Tag: grant
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NSF Funding Innovation Research, Collaboration, Training
National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun a new funding program, Accelerating Innovation Research, with two related activities to help accelerate the translation of new knowledge from research into products with market value. The activities aim to spur translation of fundamental research, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train students who understand innovation…
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Energy Department to Fund Nanolubricant Plant
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded NanoMech Inc. of Springdale, Arkansas a grant for $1 million to develop and test a pilot-scale production facility for manufacturing of NanoGlide, the company’s lubricant additives engineered at nano scale. The DoE grant is a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award that follows an earlier…
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Small Business Grant Awarded for Oral Hygiene Drug
PolyMedix Inc., a biotechnology company in Radnor, Pennsylvania received a $986,000 Phase 2 small business grant from National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant supports development of antimicrobial compounds for the treatment of oral candidiasis, a yeast infection affecting the lining of the mouth or tongue, through 31 August 2012. Under the first portion of…
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Grant Awarded for Natural Invasive Mussel Control
National Science Foundation awarded Marrone Bio Innovations Inc. of Davis, California $600,000 in grants for naturally-based biotechnologies to control invasive mussels. The funding includes a $500,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Program grant for the project Commercialization of an Innovative Green Technology for Controlling Zebra Mussels and a $100,000 Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships grant. Marrone…
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First Wave Energy Device Connected to Power Grid
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) in Pennington, New Jersey, says it has completed the first-ever grid connection of a wave energy device in the United States at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Oahu. The grid connection uses OPT’s PowerBuoy systems to produce what the company calls utility-grade, renewable energy that can be delivered compliant with national…
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U.K. Partnership to Research TB Testing Methods
A collaboration between the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the U.K.’s national measurement institute in Teddington, England and Orla Protein Technologies, a biotech company in Newcastle upon Tyne, England has been awarded £91,000 ($US 144,000) by the U.K. Technology Strategy Board to investigate improved methods for the detection of tuberculosis (TB). The U.S. Centers for Disease…
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Commerce Dept. Makes Science-Tech Commercialization Awards
Six U.S. technology R&D organizations are the winners of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s i6 Challenge, a competition of ideas for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced the winners today at an event on regional innovation clusters co-hosted by The Brookings Institution. The i6 Challenge identifies the nation’s best ideas for technology…
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Microfinance Expands for Research Funding
SciFlies is the latest Web site for collecting public donations for research, taking the grassroots funding model found in the arts and media and applying it to science. With Sciflies and similar sites, researchers pitch their ideas to the public at large, who then can contribute to their favorite projects. The SciFlies idea is similar…
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Grant Awarded for Research on Geothermal Power from CO2
GreenFire Energy in Salt Lake City, Utah received a $2 million grant award from the Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Program to investigate and evaluate the potential for low-temperature carbon dioxide-based (CO2-based) geothermal power production. The Department of Energy says GreenFire Energy will provide field evaluations of a low temperature CO2-based geothermal electric power generation…
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NIH Awards Two Small Business Grants for Skin Disorders
Signum Biosciences Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey received two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grants by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, a division of the NIH, totaling over $684,000 for development of G-protein coupled receptor modulating therapeutics designed to treat common skin disorders. Phase 1 SBIR grants fund…