Posts Tagged: "peanuts"

Phase 3 trial starts for treatment for peanut allergy

It is estimated that more than 30 million people in the United States and Europe have a food allergy, and more than five million people in the United States and Europe have peanut allergy, including more than two million children. Bouyed by success in earlier rounds of FDA testing, Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. (NADSAQ: AIMT) announced earlier today that it has enrolled the first patient in the pivotal Phase 3 PALISADE trial of its lead product candidate, AR101 for the treatment of peanut allergy. Previously, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted AR101 Breakthrough Therapy Designation status, and in September 2014 the FDA gave AR101 fast track designation even before Phase 2 clinical data was available.

Gene Quinn

January 11, 2016

Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The first patent received by an HBCU was on April 11, 1978, assigned to Shaw University of Raleigh, NC. Between 1969 and 2012, HBCUs received 100 utility patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in various fields, including energy, advanced manufacturing technology, nanotechnology and breast cancer treatment. Although this is a very small portion of patents issued by the USPTO during that period, the rate at which HBCUs have received patents has increased exponentially in recent years. In 2010, HBCUs received 10 patents; in 2011, 17 patents; and in 2012, 24 patents.

Gene Quinn & Steve Brachmann

February 17, 2014

The Legacy of George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Educator, Innovator and Renaissance Man

This experience in helping Southern farmers improve the soil in their fields soon led to what was to become a passion for Carver: peanuts. While peanuts were very useful in enriching the soil with nutrients, a new problem then arose: what to do with this plentiful crop of peanuts? And having now encouraged farmers to plant more peanuts to enrich the soil, Carver felt it was his obligation to find more uses for what was now becoming an overabundant commodity. So in 1903, Carver began working in earnest on peanut science, and especially on the potential uses of peanuts. This research by Carver on peanuts made him the innovator of what eventually became a highly marketable and profitable industry now worth well in excess of $500 million.

Eric Guttag

February 12, 2014