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Lab Announces Selection of Partner for Venture Acceleration Initiative
September 2 — The Laboratory and its operating contractor, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, plan to partner with ARCH Venture Partners and Verge Fund for the Los Alamos Venture Acceleration (LAVA) Initiative.
Lab Seeks Ideas for Venture Acceleration Fund
July 10 — The Laboratory is soliciting ideas for projects that facilitate the creation and growth of regional businesses based on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology or expertise.
Lab Seeks Venture Acceleration Initiative Partners
June 9 — The Laboratory is soliciting proposals to facilitate the identification, creation, and growth of spinoff companies based on Laboratory technology or know-how and is prepared to provide up to $1 million over three years to support the effort.
Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
February 12 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.
Cancer Treatment Gets Software Boost
October 16 — Nearly a million cancer patients will undergo radiation therapy this year in the United States, and now a new software application, Acuros®, based on the Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed Attila® radiation-modeling software, will enable physicians to focus their beams more precisely on specific tumor sites.
Los Alamos Wins Two Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards
September 24 — Two technologies developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the areas of energy and semiconductor research are among the winners of the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.
Laboratory technologies capture R&D 100 awards
July 9 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory won two of R&D Magazine's prestigious 2007 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 105 awards received since the Laboratory began entering innovations in the competition in 1978.
Los Alamos licenses avian flu modeling and simulation software
October 12 — Santa Fe-based CIVA (The Company for Information Visualization and Analysis) signed an agreement to license Los Alamos National Laboratory's epidemiological modeling and simulation system, called EpiCast.
Plasma assisted engines fuel efficient, cleaner
August 29 — Gasoline, diesel, and turbine engines could soon burn cleaner or be more fuel efficient through the application of Plasma Assisted Combustion, a technology originated and developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and now poised to enter the marketplace.
Los Alamos partners with CNT Technologies to commercialize SuperThread(tm) carbon-nanotube fiber
August 21 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed its carbon nanotube technology to a new commercial partner, Seattle-based CNT Technologies Inc. (CNT Tech).
Through-the-earth communication licensed by Los Alamos National Laboratory
August 1 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced that Vital Alert Technologies Inc. signed two exclusive license agreements with the Laboratory for Underground RadioTM.
Los Alamos to share computer simulation software development environment with private sector
November 16 — Los Alamos National Laboratory is offering industry and academia a "blank check" that will make modeling and visualizing complex physics, materials science and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) equations and experiments a much simpler task.
Los Alamos National Laboratory to license its worm intrusion response and quarantine software to aid industry
November 14 — Los Alamos National Laboratory had the first public and commercial demonstration of its NARQ software to deal with the ever-growing threat posed by malicious compute network WORMs at the Supercomputing 2005 conference in Seattle, Wash.
Two Laboratory technologies receive nanoscience awards
July 21 — Two technologies developed by University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named winners in the 2005 Nano 50(tm) Award competition by Nanotech Briefs, a digital publication from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs.
Laboratory captures four R&D 100 Awards
July 1 — Scientists at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory have captured four of R&D Magazine's 2005 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 87 awards over the past 18 years.
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico collaborate on tech-transfer education
January 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico have created a program in UNM's Center on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) that will give graduate students the opportunity to assist in the transfer of technologies from the Laboratory to the private sector.
ChevronTexaco and Los Alamos National Laboratory to establish an alliance for advanced energy solutions
November 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory, operated by the University of California, and ChevronTexaco Corporation today announced plans to establish an alliance to develop a range of mutually beneficial technologies. This alliance will assist Los Alamos in its Department of Energy mission to advance the national, economic and energy security of the United States and to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission.
Laboratory Captures Five R&D 100 Awards
July 6 — Scientists at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory have captured five of R&D Magazine's 2004 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 83 awards over the past 17 years. The projects recognized this year span a diverse range of scientific and technical areas - from innovative imaging techniques and advances in computing to revolutionary new materials. This year, Los Alamos was tied with its sister laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for the largest number of awards received by a Department of Energy laboratory.
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