Deshpande Center distributes $1 million

The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today it is awarding just over $1 million to 10 MIT research teams.

The teams are working on projects that have the potential to "revolutionize disease therapies, nano-scale imaging, renewable energy from biomass, energy storage, HIV care in the developing world, wound healing, medication delivery, and explosives detection," the center said.

Since 2002, the center said it has funded 68 MIT research projects with about $8 million in grants.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)