What is a Material Transfer Agreement?
A Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) is an agreement whereas one party agrees to provide another party with there materials. MTAs should always be considered when conducting any outside collaborations with industry or other academic institutions. MTAs are typically used to protect materials that may be proprietary and/or embody a trade secret.
A Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) is a written contract between a provider and a recipient of research material. The purpose of the MTA is to define the rights of the provider and recipient with respect to the intellectual property (actual and potential), liability, confidentiality of provider information, publication of recipient research results, and other associated legal formalities that the provider and recipient may wish to cover in the transaction. Biological materials, such as reagents, cell lines, plasmids, and vectors, are the most frequently transferred materials, but MTAs may also be used for other types of materials, such as chemical compounds, equipment, and even some types of software. Often these materials are a necessary component of a research project and are prohibitively expensive or wholly unavailable on the commercial open market; in some cases the only source may be a for-profit entity that is still conducting its own research on the materials. Chances are good
A Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) is a contract for governing the exchange of tangible research materials between academic, government, and commercial organizations. The types of materials typically transferred under MTAs include cell lines, cultures, plasmids, nucleotides, proteins, bacteria, transgenic animals, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and other proprietary physical materials.
