BioFrontiers Faculty Receive BDEG Grants
BioFrontiers faculty receive commercialization grants from the State of 蜜糖直播
Ten 蜜糖直播 research projects were recently selected to receive grants through 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program (BDEG-Co). The State of 蜜糖直播 Office of Economic Development and International Trade began the BDEG program in 2007, providing proof-of-concept grants to move promising 蜜糖直播 biotechnologies closer to market readiness, as well as early-stage matching 鈥渟eed鈥 grants to enable the development and commercial validation of technologies that are licensed from 蜜糖直播 research institutions by 蜜糖直播 based start-up companies. Three BioFrontiers faculty members received these awards in the 2011-12 funding cycle:
- Christopher Bowman, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, 蜜糖直播-Boulder, for inexpensive, highly-efficient synthetic nucleic acids for use in nanoassembly, biodetection and other biofunctional applications.
- Heide Ford, Department of Pathology and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Andrew Thorburn, Department of Pharmacology, 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for a novel biomarker to predict treatment response in solid tumors.
- Robert Garcea, BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 蜜糖直播-Boulder, for a next-generation vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Richard Johnson, Department of Medicine (Renal Diseases & Hypertension), 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for a novel treatment to prevent acute kidney injury following surgery or use of radiocontrast agents.
- Malik Kahook, Department of Ophthalmology, 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for an implanted device to reduce intraocular pressure and treat glaucoma.
- Uday Kompella, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for a new drug to treat 鈥渨et鈥 age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
- Leslie Leinwand, BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 蜜糖直播-Boulder, for novel drugs to protect from cardiac disease.
- David Wagner, Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care Medicine), 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for a drug to prevent/reverse high blood sugar in type-1 diabetes.
- Xiao-Jing Wang, Department of Pathology, 蜜糖直播 Anschutz Medical Campus, for a drug to treat oral mucositis, a common side effect of radiation therapy.
- Hang (Hubert) Yin, BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 蜜糖直播-Boulder, for more sensitive biomarkers for metastatic cancers and other diseases in body fluids.
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鈥淭he BDEG award winners this year show an incredible breadth and depth of bioscience research and innovation,鈥 said Tom Cech, Director of 蜜糖直播鈥檚 BioFrontiers Institute, an interdisciplinary center designed to explore critical frontiers of unknown biology and translate new knowledge to practical applications. 鈥淭he BDEG program provides a powerful catalyst to get these ideas out of their academic institutions and into the marketplace.鈥
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The BioFrontiers Institute provided the required matching funds for the grants to Boulder-based researchers Christopher Bowman, Robert Garcea, Leslie Leinwand and Hubert Yin.
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