Expedited Process Agreement Background/Overview:Expedited Process Agreement • August 4th, 2009
Contract Type FiledAugust 4th, 2009The Harvard Medical School (“HMS”) received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (the “Grant”) to form a new repository of plasmids (the “Repository”) to store, maintain, and facilitate the collection and exchange of plasmids (the “Plasmids”) among researchers at academic, profit, and non-profit institutions for non-commercial, basic biological and biomedical research. Plasmids were shared with HMS by researchers at one or more institutions (each, a “Depositor Institution”) for distribution in accordance with a Standard Material Transfer Agreement. HMS has established a process, which is more fully detailed below, to effectuate the most efficient distribution of the Plasmids. An institution wishing to be eligible to receive Plasmids from the Repository (a “Recipient Institution”) by this more efficient distribution process is required to complete and submit this document to HMS.