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Recent Tech Transfer Deals, October 2012

 
• By Deanna Kamienski, Beth Allan, Andrea Mancini, Amanda Micklus, Maureen Riordan, and Theresa Surprenant

START-UP’s monthly update on technology transfer deals—licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions—in in vitro diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and research/analytical equipment & supplies.

Arch Biopartners gets option to University of Alberta's IBS diagnostic technology

Public Canadian biotech Arch Biopartners Inc. received a one-year option to acquire intellectual property relating to an irritable bowel...

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