Article: Changing CytRx Licenses Broad RNAi Technology From U-Mass.

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CytRx Corp. is changing by taking up the torch of RNA interference technology through license agreements with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Although CytRx, of Los Angeles, has experience in gene therapy and gene-based vaccines through its TranzFect technology and in sickle cell disease through Flocor, Steven Kriegsman, CytRx CEO, said his company has "been studying the RNAi area since it started to be discovered and we know that [UMMS] had probably the broadest platform of RNA technology in the world."

RNAi as a platform has been hot lately, gaining favor among academics and companies alike, so much ...

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