Click chemistry is a versatile reaction used to join two molecules together rapidly and with high yield. Those molecules might be proteins, peptides, DNA, oligonucleotides, small compounds such as drugs, or labeling tools such as biotin and fluorescent dyes. With so many potential applications, click chemistry is a handy tool for many different researchers, ranging
Hilary Koprowski, MD Many advances in the fields of virology and immunology came during the 30-plus year period when Hilary Koprowski, MD was the Wistar Institute’s director and then in the years following when he was a Professor Laureate and on the Board of Trustees. During this illustrious scientific career, Dr. Koprowski published more than
We recently surveyed the 128 technology commercialization offices currently partnering with us to get their feedback on the Kerafast program. The survey asked about their experiences working with Kerafast and provided an opportunity to weigh in on new reagents, marketing campaigns and suggestions for building the community. We look forward to using the results to
An increasing number of universities are now operating business incubators, programs which help nurture and grow early-stage companies affiliated with the institution. According to the International Business Innovation Association, there are now more than 1,250 business incubators in the United States and more than 7,000 worldwide. As of 2012, about one-third of the U.S. incubators
By Felipe Sarmiento, Ph.D., Business Innovation Director of Swissaustral USA Swissaustral is a worldwide specialist in extreme biotechnology, developing innovative solutions for non-standard technological challenges in life sciences and industry. Our company exploits the potential of extremophiles, or microorganisms that thrive under extreme conditions, and their unexplored metabolic pathways as a unique and diverse natural
Researchers from many leading institutions have joined the Kerafast community, making their reagents easily accessible to the global scientific community. We recently surveyed nearly 200 of these providing investigators to get their feedback on the Kerafast program. The survey asked about their experiences working with us and provided an opportunity to weigh in on new
Kerafast team member Carlos Guerra recently moved from Boston to sunny San Diego, California. We were sad to say goodbye, but are very excited to welcome William Vezinaw as our new Customer Support & Logistics Manager. William comes to Kerafast from the University of Rochester, where he received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences-molecular genetics
Kerafast Partners with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – Enables Sharing of NCI Research Materials through Kerafast platform Partnership seeks to advance scientific discovery by offering important bioreagents Boston, Mass; Aug 19, 2015. Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform to facilitate accessibility to unique bioresearch materials from academic and government laboratories across the globe,
Rutgers University researchers are sharing many unique reagents through Kerafast, including cyclic diguanosine monophosphate, exocyst complex antibodies and a CD44CR1-GFP reporter plasmid. Scientists across the globe have used these materials to accelerate their research—and the Rutgers Office of Research Commercialization has played a key role in making that possible. Rutgers licensing manager Dr. Shan Wan
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes the commercialization of University of Tennessee (UT) intellectual property. As one of the foundation’s licensing associates, Dr. Patrick Reynolds manages the commercialization of various life science technologies, medical devices and software. Dr. Reynolds has played a key role in adding novel reagents to
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