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QB3 announces new industry partnerships at UCSF inaugural event
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Technology industry leaders on Monday announced several major new research alliances with QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research. The announcements coincided with an inaugural event celebrating the opening of the institute’s headquarters at UCSF Mission Bay. Focusing on the theme "Nurturing Biomedical Innovation," the program featured the announcement of several major industry-academic collaborations between QB3 and General Electric, Genentech, and Nikon.
The Genentech agreement simplifies and speeds collaborations between the company and all scientists at UCSC, UCB, and UCSF. The agreement clarifies at the outset the types of issues that tend to slow and sometimes block productive collaborations of this type. Other collaborations celebrated at the event included the first offering of incubator research space at QB3 to start-up companies, a new QB3-led research effort in synthetic biology and nanomedicine that is funded by National Institutes of Health, and a new research agreement forged by QB3 and Peking University leaders to ensure increased collaborations between the two institutions.  MORE... full story
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