Tag: licensing
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Personalized Drug Delivery System Demonstrated
Biomedical engineers developed and demonstrated in lab animals a closed-loop system that monitors and controls delivery of drugs to meet an individual’s personalized needs.
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Univ. Spin-Off Creating Baby Brain Development Food
A start-up enterprise spun-off from the Duke-NUS medical school in Singapore is licensing research for a new food product for mothers to help a baby’s cognitive development.
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$2 Billion Biotech Licensing Deal Cancelled
A licensing deal with a potential value of more than $2 billion between two biotechnology companies for a new breast cancer drug was cancelled on Friday.
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Gene Therapy Start-Up Raises $41M in Early Funds
A 1 year-old enterprise developing gene therapies to treat rare inherited metabolic disorders is raising €37.5 million ($US 40.8 million) in its first venture funding round.
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Shire Licensing Dry Eye Disease Treatment in $535M Deal
An experimental drug for treating dry eye disease, a common disorder affecting older individuals, is being licensed by international pharmaceutical company Shire plc.
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NIH Funds Drug-Resistant Malaria Therapy Trial
An agency of National Institutes of Health is funding a clinical trial of a new malaria drug engineered to overcome resistance developed to earlier treatments.
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Start-Up Licensing Flexible Genome-Editing Technology
A start-up biotechnology company is licensing techniques from two universities that make genome editing more flexible and better control gene expression.
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NIH Funds Seen Boosting Industry Patents
An analysis of grants issued by National Institutes of Health shows a large percentage of those grants, directly or indirectly, result in patented technologies in industry.
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Univ. of California to Gain European Crispr-Cas9 Patent
A patent dispute among top research universities took another turn, as the European Patent Office announced its intention to grant a patent to University of California for its genome editing techniques.
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Univ. Spin-Off Developing Non-Toxic Bedbug Killer
Research from a lab at Pennsylvania State University led to a technology for controlling bedbug infestations with natural enemies that are harmless to humans.