Mar. 28, 2005 — Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc., a Mount Pleasant, Mich., provider of dendritic polymers, announced it appointed Michael Pirc, a chemical engineer and licensing manager for The Dow Chemical Company, to its board of directors.
As Dow’s business manager for the company’s technology licensing business, Pirc has overseen licensing for a range of business ventures. At Dendritic, Pirc is charged with helping the company better position itself to engage companies that wish to license the company’s dendrimer patents. In January, Dendritic announced a strategic partnership with Dow that gave Dendritic rights to Dow’s dendrimer patent portfolio.