Entelos and Organon Extend Research Agreement
FOSTER CITY, California, and OSS, the
Netherlands, February 20, 2007 - Organon, the human
healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel and Entelos, Inc. a leading
life sciences company building predictive computer models of human
physiology and “virtual patients” for drug discovery
and development, announced today a two-year extension of their
ongoing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) collaboration. Financial terms
were not disclosed.
“We are very pleased to continue our partnership with
Organon,” stated James Karis, president and CEO of Entelos.
“Organon was one of the first companies to recognize the
potential impact of Entelos’ biosimulation capability and
therapeutic expertise. We believe that our ability to consistently
deliver value to our customers improves their prospects of
developing drugs which directly benefit patients suffering from
serious complex diseases such as RA.”
“The collaboration with Entelos has generated candidate targets and biomarkers which will be pursued under the extension of our collaboration”, said David Nicholson, executive vice president, research & development at Organon. “We continue to seek partnerships that move us to the forefront of RA research and development and look forward to the future benefits of Entelos’ in silico approach in target and biomarker validation.”
In silico R&D is an innovative, rapid and predictive research method aimed at increasing efficiency and productivity across the entire drug discovery and development pipeline. Using virtual patients and virtual drugs and targets, experiments are simulated in a computer, thereby rapidly testing what would otherwise take months or years to do in the laboratory or clinic.
Organon and Entelos have collaborated since 2001 to develop the Entelos® Rheumatoid Arthritis PhysioLab® platform, a large-scale, mathematical model that captures the overall disease process and allows the simulation of both current therapies and drugs in development. Over 700 biological functions or pathways are included in the platform, enabling researchers to predict and evaluate clinical outcomes in response to therapeutic interventions and novel approaches in virtual patients spanning the wide range of real patients in the clinic.
About Organon
Organon creates, manufactures and markets innovative prescription
medicines that improve the health and quality of human life.
Through a combination of innovation and business partnerships,
Organon seeks to leverage its position as a leading
biopharmaceutical company in each of its core therapeutic fields:
fertility, gynecology and selected areas of anesthesia. It has
extensive expertise in neuroscience and a rich and focused R&D
program. Research areas also include immunology and specific areas
of oncology. Organon products are distributed in over 100 countries
worldwide, of which more than 50 have an Organon subsidiary.
Organon is the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel.
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Posted: February 2007
