Tech Transfer Roundup: Mustang, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Collaborate In Pediatric Glioblastoma

Partnership will test Mustang’s MB-101 with a second-generation oncolytic HSV-1 virus for potential in treating brain cancer. Canadian biotech launched by CCAB to fight the same cancer.

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

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