Tag: grant
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Real-Time Coastal Monitoring System in Development
Researchers from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh are developing an electronic monitoring system to help advance understanding of coastal ecosystems by allowing users to track water-quality data from these waters in real time. The project was funded by National Science Foundation and National Security Agency. The NCSU team is working on the project…
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Cornell Gets $80 Million Gift for Sustainability Research
Cornell University alumnus David R. Atkinson and his wife Patricia Atkinson (pictured right) have given the university an $80 million gift to turn a three-year-old pilot program that they funded into a permanent, research center on challenges in the global energy, environmental, and economic development arenas. The university says the contribution represents the largest gift…
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Europe R&D Network Approves 2011 Funding Targets
EUREKA, an intergovernmental consortium of European and neighboring organizations focused on research and development, approved funding €51 million ($US 70.4 million) for 56 new projects next year. The projects were selected by EUREKA’s High Level Group Representatives and National Project Coordinators from 40 countries. The funded R&D projects covered the fields of electronics, IT and…
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Drug Discovery Company Lands $25M in Private, State Funding
Omeros Corporation, a Seattle, Washington biopharmaceutical company focused on inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system, says it has received $20 million from Vulcan Capital and a grant award for $5 million from Washington State’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) to finance the company’s G protein-coupled receptor program. G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large…
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NSF Grant Funds Research on Drought-Resistant Crops
University of Maryland in College Park has received a $5 million grant from National Science Foundation to lead a multi-institutional research partnership to help develop crop plants able to withstand drought conditions. The project will focus on guard cells in the canola plant (Brassica napus) — pictured right. Canola is an important oilseed crop grown…
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Small Business Admin Awards Science-Tech Support Grants
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has awarded $100,000 grants to 20 state and local economic development agencies, business development centers, and colleges and universities, under its Federal and State Technology (FAST) partnership program. SBA says the FAST Program is designed to stimulate economic development among small, high technology businesses through federally-funded innovation and research…
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Small Business Grants to Develop Personalized Cancer Tests
20/20 GeneSystems Inc. in Rockville, Maryland said today that the company has received nearly $3 million in two grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop tests for helping oncologists predict the effectiveness of targeted cancer therapies. The grants were awarded under NCI’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program. 20/20 says more than 20…
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MIT Innovation Center Awards Emerging Technology Grants
The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts today announced grants totaling $800,000 to 10 MIT research teams working on early-stage technologies. The Deshpande Center aims to act as a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship with grants that fund proof-of-concept explorations of emerging technologies. The 10 selected projects cover technologies including materials,…
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Grant Funds Commercializing Alternative Cultured Pearls
Florida Atlantic University’s Oceanographic Institute in Harbor Branch, Florida received a grant from the State of Florida to commercialize a process the institute developed for creating pearls. The process provides an alternative seeding method to grow or culture pearls in the queen conch, a threatened species found in Florida. Researchers at the institute discovered the…
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Grant Awarded to Develop Blood Pathogens Diagnostics Device
The U.S. Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) awarded one of its Applied Research and Technology Development grants to Micronics Inc., a medical diagnostics device company in Redmond, Washington. The award, for $2.6 million, will develop the company’s system for point-of-care molecular diagnosis of infectious pathogens. In its announcement of research needs, DMRDP called…