Grants and loans

BT Catalyst, July-August, 2005

Affinergy of Research Triangle Park, $50,000 Collaborative Funding Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Biophysical Characterizations of Interfacial Biomaterial Peptide Coatings" in concert with Duke University.

Affinergy, $256,000 Phase 1 SBIR Grant from National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for screening Affinergy's proprietary peptide libraries to find new molecules that mimic the positive clinical effects of growth factors currently on the market such as bone morphogenic proteins.

Biolink Life Sciences of Cary, $105,364 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "Stability of New, Iron-replete Total Nutrient Admixtures."

East Carolina University, $150,000 Faculty Recruitment Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for recruitment of a Director of the Program in Lung Cell Biology and Translational Research.

Encelle of Raleigh, $555,423 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for part four of a multi-year project, "Promotion of Wound Vascularization and Closure."

Ercole Biotech of Durham, $150,000 Small Business Research Award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Oligonucleotide-induced In Vivo Production of Enbrel-like Soluble TNF-a Receptor."

Hemocellular Therapeutics of Chapel Hill, $100,000 Collaborative Funding Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Rational Matrix Design for Surface Hemostasis" in concert with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Novozymes North America of Franklinton, $40,000 Collaborative Funding Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Novel Methods to Quantify Enzyme Activity in Lignocellulosic Substrates" in concert with North Carolina State University.

Phase Bioscience of Durham, $75,000 SBIR Bridge Loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Low Cost Production of Recombinant Peptides"

PPD of Wilmington, $2,716,690 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for "Data Coordinating Center for Organ Transplant Clinical Trials."

Qualyst of Research Triangle Park, $148,615 Small Business Research Award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Development of Novel Absorption Enhancers."

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $150,000 Faculty Recruitment Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for the recruitment of a senior research professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Vesta Therapeutics of Research Triangle Park, $100,000 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "Adipose Derived Adult Stem Cells in Hepatic Regeneration."

XINTEK of Chapel Hill, $98,000 from the Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for "Carbon Nanotube Field-Emission Micro-Focus X-Ray Tube."