University of Texas at Austin Moot Corp Competition will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to celebrate the winner of the 2009 Global Moot Corp Competition, Novophage Therapeutics.
In honor of the occasion, University of Texas at Austin Moot Corp representatives and the founders of Novophage Therapeutics, the 2009 Global Champion, will preside over the Opening Bell.
University of Texas at Austin is a NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation partner.
About the Moot Corp Program:
Begun at the University of Texas at Austin by MBA students in 1984, the Moot Corp Competition is the oldest new venture competition in the world. The Competition provides graduate students with a chance to simulate the real world process of raising venture capital. Each May, teams from around the world come to Austin to compete in "the Super Bowl of world business plan competition." Visit www.mootcorp.org for more information.
About NASDAQ OMX:
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,900 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, including First North; and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs.
NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.