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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 69 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, 2019 C O M P I L E D B Y H E I D E M A R T I N C O M P I L E D B Y H E I D E M A R T I N 1 Columns may not add up to 100% due to rounding. N O T E S : NIH awarded 172 grants in Maine totaling $111,954,379 in 2019. In 2019, Colby College received 1 grant totaling $1 for travel expenses to the biennial International Conference on Infant Studies: 2016–2020. The college was granted $7,500 for this purpose 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 @ Puritan Medical Supplies in Guilford doubled production of medical swabs used in COVID-19 tests in 2020. Production went from 10 million swabs a day to 20 million, with plans to reach 40 million. 200 200 IDEAS FOR MAINE'S BICENTENNIAL Maine Seacoast Mission was started in Bar Harbor in 1905 to provide medical and dental care, spiritual support, education and crisis services to island communities. To get to the islands, a ship named Sunbeam was commissioned in 1912. Maine's National Institutes of Health grant recipients Ranked by total funding, 2019 Grantee Total funding/ Total awards Percent of Maine funding/ 1 Percent of Maine awards 1 Largest project amount/ Largest project title 1 Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor $79,348,473 112 70.9% 65.1% $6,758,815 Systems genetic analysis of cognitive resilience using multi- parent crosses 2 MaineHealth Portland $13,985,224 21 12.5% 12.2% $3,978,692 Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research (NNE- CTR) Network 3 Mount Desert Island Biological Lab Bar Harbor $7,988,887 10 7.1% 5.8% $4,143,153 Comparative functional genomics Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) 4 University of New England Biddeford $3,908,065 7 3.5% 4.1% $2,142,323 Interdisciplinary center of excellence for the study of pain and sensory function 5 University of Maine Orono $3,102,277 9 2.8% 5.2% $435,438 Characterization of viral receptors and signaling networks in JC polyomavirus infection 6 National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education South Portland $1,910,930 4 1.7% 2.3% $1,151,075 National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE)'s community college consortium for health and safety training program 7 Activas Diagnostics LLC Orono $551,596 2 0.5% 1.2% $500,000 Home-based sleep technology for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease monitoring 8 Bowdoin College Brunswick $406,989 1 0.4% 0.6% $406,989 Know your neighbors: investigating the inuence of gene co- localization on transcriptional dynamics 9 Bates College Lewiston $233,739 1 0.2% 0.6% $233,739 Using uorescence nanoscopy to study RNA localization in Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme Disease 10 ContinueYou LLC dba RAE Health New Castle $224,991 1 0.2% 0.6% $224,991 RAE (Realize, Analyze, Engage) - a digital biomarker based detection and intervention system for stress and craving during recovery from substance abuse disorders 11 Idexx Laboratories Inc. Westbrook $130,146 1 0.1% 0.6% $130,146 Pathology monitoring services 12 FHC Inc. Bowdoin $99,439 1 0.1% 0.6% $99,439 Optimizing direct delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics 13 Husson University Bangor $63,622 1 0.1% 0.6% $63,622 Cell-homing exosomes as a drug delivery carrier to overcome multiple drug resistance 1 Columns may not add up to 100% due to rounding. NOTES: NIH awarded 172 grants in Maine totaling $111,954,379 in 2019. In 2019, Colby College received 1 grant totaling $1 for travel expenses to the biennial International Conference on Infant Studies: 2016-2020. The college was granted $7,500 for this purpose in 2018. This list was compiled by Heide Martin and published in the July 27, 2020 issue of Mainebiz. S O U R C E : National Institutes of Health