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IGERT Leads to Success in SBIR Funding

Projects:
Entrepreneurship at the Interface of Polymer Science and...
Institution:
University of Southern Mississippi
Primary Strategic Goal:
Discovery: Foster research that will advance the frontiers of knowledge, emphasizing areas of greatest opportunity and potential benefit and establishing the Nation as a global leader in fundamental transformational science and engineering.
Secondary Strategic Goal:
Learning: Build the Nation's research capability through critical investments in advanced instrumentation, facilities, cyber infrastructure, and experimental tools.

Achievement/Results

Cadre 1 students, Lisa Kemp and Nick Hammond, leveraged their research findings to form Ablitech, Inc. and obtained phase I SBIR funding for their company.

Address Goals

Their new scientific concepts in coronary stents has improved the nations position in medical device technologies.

Posted:
February 16, 2009