High Leverage. Strong Impact. The New Hampshire Innovation Research Center The NHIRC matches businesses in New Hampshire with dollars to support translational research efforts that further growth and development of New Hampshire businesses, increasing job growth, opportunities, and revenues. NHIRC Highlights 1 $505,043 600 jobs created or retained 15:1 total leverage for state funds >$26MM SBIR awards for $39,999 2 NHIRC projects 3 $25MM in additional federal $137,127 funding for NH educational $1,913,145 5 institutions 4 $281,722 Awardees have raised over $1,408,264 $300MM in additional fund- 15 6 $98,191 8 17 $1,440,852 ing creating many marketed 21 products 7 16 20 24 $2,085,517 9 23 10 14 19 11 22 $335,990 $109,469 12 13 18 $1,082,289 $779,660 $507,921 $968,778 $1,539,289 $63,751 $570,949 $656,966 Questions? Contact the 2010 Oversight Committee, whose positions are legislated or appointed by the NH Governor. The NHIRC was legislated in 1991, Title 15 Chapter 187A. NHIRC Oversight Committee Members representing: NH Senate 603-868-2491 Amanda Merrill, Senator NH House of Representatives 603-859-1089 Sam Cataldo, Representative NH Dept. of Economic Development 603-271-2591 Christopher Way, Business Service Manager NH School of Law, UNH 603-228-1541 John Orcutt, Professor of Law Large Businesses 603-778-6117 Robert Gyurik, Pharmaceutical Consultant Large Businesses 603-885-4030 Richard Powers, VP and Deputy General Manager, BAE Systems Small Businesses 603-878-1565 ext. 225 Jenny Houston, VP of Business Development, Warwick Mills Small Businesses 603-838-7015 Wendell Jesseman, President, New England Wire Technologies Senior Vice Provost for Research, UNH 603-862-0520 Jan Nisbet, Senior Vice Provost for Research Technology Transfer, Dartmouth 603-646-3027 Alla Kan, Director, Technology Transfer Office College of Engineering and Physical Science, UNH 603-862-0520 Glenn Shwaery, Interim Rep for Dean Sam Mukasa New Hampshire Innovation Research Center 919-923-5120 Marc Sedam, Executive Director Districts 1, 2, 3, 4 The New Hampshire House of Representatives has formally removed all funding for the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC), the state’s only funding for university-industry collaborations. We need your help as past awardees to restore funding at or above prior levels. Join other New Hampshire Businesses in contacting your senator to support the NHIRC. Here’s what to do: 1. Contact your senator. 2. Tell them why NHIRC is important for New Hampshire. 3. Tell them why NHIRC is important to your company. NHIRC Proposal Dollars Did you know... District 1 Senator John Gallus, 752-1066 $505,043 2008 MBP, Bioenergy, LLC North Conway Presby Environmental 2003 Presby Environmental Inc. Sugar Hill (‘03) is an innovative 1997 Crown Vantage Berlin environmental organiza- 1995 Morrell Corp. Glen tion that engineers new 1995 NE Electric Wire Lisbon technology to change the way the world approaches District 2 Senator Jeanie Forrester, 271-2104 $39,999 wastewater treatment. 1995 L.W. Packard Ashland Today the company is District 3 Senator Jeb Bradley, 387-2365 working at the cutting edge of water pollution District 4 Senator James Forsythe, 271-3096 $137,127 control to help protect and 2003 AavidThermalloy, LLC Laconia preserve our most precious 2001 AFL (Noyes Fiber Systems, Inc.) Belmont natural resources. 1994 Mills Industries Laconia 1993 Allan-Rogers Ltd. Laconia Great Crates Strafford Albany Engineered Composites, Inc., Rochester, NH “The technology developed in this project will allow us to broaden AEC’s markets by 1 expanding the range of components that can be fabricated using 3D weaving and resin transfer molding. While these technologies are relatively new, they are be- ing used in some major programs, such as the CFM LEAP-X engineer program, and the landing gear braces for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. For growing, leading technology companies like AEC, it is crucial to be able to participate in high risk-high impact research through NHIRC. It should also be noted that NHIRC funding is also crucial for UNH in providing its faculty and students the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in collaboration with the industry, thereby providing the next 2 3 generation of engineers and scientists who will continue to grow the economy of our State.” ~ Jon Goering, Divisional Chief Technology Officer, 2010 NHIRC Project 4 District 5 The New Hampshire House of Representatives has formally removed all funding for the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC), the state’s only funding for university-industry collaborations. We need your help as past awardees to restore funding at or above prior levels. Join other New Hampshire Businesses in contacting your senator to support the NHIRC. Here’s what to do: 1. Contact your senator. 2. Tell them why NHIRC is important for New Hampshire. 3. Tell them why NHIRC is important to your company. Did you know... NHIRC Proposal Dollars Celdara (‘05, ‘08) has created a CLIA-certified- District 5 Senator Matthew Houde, 271-2118 $1,913,145 diagnostic/prognostic/ 2012 AxiSol Lebanon predictive test for patients 2012 M2S, Inc. West Lebanon with scleroderma. 2011 Celdara Medical, LLC Lebanon 2010 Hypertherm, Inc. Hanover GlycoFi (‘05) was 2009 ImmuRx Inc. Lebanon founded in 2000 with the 2009 Woomera Therapeutics Lebanon mission of dramatically im- 2009 AAC International Lebanon proving the capacity and cost of producing human 2005 ThermalVision Inc. Hanover therapeutic proteins, while 2005 GlycoFi, Inc. (now Merck) Lebanon simultaneously enhancing 1999 Aurora Optics Lebanon their efficacy and safety as 1998 Audit Security Bags West Lebanon therapeutics. GlycoFi was 1998 Fluent, Inc. Lebanon acquired by Merck in 2006 1997 Materials Innovations Lebanon for $400MM. 1995 Medical Media Systems West Lebanon Celdara Medical, Lebanon, NH “Without our first NHIRC award we may not have been able to raise angel fund- ing in such a difficult economic climate, we would not have a CLIA-certified lab in which to develop and bring to market a diagnostic/prognostic/predictive test for patients with scleroderma. Without it, we may have had to close our doors, or more likely, we may well have opened our doors in VT or MA.” ~ Jake Reder, CEO, 2008 NHIRC Project ImmuRx Inc., Lebanon, NH “An IRC grant catalyzed the start of ImmuRx, Inc., a biotechnology company. It got us started with a grant of $69,000. We have since raised over $5,000,000, hired skilled workers and moved our cancer treatment toward commercializa- 5 tion. We are on target to keep growing.” ~ David Delucia, CEO, 2009 NHIRC Project Districts 6, 17, 23 The New Hampshire House of Representatives has formally removed all funding for the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC), the state’s only funding for university-industry collaborations. We need your help as past awardees to restore funding at or above prior levels. Join other New Hampshire Businesses in contacting your senator to support the NHIRC. Here’s what to do: 1. Contact your senator. 2. Tell them why NHIRC is important for New Hampshire. 3. Tell them why NHIRC is important to your company. NHIRC Proposal Dollars District 6 Senator Fenton Groen, 271-3045 $1,408,264 Did you know... 2011 Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. Rochester 2009 Newport Computer Services Rochester Albany Engineered 2006 Sentry BioScience Inc. Nottingham Composites (‘99, 2004 Turbocam Inc. Barrington ‘02, ‘09, ‘11) recently 1999 Albany Techniweave, Inc. Rochester agreed to move its 1994 Cleary Cleaners Rochester global headquarters to District 17 Senator John Barnes, 895-9352 Rochester, NH. Albany employs 6,200 people District 23 Senator Russell Prescott, 271-3074 $335,990 worldwide. 2005 Regal Sleeving and Tubing, LLC Newmarket 1998 BioTherapeutics, LLC Stratham 1995 K.J. Quinn Seabrook Albany Engineered Composites, Inc., Rochester, NH “The technology developed in this project will allow us to broaden AEC’s markets by expanding the range of components that can be fabricated using 3D weaving and resin transfer mold- ing. While these technologies are relatively new, they are being used in some major programs, such as the CFM LEAP-X engineer program, and the landing gear braces for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. For growing, leading technology companies like AEC, it is crucial to be able to participate in high risk-high impact research through NHIRC. It should also be noted that NHIRC funding is also crucial for UNH in providing its faculty and students the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in collaboration with the industry, thereby providing the next generation of engineers and scientists who will continue to grow the economy of our State.” ~ Jon Goering, Divisional Chief Technology Officer, 2010 NHIRC Project Regal Sleeving (Suflex), Newmarket, NH “The results of our project has increased our production rate up 100% and the number of employees from 36 to 45.” ~ L. Gerard Landry, President, 2005 NHIRC Project Alternative System Concepts, Windham, NH “Twenty one years ago, five UNH graduate students helped develop a suite of design auto- mation software tools that ASC commercialized and established the company as a worldwide 6 17 leader of state of the art EDA tools. I am planning to apply for a NHIRC grant to match the IRS QTDP grant our small business recently received to begin development of a control hub 23 for cancer therapies. This is the first stage in our growth plan aimed at creating 66 highly paid professional jobs and countless manufacturing positions over the next five years.” ~ Jake Karrfalt, CEO, Hopeful Awardee District 7 The New Hampshire House of Representatives has formally removed all funding for the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC), the state’s only funding for university-industry collaborations. We need your help as past awardees to restore funding at or above prior levels.