Related to CIRM Okays $27M for Two Funds, Proposes Stem Cell Bank with $30M in Awards

• Wellcome Trust Awards University of Dundee, GSK £8.6M for Tropical Disease Therapies
  
• DoD Awards MediVector $138.5M for Broad Spectrum Flu Therapeutic
  
• Academia-Industry Project Secures $38.7M for Autism Spectrum Disorders
  
• Proteome Sciences to Carry Out Biomarker Analyses for €11M EU-Funded Stroke Hypothermia Trial
  
• Alzheimer’s Association Puts $4.2M into Initiative to Speed Drug, Biomarker Trials
  
• Cepheid Gets $1.3M to Develop Sample Prep Methods for Detecting Bloodstream Bacteria
  
• Asuragen to Receive $6.8M from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
  
• New York Genome Center Gets $3M from Sloan Foundation
  
• DiaKine Awarded $2.1M in Grants from NIH, Iacocca Foundation for Diabetes Therapy
  
• To-BBB Wins MJFF Funding to Support Preclinical Brain-Targeting Parkinson Disease Drug
  
• EU Funds Denator, University Collaboration to Develop Cancer Biomarker Platform
  
• TAP, UCL Receive Additional Funding to Take Biomimetic Cornea into Human Safety Study
  
• Ark Wins €6M EU Funding to Develop Gene Therapy for Fetal Growth Restriction in Pregnancy
  
• Profectus Wins $5.4M NIAID Grant for rVSV Vaccine Against Ebola and Marburg Viruses
  
• University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute Awarded $10M
  
• ActiveSite Wins $1.3M to Complete Preclinical Development of Oral Diabetic Macular Edema Drug
  
• Kineta, Universities of Washington and Texas Win $8.1M for Antiviral Biodefense Drugs
  
• Accelr8, Denver Health Win $2M to Develop Battlefield Infections Diagnostic
  
• U.S. Govt Adds $32M to $512M Smallpox Vaccine Contract with Bavarian Nordic
  
• Firefly Bags $500K from Massachusetts Life Science Center for miRNA Biomarker Platform