Posts Tagged ‘RTI’
RTI broadens energy research with federal greenbacks
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:54 am 1 Comment | Post a CommentTechnologies that promise to lower greenhouse gas emissions and demand for U.S. oil imports are becoming more prominent on RTI International’s research smorgasbord, which has featured efforts in a related field, air pollution monitoring, as a reliable staple for the past 30 years.
RTI energy lab (Photo courtesy of RTI)
One of the founding members of the Research Triangle Energy Consortium three years ago, RTI has scientists working on projects that include the capture and reuse of carbon dioxide - the most prominent greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere - production of bio-crude from organic waste and a nanotechnology light bulb that promises to be more energy efficient than a fluorescent light and doesn’t contain harmful mercury.
Stimulus funds the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded in the past year to help the economy recover fueled RTI’s stepped-up energy research. Of the institute’s $750 million in estimated revenue this year, energy research will contribute about $12.5 million, said RTI spokesman Patrick Gibbons.
RTP Wrapup 1/8
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 9:38 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentResearch in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smart phones, plans to open a research and development office in Raleigh, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill figure out how to stop infecting bacteria in their tracks and RTI International looks for new business opportunities with the help of a new division and a hire. Read more…
RTP Wrapup 12/11
Friday, December 11, 2009, 12:11 am No Comments | Post a CommentTranzyme Pharma signs on to help Bristol-Myers Squibb fight generic competition, RTI International receives a $101 million contract to fight malaria in Africa and a drug safety expert at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences teams up with a geneticist at N.C. State University to find out why some patients have serious liver reactions to otherwise safe drugs. Read more…
RTI study: The cost of mandatory emissions controls
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 10:03 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentDuring a week of climate discussions in Copenhagen and Washington, RTI International released results from a study that looks at the costs of mandatory emissions controls.
The RTI analysis is based on the “Blueprint for Legislative Action,” a plan by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership that includes mandatory reductions of CO2 emissions. The partnership, which is a group of businesses and environmental organizations, recommended emissions reductions of 80 percent to 89 percent by 2020 and a 58 percent by 2030. Read more…
RTI study: 27 percent of adult health-care spending due to disability
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:53 pm No Comments | Post a CommentThe 15 percent of American adults who report a disability account for about 27 percent of U.S. adult health-care spending, according to a recently released study by RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more…
RTI Fellows Symposium: Integrating Basic and Applied Research
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 5:44 pm No Comments | Post a CommentRTI Fellows Symposium was a two-day event at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill. This was also the first time I saw the Friday Center from within and I was looking at it with the eyes of a conference organizer. It has a Goldilocks quality to it: not so pleasant, intimate and science-themed as Sigma Xi, and not as big, cold and corporate as the Raleigh Convention Center. Just the right size and feel. But expensive as hell - Sigma Xi has been good to us over the years, not sure if we could negotiate a similar deal with Friday…..though we have definitely grown and a 420-seat main conference room at Friday Center looks good.
RTP Wrapup 11/13
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 5:24 pm No Comments | Post a CommentTalecris Biotherapeutics finally has money to go ahead with expansion plans in Clayton, Duke University picks Indian company to develop discoveries of its medical faculty and Pfizer will close two former Wyeth research and development centers in the Research Triangle Park area.
RTP Wrapup 11/6
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 5:40 pm No Comments | Post a CommentQuintiles Transnational scores drug research contracts that cover whole development areas, Stiefel Laboratories shutters operations in Florida and Georgia and consolidates efforts in Research Triangle Park and a symposium organized by RTI International exposes research gaps.
Global warming worries drive biofuels research
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 3:32 pm No Comments | Post a CommentThe recession has tempered America’s voracious appetite for energy and $4-a-gallon gasoline is last year’s bad dream. But economics no longer dominate the search for alternatives to fossil fuels, the source of more than 80 percent of the world’s energy.
Government funding for research is up sharply from five years ago, so are concerns about global warming.
Genes as weather vanes for disease
Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:33 pm No Comments | Post a CommentImagine a chemist, a bioethicist, a pharmacist and a physician come together to discuss personalized medicine. The last thing you expect them to talk about is the need to wear matching jackets like TV weather forecasters.
But that’s exactly what a panel of experts did Monday at the RTI Fellows Symposium at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
