awarded the grant. The…
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Device Maker, Heart Institute Fund Cardiac Device Study
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and HeartWare, a developer of left ventricular assist devices in Framingham, Massachusetts, have awarded $13.3 million to two universities explore the potential of heart devices for people with heart failure. NHLBI is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and…
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Report: Tech Industry Clusters Help Build Regional Economies
A new report from the Brookings Institution, a public policy research institute in Washington, D.C., urges the nation’s governors to create innovative new businesses in their states by building on current clusters of enterprises rather than trying to steal companies from other states. The report says this strategy, documented with examples of science and technology-based…
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Gates Grant Awarded for Tuberculosis Genomics Research
The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) in Seattle, Washington, said today it received a multi-million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research in chemical genomics to identify targets and leads in tuberculosis (TB). The project includes access to a large library of compounds at Eli Lilly and Company. The grant aims…
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Sanofi-Aventis to Support UCSF Research Program
The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-aventis said today it will take part in a program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) that encourages innovative biomedical research. Sanofi-aventis will be the first industry partner in UCSF’s Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research that awards funding to projects of potentially high impact and greater creativity. Sanofi-aventis will…
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Hershey Grant Funds University Sensory Science Lab
The Hershey Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania has awarded a grant to Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) University of Science and Technology for a new sensory science and consumer research laboratory. The grant of $90,000 will fund the start-up and operation of the lab for two years. The university says the sensory science and consumer research program is aligned…