Avacta Group and Leeds University secure £3.8m fund to develop new diagnostic tests
Avacta Group plc, the science-led healthcare supplier, has announce that a collaborative programme with Leeds University has been awarded a £3.8m grant by the Medical Research Council. The Wetherby-based supplier of Affimer biotherapeutics and research reagents, will use the grant to develop novel, rapid diagnostic tools incorporating Affimer reagents, to differentiate between viral and bacterial […]
ONGC launches Rs 100 crore start-up fund to ignite new ideas
ONGCBSE 0.87 % has launched a Rs 100 crore start-up fund on its Diamond Jubilee year to foster, nurture and incubate new ideas related to oil and gas sector. The initiative, christened as ‘ONGC Start-up’, is in line with the government’s initiative ‘Start-up India’. As part of this initiative, ONGC will provide the entire support […]
Alafair Biosciences raises $2M with eye on marketing, product development; U Texas Horizon Fund invests
Alafair Biosciences Inc. has identified how it plans to spend its most recent $2 million series A funding round — the Austin medical device company said Monday afternoon it will use those dollars for product development and to widen its branding reach. The investment, first reported by Austin Business Journal back in mid-July, was led […]
Venture fund puts $6 million into UCSD inventions
Two technologies from UC San Diego – a saliva diagnostics sensor and foam that can generate power – have been selected for up to $6 million in funding by local start-up investor NextWave Venture Partners. The deals highlight NextWave’s business model of licensing promising technologies from universities and research institutes. It has named its latest […]
University of Buffalo seed fund aims to make an IMPACT on new, innovative research
Greg Fabiano readily admits that his research project using a driving simulator to test teenage drivers who have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder never would have received federal funding if it weren’t for a smaller seed grant that helped lay the framework for the study. The grant came in 2009 via an award administered through the University […]