NC Biotechnology Center awards $3.5M in grants, loans
Life science start-up companies, event sponsors, researchers and educators received $3.58 million in loans and grants from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center during the final quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. The awards, in 14 programs, went to successful applicants across the state to support life science entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and education. In total, NCBiotech provided 151 awards during fiscal 2013, worth more than $10.7 million. That compared to 127 awards the previous year, valued at just over $8.6 million. NCBiotech has been awarding this type of funding since it was established in 1984. Such awards...
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