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  • Fund Established to Develop Cancer Vaccines

    Cancer Research Institute (CRI) a not-for-profit organization in New York to advance the science of tumor immunology and discover new cancer therapies, launched today the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF), a new model of philanthropic investment and academic-industry collaboration. CRI established the fund with the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to encourage development of therapeutic…

  • Biotech Gets DARPA Grant for Respiratory Therapies

    Pulmatrix, a biotechnology company in Lexington, Massachusetts, said today it received a grant for $5.7 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the Department of Defense, to further develop the company’s processes for the treatment and prevention of respiratory infections. DARPA identified Pulmatrix’s inhaled cationic airway lining modulators (iCALM) technology as a…

  • Univ. Researchers Develop New Blast-Resistant Glass

    A team of engineers from the University of Missouri in Columbia and the University of Sydney in Australia is developing a blast-resistant glass that is lighter, thinner, and colorless, yet tough enough to withstand the force of an explosion, earthquake, or hurricanes winds. Their research is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of…

  • Company Leads Consortium to Crystallize Parkinson’s Enzyme

    Emerald BioStructures, a structural biology services company in Bainbridge Island, Washington, received a grant to lead a consortium to crystallize and solve the structure of the enzyme believed to be a key molecular mechanism behind Parkinson’s disease. The project, funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, includes researchers from the Helmholtz Association…

  • More International Collaboration Found in Nanotech Research

    Investigators at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami reveal how research in nanotechnology has increasingly become a multi-national enterprise, despite having some 60 countries now funding nanotech initiatives within their borders. Phillip Shapira of Georgia Tech and Jue Wang of FIU found nearly a quarter of all published…

  • Industry Funding University Citrus Disease Research

    Coca-Cola and Cutrale Citrus Juices said today at that they have each pledged $1.5 million to the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville for research into citrus fruit diseases. The Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), a direct support organization of UF, will manage the funding from the two companies and the research program. The…

  • Grant Boosts Research Commercialization Group

    The Maryland Proof of Concept Alliance — a consortium of Maryland university research institutions and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory — has received a $5.1 million federal grant to support its work moving research findings from the lab to the marketplace. The Alliance helps researchers through the often tricky and (to the researchers) unfamiliar process…

  • R&D Collaboration to Discover Drugs for River Blindness

    Anacor Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto California, the University of California San Francisco’s Sandler Center and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI) of the New York Blood Center established a research and development collaboration to discover new therapies to treat river blindness (onchocerciasis). River blindness is a parasitic disease and the second leading cause of…

  • Clinical Data Reported on Parkinson’s Biomarker Candidates

    KineMed Inc., a drug discovery company in Emeryville, California says it recently presented data on a new use of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for the monitoring of disease progression and therapeutic interventions in Parkinson’s disease. The company reported the findings at a grant review meeting of the Michael J. Fox Foundation on 1 November 2010 in…

  • GSK, Nottinghan Univ. to Collaborate on Green Chemistry

    The BBC is reporting that the global drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will build a new lab at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. for research and education in cleaner and safer chemistry processes. The proposal is expected to be presented first as a proof-of-concept in 2011, for construction at the University’s Jubilee Campus, one…