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- Proposals funded during 2003 competition
- South Carolina Brain Imaging Center of Excellence
- South Carolina Center for Regenerative Medicine
- Nanostructures in Technology:
The Future Electronics Program
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- 16 Proposals for the 2004 competition
- Fuel cells (3)
- Carolina Laser Lighting Center of Economic Excellence (CLC)
- Center of Excellence for Technology and Innovation Management
- Polymer Nanocomposites
- Tourism (with Coastal Carolina)
- Biomedical (collaborative with MUSC) (9)
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- This initiative could make South Carolina a repository for stem
cells or a source of biomaterials or biologically developed tissue
substitutes that attract new biotech firms or venture capitalists.
- Present cell repositories currently range from small "cell
banks" employing 8-10 PhD and non-PhD level employees to those
offering a range of services including research that employ more
than 300 individuals at the MD, PhD, MS and technical graduate levels.
- Exploits complementary strength of the three institutions
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- Will create a world-class brain imaging center and industrial
cluster spanning MUSC and USC by bridging together the complementary
expertise in our two universities, we will create a research center
in brain imaging that can provide expertise necessary to make MUSC
and USC competitive for multi-million dollar federal grants and
contracts.
- Direct clinical and research uses and benefits
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- The USC NanoCenter Chair for Experimental Nanoscale Physics is
designed to be the foundation of the Future Electronics Program
that will position South Carolina to compete in the global market
for electronic devices.
- Long-term potential is significant and funding of center provides
significant boost to stature of Nanocenter
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- Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs of abuse, as well
as gambling and high calorie foods is a significant medical and
social problem in the State of South Carolina.
- Drug addiction is a prime contributor to the fact that South Carolina
leads the nation in traffic fatalities and is the near the bottom
in high school retention.
- Recent advances in understanding the neurobiology of addiction
are attracting unprecedented amounts of investment dollars from
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
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- The strong research program in plant biotechnology at USC has
led to commercial applications in agriculture and is currently attracting
support from commercial agri-businesses.
- If funded, we will establish a Center of Agricultural Biotechnology
to strengthen ties to industry, promote establishment of local biotechnology/processing
firms that will exploit the new technologies and provide trained
workers for the new companies that would be attracted to the area.
- The Center will focus on an area of plant biotechnology that has
strong potential for positive economic impact in South Carolina—Molecular
farming.
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- Establish a world-class center for Alzheimer’s disease research.
- This center will not only secure additional research funding to
MUSC and USC, but is expected to support at least two new private
sector businesses.
- These firms will bring new economic activity to South Carolina,
in the form of new jobs and sales to international clients of the
pharmaceutical products they will develop and clinical trials they
will conduct.
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- Center for Implantable Biomaterials offers the opportunity for
the University of South Carolina (USC) and the Medical University
of South Carolina (MUSC) to collaboratively establish an internationally
recognized program that will support the development and commercialization
of a novel silicon carbide (SiC) biomaterial as a platform technology
for orthopaedics and other implantable applications.
- Plan to attract an orthopaedic
surgeon as a distinguished chair with expertise in biomaterials
and translational research to bring this technology to clinical
trial. This program will bring SC to the forefront of the field
of orthopaedic biomaterials.
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- This unique Center will break ground for a new era of cooperation
and collaboration between three superb State institutions: MUSC,
USC and CofC.
- The Center will attract and retain talent in bioinformatics, computational
information science and systems biology and promote the education
of the next generation of professionals who are trained in both
computer-aided and experimental biology and possess the necessary
analytical skills to relate genomic and proteomic data to structural
and functional information and insight at the molecular and, ultimately,
clinical levels.
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- Center is part of a long-term
strategy to supplement the petroleum-energy economy with a renewable-hydrogen
economy.
- The significant from the the
projections of a doubling in the demand for electricity in North
America and the need for the equivalent of 100-500 large power plants
by 2030.
- The US Department of Energy projects hydrogen from biomass to
be one of those sources in the next 30 years and projections for
a Europe and Japan include a market of biomass-based hydrogen fuel
cells much sooner.
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- As both a practical and financial endeavor, the discovery and
development of new anticancer drugs is a high priority goal.
- Currently, annual sales of drugs run into the billions of dollars
and considerable resources are devoted to improving therapeutic
interventions in cancer.
- NIH has a funding priority
for investigator initiated research programs that target development
and characterization of new drugs. In order to leverage such grants,
academic investigators benefit significantly from direct associations
with the pharmaceutical sector.
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- Establish a Center of Economic Excellence (CoEE) for Fuel Cells
and an Endowed Professorship for Sensors.
- Sensors are ubiquitous in the present economy and the development
of new sensors for fuel cells, medical devices, and automobiles
is a growth industry.
- Produce near-term opportunities for growth because sensors are
typically manufactured by small businesses and the intellectual
property is created by small teams.
- Lleverage the opportunities created by the new NSF Industry/ University
Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells.
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- This Center and Endowed Professorship, by fostering education,
research and outreach for innovation in hydrogen storage and infrastructure
throughout SC, will augment the existing NSF I/UCRC for Fuel Cells
by nurturing interactions with other universities in the State with
an interest in materials science and hydrogen related issues, and
by attracting small businesses to the State with an interest in
hydrogen storage and infrastructure, in general.
- he Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) will play a key
role in helping to establish this center.
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- The Carolina Laser Lighting Center of Economic Excellence (CLC)”
and a Carolina Laser Lighting Endowed Professorship at the University
of South Carolina (USC) will serve as the hub for innovative Photonics
and Microelectronics (PM) Research, which is imperative for the
State of South Carolina to transition to a high-tech economy.
- The CLC will facilitate and ensure the creation of entirely new
American industries that will have a tremendous impact in the areas
of environmental protection, homeland security, biology, medicine,
and quality of life.
- This will be done by creating innovative building blocks for microelectronic,
optoelectronic and integrated optics in the visible and deep ultraviolet
(UV) part of the spectrum (200-600 nanometers).
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- The Polymer Nanocomposites Center of Excellence will position
South Carolina to compete in the global market for polymer nanocomposites.
- Nanotechnology and its application to polymer materials is inherently
a high tech endeavor, our plastics industry can be converted into
a high-tech, information-based industry.
- Creation of new “smart materials” that contain information-rich
nanoscale particles with accessible information to direct the activities
of the user is a vision of nanotechnology.
- The Polymer Nanocomposites Program has the potential to make our
state the preeminent producers of future polymeric materials.
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- Clemson, MUSC, and USC have joined forces and committed $1.2M
in seed funding with a goal of creating a vibrant nutrition and
health research industry that will result in new economic partnerships,
a healthier workforce, and new job opportunities for South Carolinians.
- South Carolina is ranked in the top 10 in the nation in obesity,
cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
- More than 50% of SC adults and as many as 20% of SC children
are overweight or obese resulting in an array of chronic disease
problems and premature deaths.
- In addition more than 50%
of hospitalized patients are at risk for nutrition problems, leading
to longer hospital stays, re-admissions and increased health care
costs.
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- The Moore School of Business is seeking to hire a chaired professor
in the area of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM).
- This chair holder will lead the TIM Center of Economic Excellence
(COEE) which will be a national and state focal point to research
the requirements for taking applied research and converting it into
commercially viable products
- Serve all institutions in the state inclujding Clemson, MUSC,
and USC
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- The Center will focus on three areas important to the development
of technology use in travel and tourism businesses:
- Assist technology developers and travel and tourism businesses
establish and adopt technological standards use in hardware, software
and web based applications
- Discovery and testing of new technological applications with
newly established industry standards, and
- Evaluate the managerial implications of new technology on organizational
structures in gaining efficiency in corporate structures.
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- Studies estimate that over 65% of the individuals in the United
States today will suffer from a major eye disease during their lifetime.
- Market capitalization for the eye care industry in the US now
exceeds 30 billion dollars.
- The mission of the center is to utilize cutting-edge technology
to discover and develop novel therapies for the prevention and treatment
of eye diseases.
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