 This concept both helped fund the original investigators who were source of products, distributed essential research tools to the scientific community at large and generated cash flow to support basic research activities.Collaborative Research, Inc. was the first successful venture of this kind.Sato is co-inventor with his son, Denry Sato, and John Mendelson, CEO of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, of the original technology used in chemotherapeutic agents based on inhibiting the epidermal growth factor receptor as Cetuximab (Erbitux).