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$12 Million Research Matching Grant Program
Government leaders join to launch “the next generation of innovation” in Massachusetts
BOSTON – Monday, February 11, 2008 - Governor Deval Patrick, Representative Michael Capuano, Senate President Therese Murray, and House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi gathered today to support the launch of a new $12 million research investment program funded and administered by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). Read more >> Visit MLSC site >>
'M2D2' lands $500G grant
Lowell Sun
By Michael Lafleur
December 13, 2007
LOWELL -- The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center at UMass Lowell has been awarded a $500,000 state grant to help firms begin manufacturing patent ideas.
The money is coming from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's John Adams Innovation Institute, which in February awarded the center -- a joint effort with the UMass Medical School in Worcester dubbed "M2D2" -- a $150,000 grant. That money helped leverage more than $1.3 million in federal funding to help a handful of the roughly 20 firms that scientists are working with to develop patented prototypes for U.S. Food and Drug Administration review. Read more >>
BOSTON GLOBE
Woods Hole gets $97.7m US grant
Ocean observation system to be built
By David Abel, Globe Staff | August 23, 2007
A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has won a $97.7 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observation system of buoys and robotic underwater vehicles off Cape Cod.
The award, which will be matched by a $10 million state grant, is the largest in the institution's history and comes nearly a year after Woods Hole was forced to cut jobs because of a falloff in federal money. Read more>>
GLOBE EDITORIAL
Flatlining innovation at NIH
March 26, 2007
IN THE five years between 1998 and 2003, research grants by the National Institutes of Health doubled, fueling breakthrough work on the human genome and treatments for many diseases. Progress stalled after that, however, as Congress responded to the deficits caused by tax cuts and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by flat lining the institutes' budget. On an inflation-adjusted basis, the NIH budget has actually declined by 13 percent. A commitment to rebuilding the institutes' funding -- and the inventive laboratories all over the country the NIH finances -- should be a priority for the new Congress in this year's budget and in years to come.
UMass Lowell nets $150K to help med device entrepreneurs
February 23, 2007
by Christopher Calnan
Mass High Tech
The University of Massachusetts Lowell will launch a pilot screening program for entrepreneurs, who would then develop medical product prototypes at the university, funded by a $150,000 state grant.
The grant, from the John Adams Innovation Institute, was awarded to the Mass Medical Device Development Center, or M2D2, to consider 25 entrepreneurs seeking assistance with business plans. Four entrepreneurs will eventually be selected for the program with a projection of one or two successfully competing for federal or private funds, said UMass Lowell spokeswoman Renae Lias Claffey.