Science Market Update

University of Alabama to Profit from Research & Development Tax Incentive

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Wed, Mar 28, 2012

One of the ways to encourage companies to invest in research is to offer them a tax credit incentive, and that's exactly what many states do, including, soon, Alabama.  If the company does their own research, they get one tax break, but if they have it done by a public research institution like the University of Alabama, they get a much larger break: 15% under Alabama's proposed new law. That's good news for UAB, UAT, and other major research campuses in the state. And the rate may be even higher if Alabama tries to match North Carolina's incentive, which just went up to 20%.

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Tags: New research facilities, Alabama, University of Alabama Birmingham, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Funding, Birmingham, Southern Region

New Cardiovascular Research Center to Grow UAB Funding, Faculty, & Labs

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Tue, Feb 14, 2012

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Tags: Biomedical expansion, cardiovascular research, Alabama, University of Alabama Birmingham, Southern Region

Current Science Events and More Found on Emory News Center

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Tue, Feb 07, 2012

Emory University has created an intriguing new online news center that collects diverse, captivating multimedia content on a single web-based platform. The Emory News Center launched on January 26th and will be able to reach audiences through a variety of media channels. The approximately 4 million annual visitors to Emory’s website will be able to access exciting new online features and services now that the site has launched.

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Tags: Emory University, Georgia, Atlanta, Southern Region, Emory News Center, News Center

Duke Research Funding Strong + Biotech Hub Success in Recent Studies

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Thu, Jan 05, 2012

In two recent articles published on business websites, Duke University emerges as being especially strong in both industry research funding (as it matches public funding) and its position within a growing biotech hub (the Research Triangle formed by Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina).  What these studies indicate is that Duke is succeeding as a research university in ways that its rivals may not be able to match and that bode well for its growth in the future.  Both articles suggest that one of Duke's strengths is its relationship to industry in the region, for developing its technology as well as bringing in new funding for its research.

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Tags: Duke University, North Carolina, biotech industry, industry news, Southern Region

Marketing Biotechnology Research at the Univ of Alabama Birmingham

Posted by BCI Staff on Sat, Apr 23, 2011


The biotechnology sector is growing and graduate students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Master's Program in Biotechnology are ready to build their careers (and Birmingham's biotech future) on that promise.  While there are several innovative business-science hybrid master's programs that have emerged recently in the US (see our two April 12 blogs), UA's is the first in the South and unique in its approach.

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Tags: Alabama, University of Alabama Birmingham, industry news, Southern Region

Duke Biomedical Engineering Research Gets $20M Endowment Funding

Posted by BCI Staff on Wed, Apr 20, 2011


Wallace Coulter was not only a fantastically successful inventor of diagnostics equipment, but through the philanthropic Coulter Foundation he continues to promote medical innovation at over 10 universities across the US.  Duke University has just received a $10 million commitment to permanently endow its Coulter Translational Partnership in biomedical engineering, which, combined with grants from the Fitzpatrick Foundation and other Duke resources brings the program's endowed resources to $20 million, securing its long term future.

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Tags: Duke University, North Carolina, Translational Research, Research Funding, Durham, Southern Region

Duke University Goodall Life Sciences Research Archive Gets Visit

Posted by BCI Staff on Mon, Apr 04, 2011

The Jane Goodall Institute was established in 1977 when young researcher Anne Pusey returned from Africa with boxes of Goodall's hard data: handwritten observations of chimp behavior from what would become the Gombe Preserve in Tanzania.  Those boxes went with Pusey to the University of Minnesota, where the long process of curation and (eventual) digitation began.  The Goodall Institute now has its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, where it focuses on education, community development, and conservation, as well as research and management of its chimp sanctuary in the Congo.

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Tags: Duke University, North Carolina, animal science, Durham, Southern Region

Duke School of Medicine Dean Andrews speaks on Commitment to Research

Posted by BCI Staff on Mon, Mar 14, 2011

Dean Andrews at Duke

On February 22, 2011, Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., gave her State of the School Address.  Part 4 of that speech was devoted to Duke's "Commitment to Research Infrastructure."  The full text of that section of the speech is available in the transcription below, or on the original video

(Photo courtesy of Duke University)

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Tags: Duke University, North Carolina, Durham, industry news, Southern Region

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