Grants
NCI Funds Second Year of Grant to Guided Therapeutics
Guided Therapeutics Inc. was awarded $1 million to fund the second year of a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced in 2009. The three-year grant provides additional resources to commercialize and bring to market the LightTouch noninvasive cervical cancer detection device and single-patient-use disposable. GT has been awarded approximately $6 million in six consecutive grants from the NCI to develop the new, pain-free test for detecting cervical disease. The GT...
Population Diagnostics Receives NIH Grant for Parkinson’s Study
Population Diagnostics Inc. has been awarded a federal grant to identify the genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease. Funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health, the project is being led by Eli Hatchwell, MD, PhD, an associate professor at Stony Brook University Medical Center and a cofounder of Population Diagnostics. Breakthroughs in the genetic and therapeutic research fields of Parkinson’s disease have been stymied...
Institute for Systems Biology Receives $6M Gift
The Institute for Systems Biology received a $6 million gift from a California venture capitalist and philanthropist to support strategic organizational objectives.  The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, is designating his gift over a period of five years to: -Facilitate ISB’s move to a new building that will double space for research and core technology facilities. -Recruit additional faculty. -Provide unrestricted support for research in areas including P4 medicine, biofuels,...
Platypus Receives NIH Grant
Platypus Technologies has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $100,000 from the National Institutes of Health. This 1-year funded project will enable the company to further expand its cell motility assay product line into the High Througput Screening (HTS) market. By implementing modifications to Platypus' current Oris 96-well cell migration assay, the company aims to make the proposed assay compatible with automated liquid handling systems and High...
Idaho Technology Receives $3.3M from DoD
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Assistant Surgeon General, Modernization Directorate (AF/SGR) has awarded Idaho Technology Inc. $3.3 million to advance development of the FilmArray system and pursue a CLIA waiver from FDA. The FilmArray integrates sample preparation, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, detection, and analysis into one system capable of detecting greater than 100 targets in one sample in less than an hour. Infectious disease...
Smiths Detection Awarded Grants
Smiths Detection announced the award of a $2.2m, two-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop a test for multiple types of influenza. The test will run on Smiths Detection’s Clinical Bio-Seeq instrument. The test developed under this program will be designed to diagnose disease in humans and will be suitable for use in a conventional laboratory setting or in a point-of-care setting running on the...
SeraCare Receives CDC, NIH Contracts
SeraCare Life Sciences Inc. announced that it has been awarded two new contracts from CDC and NIH, and that a third existing contract has been expanded by NIH to support federally-funded HIV research and testing. These contracts represent a combined $10.8 million in new funding if all options are exercised over the life of the contracts. Under a new contract awarded by CDC as part of the CDC's HIV-1 Rapid Test Proficiency Program, SeraCare will support efforts to ensure that laboratories...
Micronics Receives NIH Grant
Micronics Inc. (Redmond, WA) has been awarded a phase 2, two-year Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling approximately $770,000 to advance its rapid molecular diagnostic infectious disease platform for detection of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. The overall objective of the NIH grant is to determine whether the MTCT-HIV test that Micronics is developing for...
Cepheid Obtains NIAID Grant
Cepheid (Sunnyvale, CA) received a notice of grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop new ten-color detection technology for use in its GeneXpert System. The $7.5 million grant will be awarded to Cepheid and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey during the planned five-year program. When coupled with Cepheid's virtual array technology, the new ten-color system will have the potential to simultaneously detect up to 100 different...
National Science Foundation Offers Grant Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF; Arlington, VA) announced a special opportunity for funding projects that strengthen the research infrastructure in the nation's science and engineering research and education institutions. Funding of $300 million was provided for the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law by President Obama in February 2009. Under the special solicitation for proposals, NSF can invest up to $6...