Tag: licensing
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Pfizer and UCSF Sign R&D Collaboration, More Planned
Pfizer Inc., the New York, N.Y. pharmaceutical manufacturer, said today it will establish a network of partnerships with academic medical centers to access the talents of university researchers. Called the Global Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, the University of California, San Francisco is the first university in Pfizer’s network. Pfizer plans to establish a presence at…
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Baking Soda Improves Oil Output from Algae
Sodium bicarbonate, the familiar baking soda found in households worldwide, can increase the production of oil precursors from algae, according to researchers at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman. However, for baking soda to work with algae, it must be added a precisely the right time, and pinning down that time was a big part…
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Agricultural Gene Technology Licensed to Dow Chemical
The John Innes Centre (JIC), a plant biology research institute in Norwich, U.K., announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company, for technology that enhances the root systems of plants. The technology was developed at JIC by Dr. Liam Dolan and his colleagues. JIC says the team cloned…
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Start Up Licenses Nuclear Imaging Drug Compounds
Clarity Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, a new company in Australia, has licensed technology developed by the University of Melbourne and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The technology involves compounds developed by scientists from ANSTO and the University of Melbourne for use in positron emission tomography. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a test that…
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Oxford University Spins Off Tidal Turbine Company
A new enterprise, Kepler Energy Limited, has been formed in the U.K. to develop a tidal turbine, a result of research in Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science. Professors Guy Houlsby, Martin Oldfield, and Malcolm McCulloch developed the turbine (pictured right), which they say has the potential to harness tidal energy more efficiently and cheaply…
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Virginia Tech Licenses DNA Delivery Platform
Techulon Inc., a life sciences company in Blacksburg, Virginia, has signed an agreement with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. to license and market a new, traceable DNA delivery platform created to deliver genetic medicine to cells while carrying a tracker beacon so scientists can follow its progress. Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties is the university’s technology…
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Simple, Inexpensive Sensor Detects Shoe Bomb Chemical
University of Illinois chemists in Champaign, Illinois have developed a simple sensor to detect an explosive used in shoe bombs, with the potential to be built into inexpensive devices for luggage and passenger screening at airports and elsewhere. Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a high-powered explosive that in recent years has been used in bombing attempts.…
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Grant Funds Commercializing Alternative Cultured Pearls
Florida Atlantic University’s Oceanographic Institute in Harbor Branch, Florida received a grant from the State of Florida to commercialize a process the institute developed for creating pearls. The process provides an alternative seeding method to grow or culture pearls in the queen conch, a threatened species found in Florida. Researchers at the institute discovered the…
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Sanofi-aventis, Harvard to Collaborate on Biomedical Research
Sanofi-aventis, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts said today they established a collaboration to conduct basic and applied research in human health and promote scientific exchange between their organizations. The collaboration will focus on translational biomedical research in therapies for conditions such as cancer, diabetes and inflammation. Under…
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Ozone Technology to be Tested in Soil Cleanup Demo
Civil and environmental engineering professor Andy Hong at University of Utah in Salt Lake City has partnered with Chinese environmental cleanup company Honde LLC to use Hong’s method of heightened ozonation treatment (HOT) to clean metals and other contaminants from polluted soil along the shores of Lake Taihu near Wuxi, China. Hong’s HOT technology infuses…