DETROIT ? Alternative Energy Startup NextCAT has received $250,000 in seed funding from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund. NextCAT is commercializing biodiesel catalyst technology developed at the National Biofuels Energy Lab at Wayne State University that will allow biodiesel producers to use cost-effective raw materials. Founded in 2009, NextCAT is commercializing a class of catalysts
DETROIT - Scientists at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit have received a nearly $3 million, five-year research project grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a potentially ground-breaking immunotherapy treatment for women with one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer ? triple-negative breast cancer. The research is exclusive to
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is hosting the SparkNewBiz Video Pitch Competition as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov. 15-19. Open to all Michigan residents 18 and over, the competition encourages entrepreneurs to take their ideas to the next level with three-minute pitch videos demonstrating the potential of their proposed products. By Nov. 1, entrants
LANSING - Nearly half of the members surveyed in the Business Leaders for Michigan think the state's economic recovery is 18 months away. The group's third quarter survey found uncertainty in the U.S. market's recovery, along with government debt and regulations, and the European market crisis, pushed members to defer their estimations as to when
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said Friday that if he wins the governorship, he will resign the one or two corporate boards on which he now sits and transfer his ownership of his businesses to others. "I've got a new day job then," Snyder said of why he would resign his corporate
LANSING - Republican Rick Snyder has support from more than half of voters in the state, according to a poll released Friday by Foster, McCollum, White and Associates and Baydoun Consulting. The survey showed 53.88 percent of voters at least leaning toward voting for Snyder, while Democrat Virg Bernero had support from only 32.52 percent.
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder, who is the Republican gubernatorial candidate, says he understands entrepreneurs and wants to transform Michigan into a more entrepreneur friendly state. But what specifically does Snyder mean? Snyder said he would eliminate the Michigan Business Tax and replace it with a 6-percent profits tax on companies
WASHINGTON DC ? Future Shock author Alvin Toffler is at it again. He's come out with a new book on the 40th anniversary of his best seller that now forecasts the trends that will change our lives over the next 40 years. Toffler Associates? 40 for the Next 40 describes the forces of change that
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Think of Mr. Potato Head for the iPhone. Well that's what Captain Moustache, a start up developing mobile applications for Apple products, wants you to do with its latest product, Simple Pumpkin Face, out just in time for Halloween. Simple Pumpkin Face offers a myriad of exciting face options, backgrounds and words
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor's role as one of the state's biosciences industry hubs will be highlighted on Oct. 26-27 when MichBio holds its 6th Annual Expo and Conference to the Marriott at Eagle Crest in Ypsilanti. MichBio is the statewide trade association for biosciences, and the Expo is the premier annual gathering of biosciences