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Calico in-licenses cognitive decline assets from UCSF

April 2, 2015 2:06 AM UTC

Calico LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.) received an exclusive license from the University of California San Francisco to technology covering modulators of the integrated stress response to treat cognitive decline.

The parties said the integrated stress response can contribute to memory decline. The UCSF technology was developed in the lab of Peter Walter, professor of biochemistry and biophysics. Carmela Sidrauski, now a scientist at Calico, led the studies while she was at UCSF. ...