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Montana State University researchers have developed six new biomedical technologies that could help benefit society.

The technologies could have applications for treating antibiotic resistant infections, fungal infections, and viral infections... boosting humans innate immunity and improving scientists' ability to study such compounds.

"One of the exciting things about these technologies is that they come out of work we do to explore what kind of native plants or ural products might lead to pharmaceautical therapies," said MSU Associate Director of Technology Transfer Nick Zelver. "Some of these come out of native weeds grown in Montana, some come out of plants in other parts of the world, and some come out of chemical drugs that are available for other types of treatments but can be applied to for example antibiotic resistant bacterial infections."

Zelver says he would like to get word out that these technologies are available so that companies can work with the researchers to move the technologies into commercial development and the marketplace.

"If a drug can get out to the marketplace, that can provide new cures or improve drugs that are already available," Zelver said. "But also we can benefit the economy broadly speaking and particularly the local economy."

Zelver says they've grown their research expenditures to close to $110 million a year.