Allied Minds, an investment corporation specializing in early-stage university business ventures, is partnering with Wayne State University to establish a start-up company called GliaGen LLC. The company will specialize in cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic technologies designed to treat neurodegenerative diseases. GliaGen has secured platform technology developed by Leon Carlock and Maria Cypher of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the WSU School of Medicine. Under the heading "About Wayne State University," a tagline at the bottom of the article notes, in part, that WSU is "one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting."