Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

November 2009 Issue

• Funding for AMIC cancer research
  Senator Patty Murray included $1.25 million for cancer research at Kennewick, Wash.-based Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation in the fiscal year 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill. more...
• IsoRay cancer treatment technology used in lung implants
  For the first time, Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds developed by IsoRay, Inc., based in Richland, Wash., have been used in lung implants for treatment of lung cancer. more...
• Infinia to develop power generator for military
  Kennewick, WA-based Infinia Corporation will receive funding under the Defense Appropriations bill to develop a power generator for the Army. more...
• KGH and AIT partner on medical technology
  Kennewick General Hospital in Kennewick, Wash., and Richland, Wash.-based Advanced Imaging Technologies have teamed up to provide a cutting-edge, automated ultrasound technology aimed at improving breast cancer detection. more...
• Washington Technology Center receives national award
  The Washington Technology Center was recognized with a 2009 Excellence in Technology-Based Economic Development Award by the State Science and Technology Institute, a national nonprofit association dedicated to improving government-industry programs that encourage economic growth through the application of science and technology. more...
• Vivid Learning Systems wins award
  Pasco, Wash.-based Vivid Learning Systems received a prestigious Learning in Practice award given by Chief Learning Officer magazine. more...
• City of Richland "Green Award' winners
  The City of Richland, Wash. named the Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities as the area's 2009 Green Business of the Year. more...
• NETB wins design award
  NewEdge + The Brewery, which has an office in Richland, Wash., was named a winner in the 2009 Peroni Blue Ribbon Design Awards. more...
• Hydrovolts named finalist in Clean Tech Open
  Seattle, Wash.-based Hydrovolts was named a regional finalist in the inaugural Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open competition and will now go to San Francisco, Calif. more...

• WSU Engineering and Technology Management Seminar
  The Washington State University Tri-Cities branch campus will host an information session on the school's Engineering and Technology Management Program on November 17. more...
• Industry Achievement Awards open for nomination
  The Washington Technology Industry Association is accepting nominations for the 15th Annual Industry Achievement Awards. more...
• Federal funding symposium
  Staff from Senator Patty Murray and Senator Maria Cantwell's offices will provide an introduction to federal grants and the appropriations process at a meeting on November 19. more...
• Resources online
  1) The column "STEM school can nurture different set of skills" was published in the Tri-City Herald on September 27. more...

• Entrepreneur University 2009 - Dig In, Branch Out
  NOVEMBER 5. The Northwest Entrepreneur Network's annual Entrepreneur University event will be held in Bellevue, Wash. more...
• WBBA Annual Membership meeting
  NOVEMBER 6. The Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association will hold its annual meeting in Seattle on November 6 from 7 to 10 am. more...
• Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network meeting
  NOVEMBER 17. The Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network will hold its November seminar "Networks and servers and hackers...oh, my! The risks of using and relying on technology" on November 17 at the Richland Community Center in Richland, Wash. more...
• Global Venture Challenge conference
  MARCH 24-26, 2010. The 4th Annual Global Venture Challenge will be held in March 2010 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. more...
• Harvesting Clean Energy 2010
  FEBRUARY 7-9, 2010. The 10th annual Harvesting Clean Energy Conference will be held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash., in February. more...
• Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference
  MARCH 16-17, 2010. The Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association will hold the first Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference in Seattle in March. more...

• PNNL dedicates new facilities
  The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has opened new facilities that will enable discoveries in biological, computational and subsurface science and developments in bioenergy, carbon sequestration and homeland security. more...
• PNNL researcher wins Homeland Security Award
  Jim Thomas, a chief scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was recognized with the prestigious Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation 2009 Homeland Security Award for his work creating computerized visual analytics technology that can be used to predict and prevent acts of terrorism or other catastrophic events. more...
• Carbon capture shows major potential in China
  Carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies could represent a cost-effective, viable option to help China continue to meet its growing energy demands while also delivering deep and sustained reductions in industrial greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. more...
• DOE funds CO2 project
  A partnership between researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Boise White Paper LLC, and Fluor Corporation to demonstrate geologic carbon dioxide storage in deep flood basalt formations in Washington will receive $500,000 from DOE. more...

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Tri-Cities Tech Business Update is published by the Economic Development Office at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Each month, we send you an e-mail message, giving you the link of news, tips, awards, upcoming events, and other information about local technology-based businesses and organizations that support them. With business and community partners, our goal is to build and diversify the Tri-Cities economy—adding skilled jobs in primary-sector industries that bring in outside dollars. Currently, more than 1,100 tech-related businesses, investors, and economic development stakeholders subscribe to the newsletter, mostly in the Mid-Columbia area and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. This newsletter (RL-P00-009) supports PNSO's vision for the future of the Hanford Site and surrounding area through the creation of research opportunities, new industries, and new business clusters.