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The University of Massachusetts reports it has granted $200,000 to researchers at its Amherst, Lowell and Worcester campuses.
UMass’ Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property Technology Development Fund distributed the grants to researchers in life sciences, polymer chemistry, computer science and engineering. The fund has given out $1.1 million since its founding in 2004, according to UMass.
The following researchers won $25,000 grants:
• Chul Park, UMass Amherst Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: “A New Sludge and Nutrient Reduction Method for Wastewater Treatment”
• Surita Bhatia and Susan Roberts, UMass Amherst Department of Chemical Engineering: The group is developing techniques to create stable hydrogels with oxygen-carrying domains, which could be cast onto gauzes, creating wound dressings with improved oxygen transport to the wound site, to speed healing.
• Uri Galili, UMass Medical School Department of Surgery: Galili is studying the application of a-gal liposomes to wounds, to speed up healing.
• Weibo Gong and Sheng Xiao, UMass Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering Department: The group is working on using communication randomness, such as transmission errors, as security shields against hackers.
• Michael Green, UMass Medical School Program in Gene Function and Expression: Green has identified a protein-encoder which supresses tumors.
• Alonzo Ross UMass Medical School Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology: Ross is developing a treatment for glioblastoma brain tumors.
• Daniel Schmidt, UMass Lowell Department of Plastics Engineering: Schmidt is developing replacement technology for bisphenol A in epoxy can liners for metal food and beverage cans.
• Ramaswamy Nagarajan and Jayant Kumar, UMass Lowell Department of Plastics Engineering, Department of Physics and Applied Physics and Center for Advanced Materials: The group is developing greener flame retardant materials.
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