Tag: grant
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Report: Loose Governance in Oil Company/University Agreements
The Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive issues analysis organization in Washington, DC, reviewed 10 agreements between universities in the U.S. and oil companies where the companies offer to fund energy research, particularly in alternative fuels. The report finds several areas where the agreements have the potential to compromise academic freedom and limit the…
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Grant Funds Company Clinical Trial of Addiction Drug
Omeros Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company in Seattle, Washington, said today that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of National Institutes of Health, has provided an additional grant to fund clinical studies for the company’s addiction program. The grant will fund a clinical trial of the company’s drug on addiction to heroin and cigarettes.…
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Noninvasive Alcohol Test Gains U.S. Army Grant
The U.S. Army has awarded a grant to TruTouch Technologies, a developer of alcohol testing systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the company to further develop its technology. The grant for $438,000 was awarded by the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center at Fort Detrick,…
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Virginia Medical Device Company Wins Small Business Grants
HemoSonics LLC, a developer of blood diagnostics devices in Charlottesville, Virginia, has received three grants totaling some $2 million from National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Office of Naval Research. The company was founded by three faculty members at University of Virginia, also in Charlottesville, to commercialize their research in biomedical engineering. HemoSonics’ technology, called…
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University of Rochester Launches Commercialization Fund
University of Rochester in New York has started a new Technology Development Fund that will award grants to help scientists advance their findings closer to the stage where they can be transferred to the market. Awards from the fund will range from $40,000 to $100,000. Robert Clark, dean of Rochester’s Hajim School of Engineering and…
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Chemists Streamline Cooking Oil Conversion to Biodiesel
As the U.S. seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the country continues to discard large quantities of waste vegetable oil — consider the quantity of oil used to cook one order of french fries, for example — that could be converted into bio-based fuels. But this process presents problems, notably the time and…
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California Funds Solar Cogeneration, Winery Demo Project
Cogenra Solar, a developer of solar cogeneration systems in Mountain View, California, has received a $1.5 million research grant from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration Program. The funding will support accelerated development and commercial deployment of Cogenra’s solar cogeneration technology, including a demonstration project at the Sonoma Wine Company in Graton,…
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University Spins-Off Port Security Training Company
A research project to develop a new training course in port security at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee has led to a new company that aims to train workers at the nation’s 350 commercial ports. The company, Educational Development Group LLC (EDG), has begun marketing its security training program and online reporting system to…
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NIH Awards $1.8 Million in Small Business Grants for Vaccines
Altravax Inc. in Fargo, North Dakota received two grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on vaccines for HIV-1. A third NIH grant supports the company’s work on vaccines for an influenza virus. All three grants, valued at $1.8 million, are awarded under NIH’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Two of the…
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Small Business Grant Awarded for Cargo X-Ray System
Accuray Incorporated, a developer of X-ray technology for robotic surgery in Sunnyvale, California, received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Homeland Security to adapt the company’s high-energy X-ray technology for cargo scanning and inspection. The grant, valued at $1 million, will fund development of a compact X-ray source bundled with…