Graffinity Announces Multitarget Drug Discovery Research Collaboration With Pfizer |
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| Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:39 (UTC + 1) |
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Heidelberg, Germany, November 29, 2007 /b3c newswire/ — Graffinity Pharmaceuticals GmbH announced today that it has entered into its second drug discovery collaboration with Pfizer, Inc. Through the collaboration, Graffinity will provide Pfizer with access to its proprietary, fragment-based screening technology for use in screening Pfizer drug targets. The agreement is Graffinity’s sixth discovery collaboration since it was established as an independent company in 2006. Heidelberg, Germany based Graffinity Pharmaceuticals is a leader in the field of small molecule fragment based drug discovery. The company pursues high-profile drug discovery collaborations with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide. Graffinity employs a flexible business model which allows it to tailor programs to the specific needs of each partner and offers numerous benefits to its customers on a straightforward fee-for-service basis. Graffinity’s fragment screening platform combines chemical microarrays with a proprietary method for the standardized, label-free detection of compound-protein interactions via SPR imaging. The company’s rapid and scalable drug discovery technology explores a rich chemical universe to identify drug fragments which address challenging drug targets. With its 110,000-compound library that contains 23,000 true fragments, Graffinity possesses one of the most diverse fragment libraries. Graffinity has established collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners including Amgen, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Genentech, Pfizer and Merck-Serono. Graffinity’s unique fragment based discovery platform has been invented in 1998, and has been in routine industrial use since 2002 in screening more than 60 drug targets.
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