NSBRI Industry Forum Announces SMARTCAP Funding Awards
Two small U.S. companies are the recipients of the 2012 Space Medicine and Related Technologies Commercialization Assistance Program (SMARTCAP) award. ACell, Inc., of Columbia, M.D., and Enterade USA LLC of Newberry, FL, each received a SMARTCAP award to help in moving their health care products toward commercialization as they address unmet health needs in space and on Earth. SMARTCAP is a new competitive program launched by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute's (NSBRI) Industry Forum.
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July 26, 2012
DRAPER LAB'S DALE LARSON DISCUSSES CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SOFTWARE
Industry Forum Steering Council Member Dale Larson, Director of Biomedical Systems at Draper Laboratory, spoke at the BioScience Research Collaborative on the topic of IMEDS, their integrated platform for realtime decision support at the bedside.
July 17, 2012
BIOHOUSTON BREAKFAST FORUM JULY 17
The July Breakfast Forum will feature Keynote Speaker Brett Giroir, M.D., Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives at Texas A&M University. Dr. Giroir will be speaking about the $1.5 Billion BARDA grant to Texas and what it means for the state.
7:30 am - 9:00 am
Trevisio Restaurant
Register Now - Registration must be received by 3 pm July 16.
June 29, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS, DR. LYDIC
The NSBRI Industry Forum congratulates Dr. Ralph Lydic, NSBRI External Advisory Council member, on being one of two awardees of the highly prestigious Excellence in Research Award of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
May 17, 2012
INDUSTRY FORUM STEERING COUNCIL GETS SleepFit
The NSBRI Industry Forum Steering Council recently hosted SMARTCAP Awardee Pulsar Informatics for an information session at the new NSBRI Consolidated Research Facility. The Steering Council enjoyed testing out the new SmartFit Android app recently released on the Android Marketplace and competing to see who had the fastest response times and best performance. Android phone users can download the app now from
http://bit.ly/Jeljc5.
The product is a spinoff of the PVT test developed by Pulsar Informatics with support from NSBRI for use by astronauts during spaceflight to help them determine their fatigue levels. The app was developed using funding from the NSBRI Industry Forum’s SMARTCAP program and matching funding from Schneider Trucking, who will use the new app to monitor fatigue and performance in long-haul truck drivers.
The app offers an alarm clock and sleep log, in addition to the response-time test, so users can observe the direct effect of their sleep levels on their physical performance.
April 26, 2012
NSBRI HOSTS OFFICIAL OPENING OF NEW FACILITY
Members of the NSBRI Industry Forum Steering Council were on hand for the Official Opening of the Consolidated Research Facliity being shared by NSBRI and Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine. Rice University created an
outstanding video of the event.
March 19, 2012