Oct 5, 2005
Grubbs, Schrock, and Chauvin Get Nobel in Chemistry
Oct. 5, 2005 (Bloomberg) — Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a method used by the chemical industry to make drugs and plastics more efficiently and with less harmful waste. Read more
PASADENA, CA. and MINNEAPOLIS, MN – August 2005. Materia, Inc. and Cargill have accomplished two significant advancements in their joint effort to use Materia’s proprietary olefin metathesis technology for converting biobased oils to industrial chemicals, feedstocks and consumer products. Read more
PASADENA, CA and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 2005. Materia, Inc. and Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement providing Sunesis access to Materia’s proprietary metathesis technology for use in the synthesis of a compound under development. Terms of the agreement were not announced but grant Sunesis a license for catalyst use and access to collaborative services for their process optimization and specify supply terms for development quantities of specified Grubbs Catalysts. Read more
PASADENA, CA – April 2005. Cargill and Materia, Inc. today announced the expansion of a development agreement for Cargill’s use of Materia’s proprietary olefin metathesis technology for converting biobased oils to industrial chemicals, feedstocks and consumer products. The agreement provides Cargill an expanded field and exclusive license while providing Materia increased funding for accelerated research. Specific terms were not disclosed. Read more