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Spring 2021 Newsletter
Upcoming Events
May 2021 BYOBio and Tech Beer Virtual Event
Thursday, May 20th at 5:00 pm: David Nannemann of Rosetta Design Group will present on:
“An Antibody Assessment Pipeline for Developability Prediction and Optimization”
Register on our website: VBSA Events Page
Road to Recovery Passport: Forging a Way Forward
This virtual resource from the Vermont Chamber of Commerce is in place of the Workforce & Talent Summit. Economic, sales & marketing, health, and workforce webinars will be provided to their statewide membership and beyond.
Webinars can be accessed here: Recovery Passport – Vermont Chamber of Commerce
Vermont Chamber of Commerce Virtual Policy Series 2021
This event series explored federal and state actions impacting our business community, economic relief, and other topics over the course of March.
The recorded sessions have been made available here: Virtual Policy Series – Vermont Chamber of Commerce
Spotlight
UVM Virtual Student Research Conference
UVM Today showcases a few of the big ideas students are researching to create the fairer, greener future that many Vermonters envision. A few of the bioscience topics students are tackling include a timely project tracking disease through wastewater monitoring and AI-supported farming.
To read more about these projects visit: Student Research Takes Aim at Brighter Greener Future.
Industry News
Vermont EPSCoR Phase (0) Award Leads to SBIR Phase I Award
Precision Bioassay, Inc will receive a SBIR Phase I award from the National Institutes of Health to work on “‘Better Bioassays via Designs for Robots Analyses with Improved Model Selection and Similarity Bounds that Limit Potency Bias.” The award represents the culmination of several years of proof-of-concept research that was initially supported in 2017 through funding from Vermont EPSCoR.
Avitide Finalizes Development of AVIPure®-COV2S, an Affinity Purification Resin for Covid-19 Vaccines
Working with collaborators, Avitide has announced an affinity purification resin designed to improve the efficiency of COVID vaccine manufacturing. “The speed of global COVID-19 transmission and the urgent response by vaccine manufacturers has placed a high demand on improving vaccine manufacturing productivity. The pandemic response has also been characterized by an unprecedented degree of scientific and industry collaborations,” said Kevin Isett, PhD, Avitide’s Chief Executive Officer.
Education News
Statement on Opening for Fall 2021
After multiple semesters of adjustment to COVID circumstances, VTC is looking ahead to a return to normalcy in fall 2021. The college is currently planning a complete return to the pre-pandemic status quo, although they do anticipate some safety procedures will continue, such as masking and social distancing.
I-Trep Call for Internship Hosts
Vermont is a member of the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program, which seeks to broaden the geographic distribution of NIH funding for biomedical research. The IDeA-state entrepreneurship program (I-Trep) is a new NIH-supported education program based in Vermont. Continuing with our mission to provide training and education in biomedical entrepreneurship, the I-Trep program is offering paid specialized internships for 2019-2020. The internships aim to provide career development for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students from any Vermont-based academic institution and foster business-research collaborations within Vermont.
Eligible hosts include any bioscience-based business or other businesses such as law offices or consultant firms that support the bioscience community. Terms of the internship are meant to be flexible to accommodate the desired career skill development or business-research partnership goals. The intern will be paid through the I-Trep grant and internships will be a maximum of 12 weeks in duration. Host organizations may submit nominations for candidates who they have already identified or contact the program to see if there are any candidates that fit the host organization’s needs.
If your organization would like to participate, please contact Tina Thornton (tina.thornton@uvm.edu), coordinator for the I-Trep program, for more information.
