CytRx Licenses RNAi Technology for ALS Research from U Mass Med School

Jun 30, 2003

NEW YORK, June 30 - CytRx today said it has signed an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license agreement with the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) to use UMMS's RNA interference technology in the development of a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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