The US Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a six year $6.5 million (£3.4 million) grant to found the Centre for Sustainable Energy Research at the California Institute of Technology. Research will be pursued in solar-driven sustainable energy technologies to replace the use of fossil fuels, including methanol fuel cells made from renewable sources.
The US Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH) has been awarded a $46 million (£24 million) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research combating diarrhoeal diseases, the leading cause of death in children under five years of age.
The University of Minnesota Centre for Drug Design, US, has been awarded a $2.5 million (£1.3 million), five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research into antidotes for cyanide poisoning.
UK based nanotechnology firm Akubio has received a £826,000 government grant to develop its hand-held disease diagnosis device. The company claims the device will enable instant diagnoses for diseases such as malaria and meningitis.
A grant of £420,000 has been awarded to the University of Surrey, UK to develop cancer treatments using carbon nanotubes. The grant is part of an international project supported by the European Union under the Marie Curie Scheme. The Surrey team's previous research has made carbon nanotubes biocompatible by wrapping DNA and RNA around them. The aim of the new project is to use other molecules to target them towards cancer cells.
- The Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network, hosted by the RSC and supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, has been instrumental in securing a DTI collaborative R&D grant in regenerative medicine technologies worth over £1.7 million. The lead partner in the research collaboration is London-based biotech firm Plasticell, which develops regenerative small molecule drugs.
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