If you want to take a new discovery from the lab to the marketplace but don’t have the nerves for venture funds, there’s always the government. The National Institutes of Health has special grants to help small businesses fund tech transfer and innovation projects. The agency awards millions every year but scientists and entrepreneurs have […]
Kensey Nash (NASDAQ:KNSY) has received a $1.9 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the use of bioadhesive surgical mesh to repair tendons. The Exton, Pennsylvania-based medical device company focused on regenerative medicine will develop and review whether the use of a bioadhesive device can create […]
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A company that has developed imaging technology with the goal of making it easier for doctors to detect breast cancer is using the follow-on funding it received from Ben Franklin Technology Partners earlier this week towards the preliminary phase of clinical trials. Real Time Tomography, a Villanova, Pennsylvania-based company, received $150,000 from “the Bens” after […]
Viamet Pharmaceuticals will work with the National Institutes of Health to develop one of the company’s compounds into a treatment for the fungal infection cryptococcal meningitis. An antifungal compound from Morrisville, North Carolina-based Viamet has been selected for inclusion in the NIH’s Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program, a government-funded program designed to speed […]
The University of Minnesota has received a $51 million, five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health, the university announced Tuesday. It is the largest ever NIH grant that was awarded exclusively to the university and won’t be shared with other institutions, said a University of Minnesota spokesman. Through the award, […]
Researchers offer the first evidence that DNA damage can lead to the regulation of inflammatory responses, the body’s reaction to injury. The proteins involved in the regulation help protect the body from infection. The study, performed by scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National Institutes of […]
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded a University of Minnesota researcher and others a five-year, $10 million grant to study a human protein that may hold the key to treat HIV and other viral diseases Dr. Reuben Harris, professor in the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences and a project leader, and other […]
Quintiles, which has run countless clinical trials for cancer drug candidates, is taking a turn as a financial supporter for a study with a $2.6 million contribution directed toward a breakthrough breast cancer trial. I-SPY 2, is a clinical trial sponsored by The Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership that includes the U.S. Food and Drug […]
To combat the obesity epidemic, the National Institutes of Health is encouraging diverse scientific investigations through a new Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research. More than one-third of adults in the United States and nearly 17 percent of the nation’s children are now obese, which increases a person’s chance of developing many health problems, including […]
A new strategic plan to guide diabetes-related research over the next decade was announced recently by the National Institutes of Health. The plan, developed by a federal work group led by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), identifies research opportunities with the greatest potential to benefit the millions of Americans […]
NIH budget cuts are a real possibility this year. Looking back at 2010, Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. organizations in funding from the National Institutes of Health last year with $686 million. California, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas were that states that received the most federal dollars.
Minnesota has more to lose from possible National Institutes of Health budget cuts than its population size would suggest, with the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic bringing in hundreds of millions in grant dollars to the state.
Ohio ranked 10th among U.S. states in attracting research funding from the National Institutes of Health last year at $778 million.
Release of smallpox as a bioterrorism weapon is a possibility that antiviral company Chimerix has been awarded $81 million to combat. The federal contract will be used to develop the Durham, North Carolina company's antiviral drug candidate into a smallpox treatment.
Usually, it was Republicans v. Democrats in a race to increase funding to NIH grants and other National Institutes of Health research. But that is ending with GOP budget plans to cut $1 billion away from President Obama's planned increase of the NIH budget. That's bad news, considering nearly one out of every five important medical advances approved by the Food and Drug Administration between 1990 and 2007 was invented in a federally-funded lab.