Alerion, Vanderbilt receive NIH grant

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Jan 4, 2005

Contrast agent development firm Alerion Biomedical of San Diego, in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) small business technology transfer (STTR) grant for a project involving MRI with protease-sensing contrast agents.

The goals of the STTR project include designing, synthesizing, and testing a new class of biochemically activated MRI contrast agents that detect and monitor disease-associated enzymatic activity in vivo. The project has the potential to improve the noninvasive detection and evaluation of cancer, Alerion said.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
January 5, 2005

Copyright © 2005 AuntMinnie.com

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