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A Few 21st Century Jobs Fund Awardees

Accuri Cytometers

Accuri Cytometers used its 21st Century Jobs Fund to launch their first product, which is an innovative life science research tool.  (00:52)
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Avidimer Therapeutics

Avidimer Therapeutics uses polymer technology to deliver drugs to specific cells. The 21st Century Jobs Fund allowed the company to take their technology to clinical trials on patients.  (00:46)
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Adaptive Materials Inc.

AMI’s award will help accelerate their development of a unique, portable technology that produces electricity from propane and butane.  (02:31)
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Lawrence Technological University

LTU’s development of lighter, stronger materials promises to reduce taxpayer costs for “box beam” bridges.  (02:42)
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Michigan State University

To help keep protect people worldwide from unsafe water supplies, MSU is combining microbiology with micro-fluidics in a “DNA chip” that detects water contamination quickly & inexpensively.  (01:56)
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ProNAi

This Kalamazoo-based company is developing gene-inhibiting cancer treatments scheduled, and using their award to move into clinical trials in 2007.  (02:23)
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