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MA |
2000 |
Brown University
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6 |
Audio/Visual |
NSF
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Working in Brown University’s Division of Engineering, Dr. Harvey Silverman and Dr. Michael Brandstein developed a “beam-forming” technology. This technology, now used by Acoustic Magic, has revolutionized microphones.
Anyone who h...
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MA |
2005 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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2 |
Med Device/Diagnostic |
DOD
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Imagine a handheld device that lets clinicians detect early signs of renal failure while there is still time to save a patient’s kidneys. Now imagine that the same device can quickly give doctors the information they need to make the best possi...
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MA |
2007 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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2 |
Med Device/Diagnostic |
DOD
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Founded by experienced researchers in biomedical instrumentation and electrical and computer engineering, Advanced Body Sensing is dedicated to the development of wireless wearable physiological sensors. The vision of Advanced Body Sensing is to deve...
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NJ |
2002 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
9 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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Advaxis, Inc. is a biotechnology company that uses a live genetically modified infectious microorganism to activate the immune system to treat cancer, infectious disease or allergic syndromes.
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CA |
2004 |
University of California, Los Angeles
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6 |
Biotech/Pharma |
DOD +
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In the 1980s, Dr. William Pardridge, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and his research team were the first to show that there were receptor systems along the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) ...
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MI |
2007 |
Michigan Technological University
|
6 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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Why is it that, while humans begin to show reduced bone mass and strength after even short periods of inactivity, black bears can hibernate for up to seven months and emerge without any loss in bone mass or strength? Dr. Seth Donahue and researchers ...
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PA |
2005 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
16 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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Avid is a clinical-stage, product-focused molecular imaging company with significant expertise and IP in the field of molecular brain imaging. Chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, a...
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FL |
2002 |
University of Florida
|
26 |
Biotech/Pharma |
DOD
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There is currently no simple point-of-care blood test that emergency room physicians can use to establish whether a patient has brain trauma, or how severe it is. Banyan Biomarkers is the leader in developing blood test-based diagnostic products for ...
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PA |
2003 |
Princeton University
|
4 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Until now, whole genome analysis has been slow, complicated and expensive. But in his laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, Professor Stephen Chou developed a technology that could lead to a way to sequence D...
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NY |
2005 |
University at Buffalo
|
8 |
Antibac/Sterilization |
DOD
|
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Buffalo BioBlower Technologies develops products that instantaneously sterilize high-volume airstreams; all spores, bacteria and viruses in the airstream are killed. BioBlower products are based on patented technology that uses compressive heating to...
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IL |
2001 |
University of Chicago
|
30 |
Ag/Life Sci |
NSF
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Chromatin’s patented mini-chromosome technologies enable the development of new seed products and the delivery of multiple genetic traits. Consumers, growers, seed companies, and processors derive greater value from crop plants through the appl...
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IN |
2006 |
Indiana University
|
5 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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What if a simple tissue or blood test could help doctors quickly tell whether tumors are benign or cancerous? It could mean earlier, less invasive therapies, fewer treatment-related problems and, ultimately, more cancer survivors. This was the challe...
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VA |
2000 |
University of Virginia
|
15 |
Industrial |
DOD +
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In the mid-1990s, University of Virginia Professor Haydn Wadley and his team of researchers invented a revolutionary new coating method that could be used by manufacturers. The technology they created, “Directed Vapor Deposition (DVD),” i...
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NJ |
2007 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai...
|
9 |
Lighting |
DOD +
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Eden Park Illumination, Inc. was founded in May 2007, to develop and commercialize products based on new lighting technology called Microplasma. The company is committed to developing earth-friendly products and its activities encompass the research,...
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IN |
2006 |
Indiana University
|
3 |
Med Device/Diagnostic |
NIH
|
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FAST Diagnostics is a medical technology company that has a patent-pending device and technology that will provide rapid and accurate measurement of kidney function. This technology will provide hospitals an important new tool for diagnosing kidney p...
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WI |
2007 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
8 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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The method for making influenza vaccines hasn’t changed much since it was first created in the 1930s: A team of experts decides which viruses to target. Then chicken eggs are injected with the viruses and grown to create the vaccine. However, a...
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NY |
2008 |
Stony Brook University
|
14 |
Behavior/Education |
NSF
|
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General Sentiment is a technology company that produces comprehensive research products to help marketing, sales and communications executives evaluate their brands’ performance in the media and assess return on investment.
Across the In...
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GA |
2001 |
Emory University
|
12 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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In 1998 Dr. Harriet Robinson and her research team at the Emory Vaccine Center and Yerkes National Primate Research Center began working on a vaccine that could fight off HIV in uninfected people and potentially reduce the virus in those already infe...
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MA |
2006 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
|
3 |
Med Imaging |
DOD
|
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Formed by experienced researchers in medical ultrasound and computer engineering, ImagiSonix is dedicated to furthering the portability and accessibility of diagnostic ultrasound imaging. The company seeks to:
• Make diagnostic capabilities ...
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IN |
2006 |
Indiana University
|
2 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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For those with advanced lung disease or damage, a lung transplant has been a way to buy a little more time. However, patients who receive newly transplanted lungs have just a 50/50 chance of being alive five years later. ImmuneWorks researchers say t...
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IL |
1997 |
University of Chicago
|
13 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH +
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Chicago-based Integrated Genomics specializes in research in microbial genomics, biochemistry, and gene expression. These products and services are based on ERGO™, a web-based genome analysis platform. The company’s scientists have broad ...
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NE |
1987 |
University of Nebraska
|
40 |
Instrumentation |
DOD +
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Starting as a spin-off from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the J.A. Woollam Company has rapidly grown to become a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of spectroscopic ellipsometers for non-destructive thin film and bulk material characterizati...
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NY |
2003 |
University at Buffalo
|
12 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Kinex Pharmaceuticals is developing next generation anti-cancer drugs that target the molecular basis of disease. The company uses a proprietary technology platform to generate compounds that inhibit the Protein Kinase and Phosphatase family of prote...
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CA |
2002 |
University of Southern California
|
50 |
Translation |
DOD
|
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Language Weaver provides organizations with the ability to translate large volumes of information into one or more languages, at high speed and with great accuracy.
Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight and William Wong founded the company in 2002 when Marcu a...
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PA |
2006 |
Lehigh University
|
6 |
Remediation |
EPA +
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Lehigh Nanotech’s product is used to clean up landfills, former chemical and manufacturing plants, and superfund sites.
The technology, invented at Lehigh University by Dr. Wei-xian Zhang, is used to clean up a wide range of soil and groundwat...
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IL |
2002 |
University of Chicago
|
7 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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Maroon Biotech has developed a new category of pharmaceuticals called surfactant chaperones. This technology has the capability to restore structure and viability to cells disrupted by physical and chemical trauma. By reversing post-traumatic molecul...
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NY |
2002 |
Stony Brook University
|
17 |
Industrial |
DOD
|
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MesoScribe specializes in manufacturing harsh environment sensors and structurally integrated electronics using its proprietary Mesoplasma™ Direct Write (DW) Technology. Direct Write devices are robust and reliable, and process automation enabl...
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PA |
2003 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
9 |
Med Imaging |
NIH +
|
|
MicroMRI, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel and innovative products that perform high resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of bone micro-architecture with subsequent detailed visualization of bone...
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NY |
2006 |
Binghamton University
|
6 |
Energy |
NSF
|
|
Founded by three seasoned nanotechnologists at Binghamton University, NanoMas Technologies, Inc., creates nanotechnology innovations in the emerging areas of printable electronics, renewable energy and high-performance chip packaging. NanoMas’s...
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FL |
2004 |
University of South Florida
|
8 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH +
|
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Nanopharma Technologies, Inc., a “spin-out” company at the University of South Florida (USF), got its start in 2004 when it won two federal Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants for development of anti-anthrax antibiotics and d...
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FL |
2004 |
University of South Florida
|
6 |
Nutrition |
NIH
|
|
Natura Therapeutics was founded by scientists from the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa with the mission to become a leading provider of cell-targeted nutrition for the health supplement and vitamin industry.
In 2008, USF and Natura Therap...
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|
MA |
2003 |
Northeastern University
|
15 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NSF
|
|
NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, early stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antibiotics.
The Company’s founding scientists, Northeastern University professors Kim Lewis, Ph.D., and Slava Epstein, Ph.D...
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NY |
1985 |
University at Buffalo
|
26 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
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ONY, Inc. was formed to commercialize InfaSurf, a lung surfactant developed by two professors of pediatrics at the University at Buffalo (UB).
InfaSurf was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1999 for the prevention and treatment of r...
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CA |
2004 |
Cornell University
|
10 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH +
|
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Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) is a biotechnology company developing a transformative Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing platform. PacBio’s goal is to commercialize SMRT™ DNA sequencing technology, eventually enabling se...
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NY |
2003 |
City University of New York (CUNY)
|
6 |
Nanotech |
DOE +
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Phoebus Optoelectronics was founded in 2003 to transition technology and commercialize nanotechnology, metamaterials, photonic and optical devices developed by the founders and the researchers at the Metamaterials Laboratory at the City College of Ci...
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PA |
2002 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
16 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH +
|
|
PolyMedix focuses on developing novel high-value therapeutic drug products for serious, life-threatening acute disorders. The company specializes in biomimetics — novel small molecule compounds and polymers that mimic the activity of proteins. ...
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|
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WV |
2001 |
West Virginia University
|
21 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Protea Biosciences, founded in 2001, is a biotechnology manufacturing and marketing company whose products are used to improve the discovery and analysis of proteins found in biological samples and to aid the development of new protein-based ph...
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|
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MD |
2001 |
Johns Hopkins University
|
25 |
Industrial |
NSF
|
|
Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (RNT) was founded in 2001 by two Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professors to develop and manufacture the company’s patented technology, NanoFoil®.
NanoFoil® is us...
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MA |
1987 |
Columbia University
|
6 |
Mil/Homeland |
NSF +
|
|
RemoteReality designs and manufactures next-generation intelligent-omni-video systems with real-time 360-degree viewing and analysis software for continuous surveillance, security and other applications supporting military, government and commercial ...
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CA |
1999 |
University of Southern California
|
40 |
Med Device/Diagnostic |
NIH
|
|
Response Genetics (RGI) is focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. RGI’s technologies enable extraction and analysis of genetic information from tumor samples stored as formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded ...
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|
|
GA |
2004 |
Emory University
|
11 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
RFS Pharma (Tucker, Georgia) is a privately held pharmaceutical company focused on discovering new drugs to treat HIV, hepatitis B and C and other viral infections. The most advanced product is amdoxovir (AMDX), which is in advanced Phase 2 clinical ...
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FL |
2001 |
University of South Florida
|
4 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Saneron-CCEL Therapeutics is focused on neurological and cardiac cell therapy for the early intervention and treatment of several devastating or deadly diseases which currently lack adequate treatment options, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Sane...
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MA |
2005 |
Brown University
|
21 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NSF
|
|
Seaside Therapeutics founders understand the toll that brain development disorders, including autism and mental retardation, take on families and share the sense of frustration that effective therapeutics are still not available despite recent scient...
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NC |
2005 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai...
|
30 |
Energy |
DOD +
|
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Semprius is developing low cost, high performance concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules to make solar power generation economically viable in sunny, dry climates. The company’s unique micro-transfer printing technology enables CPV modules wit...
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|
MI |
2003 |
Wayne State University
|
8 |
Industrial |
NSF
|
|
SenSound offers software, systems and services for noise source identification and noise related quality control testing.
Dr. Sean F. Wu, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Wayne State University’s College of Engineering, dev...
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|
|
FL |
2007 |
University of Florida
|
5 |
Antibac/Sterilization |
DOD
|
|
Sharklet Technologies, named one of the top biotech startups in the Southeast, has developed an innovative surface technology (mimicking the antimicrobial properties of shark skin) that can prevent hospital-acquired infections. The technology control...
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|
|
FL |
2002 |
University of Florida
|
15 |
Nanotech |
DOE +
|
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Sinmat is an emerging materials nanotechnology company developing new processes for polishing semiconductor wafers. Sinmat produces slurry that makes it cheaper to produce silicon wafers. The company designed new polishing techniques to enable the in...
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|
CA |
2006 |
University of California, Los Angeles
|
26 |
Energy |
DOD +
|
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Using technology developed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Solarmer Energy seeks to overcome one of the significant barriers to broader use of solar technology — its cost. According to Solarmer, their solar panels have the ...
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|
MA |
2007 |
New York University
|
10 |
Software/Hardware |
NSF
|
|
Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) has developed novel magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices for non-volatile computer memory. It belongs to a class of memory devices that utilize a quantum mechanical effect known as spin transfer ...
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|
NY |
2004 |
Stony Brook University
|
1 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Stony Brook Biotechnology, LLC was formed by Dr. Anil Dhundale to develop and commercialize a diagnostic test based on proprietary biomarkers discovered at Stony Brook University. The commercial goal is to enable microsphere-based transcript profilin...
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GA |
1999 |
Emory University
|
5 |
Med Imaging |
NIH
|
|
Syntermed, Inc. is an Atlanta-based nuclear medicine imaging and informatics software company. The company’s lead product is a software package called Emory Cardiac ToolboxTM (ECTbTM). Today, the Emory Cardiac Toolbox is in nearly half of all n...
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PA |
2004 |
Princeton University
|
17 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops small molecule drugs that modulate programmed cell death pathways to treat debilitating diseases and conditions.
Professor Yigong Shi, formerly of P...
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IL |
2006 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai...
|
10 |
Bio Fuels/Chem |
DOE +
|
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TetraVitae Bioscience is developing bio-based chemical, plastics and fuels. Their focus is the production of biobutanol using a proprietary fermentation process and enhanced microorganism platform. Their biobutanol technology has demonstrated signifi...
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IN |
1996 |
Indiana University
|
15 |
Dental |
NIH
|
|
The roots of Therametric Technologies, Inc. (TTI) date back to the mid-1990s, when Dr. George Stookey and his Indiana University School of Dentistry colleagues, Dr. Mostafa Analoui and Dr. Mark Saxen learned about a promising laser light-scattering t...
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|
|
MI |
1994 |
Michigan Technological University
|
30 |
Industrial |
DOD
|
|
ThermoAnalytics, Inc. provides software and engineering services in the area of thermal modeling and analysis for civilian and military applications — including infrared signature modeling, climate control design and optimization, and component...
|
|
|
FL |
2002 |
University of South Florida
|
6 |
Biotech/Pharma |
DOE +
|
|
Transgenex uses nanoparticle technology to create diagnostic and disease-treatment products. More specifically, Transgenex uses a unique gene expression and delivery technology to discover and develop nanoparticle formations to diagnose and treat acu...
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|
|
NY |
1997 |
University of Rochester
|
50 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
Vaccinex is a biotechnology company that develops human monoclonal antibody technology to treat a variety of serious diseases. While the technology has many applications, one promising use is for the identification of certain proteins called monoclon...
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|
PA |
2000 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
27 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH
|
|
VGX Pharmaceuticals was formed in 2000 to focus on the discovery and development of novel vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases, including HIV, and cancer. In June 2009, the company completed a merger with Inovio Biomedical Corporation. Inov...
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NE |
2006 |
University of Nebraska
|
2 |
Robotics |
DOD +
|
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Virtual Incision Corporation will develop, build, and commercialize the first inexpensive, remotely operated, in vivo, miniature robotic surgical tools and camera systems to operate within the abdominal cavity. These remotely controlled robots can be...
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NY |
2002 |
Binghamton University
|
7 |
Internet |
NSF
|
|
Webscalers aims to develop search systems that can produce more accurate, current and complete search results than mainstream search engines such as Google. Its large-scale metasearch engine technology makes it possible to connect to numerous special...
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NE |
1993 |
University of Nebraska
|
3 |
Biotech/Pharma |
NIH +
|
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Ximerex, Inc. is dedicated to the treatment of tissue and organ failure by transplanting cells, tissues, and organs from pigs with either no or minimal anti-rejection drugs. For example, patients with type 1 diabetes have lost the insulin producing c...
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MD |
2006 |
University of Maryland
|
8 |
Bio Fuels/Chem |
DOE +
|
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Zymetis, Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops enzyme technologies for biofuel production. Derived from unique organisms, Zymetis products are designed to achieve lower costs, improved yields and higher manufacturing efficiencies in the conve...
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