The collaborators in both clinical trials include Dr. George Peoples, director of the Cancer Vaccine DevelopmentLaboratory and Deputy Director of the U.S. Military Cancer Institute, and Dr. Constantine Ioannides, former Professor of Immunology at the M.
Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
The expressed goal of IBM's Home Page Reader is "to minimize the information gap between the sighted and the blind, " according to Chicko Asakwa, a blind researcher at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory who played a pivotal role in the development of the product.
To expand ongoing work, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Petrobras is taking steps to sign with Brazil a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) on next generation biofuels.