University of North Carolina signs technology transfer agreement with aaiPharma.(Brief Article)

BIOTECH Patent News, September, 2002

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Wilmington, NC) announced that it has signed its first-ever technology-transfer licensing agreement with aaiPharma, Inc. The agreement is expected to facilitate the transfer of scientific discoveries by university researchers into future useful medicines.

Although actual products resulting from this collaboration are not expected to hit the market in the near term, research at the University on new bio-chemical entities is well underway. UNCW's Center for Marine Science and the Departments of Biology and Chemistry are currently conducting research dealing with the identification of molecules that may be used to develop potentially life saving medicines from pharmaceutically active entities found in our coastal...

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