The lead item in today's report highlights Wayne State and a Boston firm that specializes in early-stage university business ventures. The firm, Allied Minds, is partnering with Wayne State to establish a start-up company called GliaGen LLC. The new company will focus on new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to treat neurodegenerative diseases using technology developed by Leon Carlock and Maria Cypher of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the WSU School of Medicine. In addition to commercializing the patent pending technology, GliaGen will support further research at Wayne State . Matt Roush, editor of the IT Report, also featured GliaGen in his daily, morning drive-time report on WWJ Radio.