Tag: grant
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Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery
Alsace BioValley, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, a health science cluster and Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery in Nuns’ Island, Québec, Canada, signed in Paris today an agreement for a bilateral partnership to benefit Alsatian and Québec research centers and industries in the health and life sciences. The agreement calls for co-financing of R&D collaborative projects in…
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Gates Foundation Grants $50M for New Insecticides
The Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) has received $50 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue work developing new insecticides for the control of insects like mosquitoes that transmit malaria, dengue, and other tropical diseases. The five year grant will support new and ongoing projects to develop new active ingredients for insecticides…
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Foundation, Company Partner on Diabetes Clinical Study
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in New York, N.Y. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. in San Diego, California said today they entered into an agreement to provide financial support for a clinical proof-of-concept study to investigate the effects of Amylin’s metreleptin, an analog of the human hormone leptin, in patients with type 1 diabetes. Researchers…
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Pfizer and UCSF Sign R&D Collaboration, More Planned
Pfizer Inc., the New York, N.Y. pharmaceutical manufacturer, said today it will establish a network of partnerships with academic medical centers to access the talents of university researchers. Called the Global Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, the University of California, San Francisco is the first university in Pfizer’s network. Pfizer plans to establish a presence at…
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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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Research Institutes Collaborate on Cancer Nanomedicine
Five research institutions have formed the Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine (TCCN) in Houston to develop nanotechnologies to improve outcomes for patients with ovarian or pancreatic cancers. TCCN is funded by a five-year, $16 million grant from National Cancer Institute. The five institutions taking part in TCCN include University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,…
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Biotechs Awarded Michael J. Fox Foundation Grants
Two biotechnology companies report today awards of grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF). The foundation supports research on therapies for Parkinson’s disease. Adolor Corporation in Exton, Pennsylvania says it received a second round of funding by MJFF to support the development of treatments for levadopa (l-DOPA)-induced dyskinesia (LID) associated with Parkinson’s disease. The…
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IRS Posts Therapeutic Discovery Project Awards
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) posted the complete list of companies receiving Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project credits and grants under a provision of the Affordable Care Act enacted on 23 March 2010. The Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project program is targeted to projects that show potential to produce new therapies, reduce long-term health care costs, or…
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Four Biotechs Land Affordable Care Act Grants
Four biotechnology companies reported the awarding of grants under a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, known popularly as the Affordable Care Act. The Act adds to Section 48D of the Internal Revenue Code a provision called the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Credit. This credit funds projects that show potential…
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Biotech Company Gets Affordable Care Act Grant
Cancer diagnostics company Biomoda Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico says it received a grant of more than $244,000 under a provision in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, known popularly as the Affordable Care Act. The grant will fund pilot and later-stage clinical trials of the company’s CyPath diagnostic assay for the detection…