Evotec Extends Medicinal Chemistry Collaboration with Ono Pharmaceutical

16-Oct-2009 - Japan

Evotec AG announced that it has extended its current research collaboration with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Ono) and initiated a new discovery collaboration. Under the contract extension Evotec will provide integrated drug discovery activities, including high throughput screening, medicinal chemistry and in vitro pharmacology to discover novel, small molecular weight compounds active against an ion channel target selected by Ono. Ono will access Evotec’s ion channel drug discovery platform and expertise and Evotec will receive research funding and milestone payments.

Evotec and Ono have collaborated since March 2008 identifying novel inhibitors for a protease target. Within this collaboration Evotec provides protein crystallography, medicinal chemistry, biology and ADMET services to Ono with the aim of progressing a compound towards clinical development.

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