NCBiotech Awards $2.1 Million in Grants, Loans | North Carolina Biotechnology Center
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The awards, made in the second quarter of the Biotech Center’s fiscal year, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, will support life science research and technology commercialization throughout North Carolina and help companies attract follow-on funding from other sources. • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received $100,000 to evaluate a gene therapy approach to preventing or reversing vision loss due to corneal clouding in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis VI. • Wake Forest University Health Sciences received $110,000 to improve the production process for making sufficient quantities of small adenovirus proteins used in gene therapy. • Lenoir-Rhyne University received $1,120 for the 117th Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science, where undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists will share their research through symposia and poster sessions and discuss scientifically sound solutions to relevant problems. • The North Carolina Arboretum Society received $2,097 for its third Growing Color Symposium, which will bring together farmers, growers, business people, artists and experts in the field of natural textile dyeing.
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