Tech Transfer Roundup: Arrakis Gets Penn IP Toward Small Molecule RNA Therapies

Canaan Partners-backed biotech will investigate the therapeutic potential of three-way junctions in folded RNA. UC Berkeley and Duke sign separate license agreements related to CRISPR gene-editing technology.

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Below is Scrip’s monthly roundup, including information from Strategic Transactions, of recent technology transfer agreements between companies and academic or other research institutions.

Arrakis Therapeutics Inc. obtained an exclusive license to University of Pennsylvania research that could advance the biotech's efforts...

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