Success Stories
Brandeis disease detection technology licensed to global leader
Released on October 17, 2007
Corazonas Foods & Brandeis University
Released on October 8, 2007
Waltham, MA – Corazonas Foods, Inc., creators of great-tasting, heart-healthy snack foods, has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Brandeis University to utilize their technology in creating several new categories of heart-healthy snacks. Brandeis’ innovative technology allows high levels of plant sterols to be incorporated into snack foods while retaining the product’s outstanding flavor. The partnership’s first venture, Corazonas Heart-Healthy Tortilla Chips, are currently the first and only snack chips clinically proven to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a.k.a. “bad cholesterol,” by up to 15 percent. The chips have been a huge hit since debuting in early 2006, further demonstrating the overwhelming consumer demand for healthful snack alternatives without sacrificing great taste.
To Market, to Market
Released in Summer 2007
At Brandeis, what goes on in the laboratory does not necessarily stay in the laboratory. Our works on technology commercialization have been featured in the cover story of the Brandeis University Magazine 2007 Summer issue.
PDF of the article may be downloaded here.
Brandeis University
Released on February 22, 2007
Giant biotech acquires Brandeis spin-out
Released on January 31, 2007
WALTHAM, Mass-Syntonix Pharmaceuticals, a spin-out company formed by Brandeis University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital, Boston announced today that it was acquired by biotech giant Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB - News). Syntonix, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, was founded in 1997 based on breakthrough discoveries from the laboratories of Neil Simister, Ph.D. (Brandeis), Wayne Lencer, M.D. (Children’s), and Richard S. Blumberg, M.D. (Brigham). Their research harnesses the human body’s natural immunological pathways for novel methods of drug delivery.
Researchers find way to produce cholesterol-lowering snack chips
Released on January 31, 2005
WALTHAM, Mass - Brandeis University biology professor K.C. Hayes and Senior Research Associate Andy Pronczuk at the school’s Foster Biomedical Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Brandeis Senior Scientist Daniel Perlman of the Physics Department, have discovered a way to produce chips and other snack foods that can actually lower your cholesterol while you eat them without having any impact on taste.