Word: monsanto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such fears helped to lead Harvard to refuse shares in a bioengineering corporation founded by Mark S Ptashne a Harvard professor of Biochemistry Nevertheless Harvard has a $2.3 million contract for joint research with Monsanto Corporation and President Bok will attend a conference in March to consider guidelines for such research...
Commercial labs, more than 50 so far, have sprung up across the country, creating a demand that allows top-flight researchers and agricultural scientists "to write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...
Throdal says Monsanto originally proposed the linkage with Harvard because it provided "the quickest way to get new services from the researchers to the general public." But getting new service for the general public, while beneficial for patients, also means potentially hefty profits for Monsanto, and some scientists remain skeptical of the separation between the University and its corporate friends. Krimsky, while not familiar with the specifics of the Harvard-Monsanto ties, criticizes the University for not making public the details of its contracts with the company. Harvard has not made public the contract with Monsanto or the recently announced...
Throdal says it is still too early to tell what products or services, to which the company holds exclusive rights, if any, may result from the Harvard research, but Science magazine reported last May that the Collagen company, of which Monsanto owns 30 per cent, will manufacture bone powder to be used in a study by Julianne Glowacki, associate in surgery at the Medical School and a researcher in Folkman's lab, to study techniques in developing artificial bones...
...Monsanto deal, Briaton says, is a good indication that links between universities and corporations can work successfully, and while she says that "no two individual grants are alike," the Monsanto grant may provide a model for successful links in the future...