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Montana State University’s TechLink plays important role in combating Ebola outbreak

A Montana State University center specializing in transferring U.S. military technology to the private sector played a key role in an experimental treatment that may have saved the lives of two American medical missionaries infected with Ebola and might hold hope for thousands more.

Physician Kent Brantly and aid worker Nancy Writebol were both treated in July with ZMapp, an experimental drug that had its origins in the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and was then shepherded into the private sector thanks to MSU’s TechLink http://techlinkcenter.org/ and the Army technology transfer office.

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/news/15127/montana-state-university-s-techlink-plays-important-role-in-combating-ebola-outbreak

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