UMass Medical School Wins Patent
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester have been granted a patent for designing a technique to study genes.
Medical school scientists developed a technique for impacting the RNA interference (RNAi) process. The newly patented technique will be used in gene analysis for drug discovery.
All of the research for the patent has been done at the medical school. Two of the inventors, Phillip Zamore and Craig Mello, are professors at UMass Medical School and also work for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has offices in Boston and Cambridge. Other researchers working on the project at one time worked at the Medical School.
Mello won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of RNAi. He is also a co-founder of RXi Pharmaceuticals, a drug company in Worcester developing treatments based on RNAi, which seeks to interfere with genes thought to be responsible for diseases.
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