Isis, UCL and Imperial announce materials agreement

Isis Innovation, UCL Business and Imperial Innovations, the tech transfer offices (TTO) of Oxford, University College London and Imperial College London respectively, have prepared a new easy-to-use material evaluation agreement for companies.

The collaboration is the first of a number of agreements that the TTOs intend to produce together.

In a statement, Isis Innovation said that the new agreement will minimise the work required for the company to make a start and “allows interested companies to access and evaluate the materials to see if they are of commercial interest to the company.”

It added: “The materials that can be evaluated using this agreement include specific reagents, products or devices with applications in a broad range of fields such as diagnostics, drug development, drug screening tools, catalysts, nanomaterials including graphenes and biosensors. It is also envisaged that this agreement can be used to evaluate materials that form part of a broader package of intellectual property.”