IN FOCUS FEATURE
Researchers Seek to Develop Low-Cost Ethanol
From Our Web Site
WFU Leads the State's Universities in Tech Transfer Income
Wake Forest University enjoyed the nation's fourth-highest technology transfer licensing income for fiscal 2006, according to a study recently published by the Association of University Technology Managers.
SCYNEXIS Gets Milestone Payment from Merial
Research Triangle Park-based SCYNEXIS received a payment for meeting certain milestones in its multi-year research collaboration with Merial.
Chimerix Vaccine Enters Clinical Trial
Chimerix, a Durham biotechnology company developing orally available antiviral therapeutics, has initiated a multi-dose trial with an oral treatment for smallpox infection.
In Focus
Researchers Seek to Develop Low-Cost Ethanol
Researchers at RTI International, North Carolina State University and the University of Utah are seeking to scale up proven laboratory technology that they believe will produce low-cost ethanol fuel through the gasification of biomass and other organic waste products.
The project, funded by a $2 million cost-shared contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, seeks to develop non-food-based ethanol that costs less than $1.10 per gallon produced from lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks. Current ethanol produced from corn costs more than $2 per gallon.
News from Other Sites
Crafting the Perfect Christmas Tree
"They are like yuletide Orville Redenbachers. But, instead of striving for a better popcorn, university scientists and nurserymen and women selectively breed and crossbreed plants and test and manipulate genes to grow a better Christmas tree."
From The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
DPR Group and NCTA Announce Strategic Partnership to Promote Technology Programs
"Under the partnership, DPR Group and NCTA will work together to increase NCTA’s visibility in North Carolina through targeted public relations and marketing efforts, by identifying new programs and incentives designed to grow its member base and offering additional benefits to existing members."
From Business Wire
Community Watch
- Venture capitalist David Jones and entrepreneurs Robert Egleston and Paul Clayson have been elected to the board of the Greensboro-based Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurial Network.
- David Friedman, Ph.D., professor of physiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, received the Science Educator Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
- PPD hired Philip Mathew as director of strategic development to lead the company’s phase II-IV operations and expansion in India. The contract research organization will open its second office in the city of Mumbai.
- Dr. Da-Zhi Wang, an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a National Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association for $500,000.
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