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Chemist's Thickening Compound Lands $1 Million Federal Grant
March 7, 2005
Dermatologists know that a class of drugs called retinoids can promote skin growth and possibly healing. But they also know that retinoids will have their patients climbing the walls from the irritation. A Memphis scientist thinks he's fixed the problem, and the feds like it so much that they're giving him $1 million to further the idea. A Dutch company is so impressed that it has already asked to help commercialize it when the time comes.
Memphis Business Journal (http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2005/03/07/story7.html)