Awards

This story was originally published by North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 71 grants and loans totaling $2,757,090 to universities, bioscience companies and non-profit organizations in the third quarter of its fiscal year.

This story was originally published by UNCW.

The North Carolina Ecosystem Technology project has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, to develop an economic engine that could rapidly improve the quality of life in rural coastal communities using ecosystem technology, or ecotech, an emerging branch of applied science.