MRCT looks east

MRC Technology (MRCT) is broadening its reach to Asia with a new strategy that extends beyond the source and geography of its original mission to serve as the tech transfer arm of the U.K.'s Medical Research Council (MRC). The translational organization has partnered with the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPS-CAS) to establish a center in Shanghai in part to tap into the local Pasteur's strength in infectious diseases.

The new organization - dubbed the IPS-MRCT Joint Centre for Therapeutic Antibodies - will perform preclinical research on antibody projects provided by the founding organizations...