Breonics, Inc.,  a biomedical research firm that joined our supporting member the Harriman Business Center Incubator as a new tenant in January, was awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Breonics is developing technology designed to maintain a human organ in a metabolically active state outside the body, and believes the technology holds the potential to more than double the number of cadaveric kidneys available for transplant each year.

This is the second major NIH award received by Breonics in the past year. The new award came from the BRDG-SPAN RC3 Pilot Program funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the federal economic-stimulus act. The company's previous award came from the National Institute for Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a technology to protect kidney grafts from rejection.

For more information, please see the news release issued by Empire State Development Corporation (also attached as a pdf), which is the state's economic development agency and the corporate parent of the Harriman Research and Technology Development Corporation. HRTDC is redeveloping the state office complex at the Harriman Campus, as part of a program to position the Capital Region as a technology leader. Building 7A of the Harriman Campus is in use partly as the Harriman Business Center Incubator.

nfrastructure, an IT services company that works with public agencies and private companies to improve the efficiency (energy and otherwise) of their computer operations, will relocate 25 employees from its R&D, workforce education and other technology operations to 6,600 square feet in 107 Hermes Road at our supporting member the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)®. For more information, see the NYSERDA news release. 

The Building Performance Institute (BPI), a national standards and credentialing organization for residential energy efficiency, has doubled the amount of space it rents at our supporting member NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology and Energy Park (STEP)®.

A tenant since 2003, BPI will now occupy 6,360 square feet and employ 22. For details please see NYSERDA's attached press release or coverage at the Times Union's The Buzz business blog. NYSERDA STEP has also released the June edition of its Next STEP newsletter, also attached below. 

With the opening of new data center by tw telecom, which uses a cooling system based on natural air flow for high energy efficiency, NYSERDA and elected officials from the Capital Region joined in a public ceremony celebrating the 11 clean-energy-related tenants now in place at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park®, a supporting member of our association. Please see the NYSERDA news release for a complete list.

TEC-SMART, a $13.5 million training facility operated by Hudson Valley Community College, has ceremonially opened at our supporting member NYSERDA Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)®. The facility includes more than a dozen classrooms and laboratories that will be used to train workers in the installation and maintenance of solar, geothermal and wind energy systems. TEC-SMART also serves the training needs of the Global Foundries semiconductor fab being built just across the way. For more information please see the HVCC news release and coverage (including video) in The Saratogian. 

Our member Linc, The Lighting Cultivator™, is seeking a director of business development. Please see the attached job description. Linc is a not-for-profit corporation that acts as a virtual incubator for commercialization of new lighting products and services, assisting lighting and lighting-related companies to grow and create jobs in New York State. It collaborates with RPI's Lighting Research Center and NYSERDA.

An array of LED lights will be used to determine the precise spectral bands that are optimal for indoor growing of plants, under joint testing program brokered by our member Linc, the Lighting Cultivator among Ithaca-based Aero Farm Systems LLC, Cornell University's Department of Horticulture, and the Lighting Research Center at RPI. For a full account, see Aero Farm's news release. 

The sixth clean-energy business incubator to be established statewide by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will be a partnership of the Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center at UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and our member the Hudson Valley Center for Innovation. Please see the official NYSERDA news release attached below and coverage in the Business Review. A full list of the clean-energy business incubators appears on our site here: http://bianys.com/clean_energy_incubators.