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9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
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10. Related Party Transactions
 
While employed at USC, Kathleen Danenberg, former Chief Executive Scientific and Technology Officer and director, developed and patented an extraction method that allowed reliable and consistent isolation of RNA from FFPE suitable for RT-PCR. USC retains ownership of this patent but has exclusively licensed this technology to the Company. In consideration for this license, the Company is obligated to pay royalties to USC, as a percentage of net sales of products or services using the technology, and to meet a certain minimum in royalty payments. Pursuant to USC policy, the inventors of technology owned by the University and then licensed for commercialization are paid a portion of royalties received by the University from the licensed technology. USC therefore pays a portion of royalties received from the Company to Mrs. Danenberg in recognition of her invention. For nine months ended September, 2010, Mrs. Danenberg was paid $32,758. No amounts were paid during the three months ended September 30, 2010. For the three months ended September 30, 2011, Mrs. Danenberg was paid $106,950 and for the nine months ended Mrs. Danenberg was paid $261,599.