Recent Announcements

August 17, 2007 | UNH license agreement finalized Robert Dalton, Director of the Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization of the University of New Hampshire, and Bill Hersman, Professor of Physics at UNH and CEO of Xemed LLC, signed an intellectual property agreement providing for exclusive licensing to Xemed of UNH patented technology and expertise related to diagnostic medical imaging. Xemed LLC is a New Hampshire based company founded by Prof. Hersman in 2004 to commercialize technology he invented for the production of magnetized gases for magnetic resonance imaging. In addition to refining the production technology, Xemed is pursuing clinical demonstrations and regulatory approval of its magnetized gas products MagniXene™ and MagniLium™ as safe and effective pulmonary functional imaging agents.

May 21, 2007 | Hersman elected to leadership of scientific group. The membership of the Hyperpolarized Media Magnetic Resonance Study Group, a subgroup of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, elected Prof. Bill Hersman to its executive committee. The HMMR Study Group consists of over one hundred scientists, clinicians, and members of the commercial sector involved in the development of hyperpolarized media MR contrast agents. Hersman will serve as Secretary this year, as Program Director next year, and as President the following year.

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