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  • CIT invests in Parabon NanoLabs for drug design platform
    TechJournal South

    The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology says its CIT GAP BioLife Fund closed on an investment in an undisclosed amount in Parabon NanoLabs Inc.

    The Reston-based nano-pharmaceutical company uses a proprietary combination of innovative software and nanoscale fabrication technologies that speeds up and lowers the cost of drug discovery, especially for treatments for cancerous brain tumors like malignant glioma that took the life of late-Senator Edward Kennedy.

  • Virginia’s Parabon NanoLabs successfully targets brain tumor cells
     by Allan Maurer, TechJournal South

    Parabon NanoLabs has successfully targeted deadly brain cancer tumor cells in mice using its designer molecules, which it can build atom by atom. Eventually, the technology could lead to more effective treatments that may do away with side effects for the type of brain cancer that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy, as well as other types of tumors.

  • Parabon NanoLabs Selected as Presenting Company for 2010 Southeast Venture Conference

    The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) today announced the second round of companies selected to present at the upcoming conference scheduled for February 24-25th at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. A total of 60 showcase companies from the southeast and mid-atlantic regions will be presenting to a national venture capital audience representing billions in private equity capital.

  • DHS Awards Parabon NanoLabs SBIR Grant to Develop Portable DNA Biometric Device
    Goal to Verify Identity and Kinship Rapidly and Inexpensively

    Parabon NanoLabs announced today its award of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The funds will be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the company's new single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) "SNP chip" (pronounced "snip chip") to rapidly verify identity and kinship using DNA. The goal is to design a briefcase-size biometrics device that will process a DNA sample and determine identity or kinship with an accuracy of 99.99%, in under 45 minutes, at a cost of less than $50.

  • Parabon NanoLabs Founding Scientist Awarded White House Honor
    Dr. Christopher Dwyer Receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

    Parabon® NanoLabs announced today announced today that Dr. Christopher Dwyer, its Co-Founder and Senior Research Scientist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Announced by the White House, PECASE is the highest honor given to scientists beginning their careers by the Federal Government. Dwyer received a five-year research grant to further his studies to aid critical government projects.

  • NSF Awards Parabon NanoLabs Research Grant to Develop Novel Cancer Therapeutics "by Design" versus "by Discovery"
    New Anticancer Molecules Engineered to Self-Assemble Using Synthetic DNA

    Parabon® NanoLabs, a subsidiary of Parabon Computation, announced today its award of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. The grant will be used to demonstrate the viability of a new class of anticancer molecules that are engineered to automatically self-assemble from interlocking strands of synthetic DNA. It was a combination of innovations — DNA nanotechnology fabrication and grid computing sequence optimization — that led to Parabon NanoLabs' award.

  • Virginia Grubstake Breakfast features Parabon NanoLabs
    TechJournal South
    Parabon NanoLabs is one of four young technology companies seeking $250,000 to $2 million in financing have been been selected to present their business plans at the June 12 Business Alliance of George Mason University Grubstake Breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
  • An Electronic CEO Fireside Chat with Dr. Steven Armentrout, Parabon NanoLabs
    By David Mantey, Editor, Product Design & Development
    Armentrout discusses the Nanotechnology Revolution and how the market for nanotechnology products and services will reach $1 trillion by 2015. Oh, and he's pretty pumped about the potential to benefit mankind too.
  • Venture Profile: Parabon NanoLabs
    Developed over the past four years, Parabon's inSequio Sequence Design Studio is a one-of-a-kind computer-aided design (CAD) application that optimizes DNA sequences for nano-engineering using grid-scale supercomputing capacity.
  • ParabonNanoLabs Established to Revolutionize Nanotechnology Field With "Designer Macromolecules" Built from Grid-Optimized Sequences of DNA
    Frontier Grid Platform Powers inSēquio Sequence Design Studio to Provide Breakthrough CAD Capabilities for Nano-engineered Products

    Parabon announced today the spin-off of Parabon NanoLabs, a subsidiary dedicated to designing and producing breakthrough products at the nano-scale. 

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