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R.I. Hospital awarded $10.8M from NIH
(Updated, 1:30 p.m.) Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $10.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health for research into joint health. more
Treading water on R.I. wind farms
Deepwater Wind LLC has signed a new lease agreement with the Quonset Development Corporation for a turbine-manufacturing facility and office space in the Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown. The move positions the company to develop a proposed 150-turbine wind farm off the Rhode Island coast, but only after a much-smaller demonstration project the company hopes can be built in the next two years. more
URI scientists contribute to book on salt marsh restoration
University of Rhode Island scientists were contributing authors and editors of a new book on the restoration of salt marshes, which includes case studies based on URI research, the school announced Wednesday. more
| 1/2/13
UMass chemistry department lands $339K NSF funding
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s department of chemistry and biochemistry received a $339,000 award from the National Science Foundation, the school announced Thursday. more
| 1/3/13
SBANE calls for 2013 innovation awards nominations
The Smaller Business Association of New England is calling for nominations for the 2013 New England Innovation Awards. more
| 1/4/13
Starkweather & Shepley ‘gets it right’ in Best’s Review magazine
Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. has been recognized as one of the “10 Agencies That Get It Right” by insurance industry publication Best’s Review magazine. more
| 1/3/13
Slater invests $250K in Care Thread
The Slater Technology Fund has committed to $250,000 in funding to a $750,000 seed round for Care Thread, a provider of secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for the medical industry, Slater announced Tuesday. more
| 1/8/13
Biomedical Structures announces facility expansion, new VP
Biomedical Structures LLC, a developer of biomedical textiles for medical devices, has expanded its medical textile development and manufacturing facilities and appointed a new vice president of research and development, the company announced Tuesday. more
| 1/8/13
Program helps boost computer sketch recognition
Brown University assistant professor James Hays knew computers have a good eye for art, especially detecting texture and shading in life-like representations of real-world images. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 2/4/13

Report: Providence metro ranks 43rd in U.S. for patent innovation
The average number of patents issued yearly in the Providence metropolitan area is 535, earning the metro area the No. 43 spot on the Brookings Institute’s report analyzing patenting and innovation trends in the nation’s 358 largest metropolitan areas. more
| 2/8/13
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