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The researchers have filed a patent application for SC27. Other members of the team from UT are Jason McLellan, Patrick O. Byrne, Sean A. Knudson, Douglas R. Townsend, Jessica Kain and Yimin Huang of the Department of Molecular Biosciences; George Georgiou, Ed Satterwhite and Allison Seeger of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering; Jeffrey M. Marchioni of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; and Chelsea Paresi of the Department of Chemistry. Team members from other institutions include Greg Ippolito of the Texas Biomedical ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス Institute; Ralph S. Baric, Michael A. Mallory, John M. Powers, Sarah R. Leist, Jennifer E. Munt and Trevor Scobey of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Epidemiology; Izabella N. Castillo, Melissa Mattocks and Premkumar Lakshmanane of UNC’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Bernadeta Dadonaite and Jesse D. Bloom of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス team received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
