Barcode, nice find. The inventors are from UMMS where AMBS has this:
"Concurrently with this announcement, Amarantus announced that it has executed an Exclusive Option Agreement with the University of Massachusetts Medical School ("UMMS") to license intellectual property recently developed at UMMS to advance Amarantus' diabetes diagnostic development and commercialization program using Amarantus' lead protein MANF as a biomarker for beta cell stress. "