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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 73 Fact Book / Doing Business in Maine I N N OVAT I O N / R & D Maine's National Institutes of Health grant recipients Ranked by total funding, 2018 C O M P I L E D B Y S T E P H A N I E R . M E A G H E R 1 Columns may not add up to 100% due to rounding. 2 In collaboration with the University of Vermont N O T E S : NIH awarded 160 grants in Maine totaling $99,648,104 in 2018. S O U R C E : National Institutes of Health Purchase this list and more as an Excel document at mainebiz.biz/DataCenter @ Grantee Total funding Total awards Percent of Maine funding 1 Percent of Maine awards 1 Largest project amount Project description 1 Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor $70,678,542 110 71% 69% $5,861,047 Mouse genome database 2 Maine Medical Center 2 Portland $12,771,786 19 13% 12% $3,986,653 Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research (NNE-CTR) Network is to develop and sustain a clinical and translational research infrastructure that supports improvement in rural and community health 3 Mount Desert Island Biological Lab Bar Harbor $6,414,370 10 6% 6% $3,609,725 Renewal of Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) 4 University of New England Biddeford $2,819,115 3 3% 2% $2,131,283 Interdisciplinary center of excellence for the study of pain and sensory function 5 University of Maine Orono $2,082,900 6 2% 4% $435,166 Study of hyperinflammation as part of Influenza A infection to produce therapeutic measures that preserve the antiviral response, yet contain the associated inflammation 6 National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education South Portland $1,791,526 3 2% 2% $1,151,075 Training for waste workers and hazardous materials 7 Bowdoin College Brunswick $1,224,681 3 1% 2% $419,261 Role of genome plasticity in Candida albicans host-pathogen interactions 8 Novo Biosciences Inc. Bar Harbor $729,622 1 1% 1% $729,622 Development of the PTP1B inhibitor MSI-1436 for therapeutic stimulation of heart regeneration following acute myocardial infarction 9 Activas Diagnostics LLC Bangor $500,000 1 1% 1% $500,000 Home-based sleep technology for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease monitoring 10 FHC Inc. Bowdoin $303,381 1 0% 1% $303,381 Optimizing direct delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics 11 Alba-Technic LLC Winthrop $224,682 1 0% 1% $224,682 Development of non-stigmatizing hip protection for prevention of fall-related injuries 12 RockStep Solutions Inc. Portland $99,999 1 0% 1% $99,999 Novel use of emergent technologies to improve efficiency of animal model research 13 Colby College Waterville $7,500 1 0% 1% $7,500 International Conference on Infant Studies