Tag: grant
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Research Funding Boosted in Europe, Targets Small Business
The European Commission (EC) announced today nearly €6.4 billion of investment in research and innovation. The funding, its largest to date, covers a vast range of scientific disciplines and commercial sectors, with a special emphasis on smaller businesses. The EC says this funding will increase European competitiveness and address critical policy issues, with some €800…
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Academic-Business Partnership Proposals Sought by NSF
National Science Foundation (NSF) wants innovative ideas on energy, sustainability, and the education of next generation entrepreneurs from small business and academic institutions, and is prepared to pay $7 million for those ideas. This NSF program, called Partnerships for Innovation, aims to produce academic scientists better able to adapt their findings to practical applications and…
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Biotech Company Wins NIH Biodefense Grants
MacroGenics Inc, a biotechnology company in Rockville, Maryland, today announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the company three new grants representing total funding of $9.8 million. MacroGenics develops therapeutics to treat autoimmune disorders, cancer and infectious diseases. The company says the NIH grants will advance its Dual-Affinity Re-Targeting (DART) platform, as…