SEARCH ENGINES AND OTHER DATABASES FOR RESEARCHERS AND INVESTORS

BioScience publications and news
Grant, patent and investing information
Biotech organizations and investment groups

 

Bioscience publications and news:

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

EMBL-EBI
Publications database sponsored by the European Bioinformatics Institute.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Lexis-Nexis Universe
A guided news search for medical, legal and other topic areas.

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Grant, patent and investing information:

CRISP
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.

Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields

Grants.Gov
Grants.gov is your source to find and apply for Federal government grants. There are over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community. Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants.

The National Venture Capital Association
This link takes you to a listing of venture capital firms and other organizations that comprise the membership of the National Venture Capital Association, including links to various investor sites.

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.

SBIR Gateway
The SBIR / STTR National Gateway provides news, information and other resources to help you locate SBIR opportunities from the federal agencies, state governments, and academia. The site includes links to all of the agencies offering SBIR funding.

U.S. Patent Office Patent Search

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Biotech organizations and investment groups:

BIO
BIO is the world's largest trade association for the biotechnology industry and has a wide range of education, advocacy, networking and other services for life sciences organizations.

PhRMA
PhRMA is a major trade association for the pharmaceutical industry and offers several publications on trends in innovation, research, and other issues facing the pharmaceutical industry.

Regional biotech organizations:

Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association
BioOhio
Colorado Bioscience Association
Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization
Indiana Health Industry Forum
Iowa Biotechnology Association
LifeScience Alley
MichBio
Missouri Biotechnology Association

Regional biotech investment groups:

Avolte Venture Partners Midwest, LP
Badger Alumni Capital Network
Baird Venture Partners
The Collaborative, Minnesotta
DaneVest Capital
Golden Angels Network
Illinois Venture Capital Association
Kegonsa Partners
Marshfield Investment Partners
Mason Wells
Michigan Venture Capital Association
Minnesota Venture Capital Association
New Capital Fund
North Star Economics
Phenomenelle Angels Fund
Rosetta Partners
Silicon Pastures
Space Center Ventures, Inc
Tactic II Ventures
Venture Club of Indiana
Venture Investors
Wisconsin Invesment Partners