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June 22, 2005
The hat-trick ...
OK, we got the Schering AG deal yesterday (pdf).
And still they keep coming ...
Big Pharma companies are more than ever anxious to find viable lead compounds and consequently are keen to make use of technologies which will give them any kind of an edge, against the targets themselves and the competition. Which is where companies like Nuevolution come into the picture. We claim to be able to find high-affinity binders for pretty much any target you can give us in a timespan measured in months rather than years. I don't know much biology (or chemistry) but from what I can glean from some of the smart cookies at Nuevo, we have developed original - and functional - technology over the last four years in order to do this (including some stunningly impressive software ...)
For me, the really interesting part right now is managing all the data which will inevitably spin off from these collaborations, and keeping it in its rightful place. Fortunately, with enough planning and some careful design and development, delivering this kind of partitioning and security isn't as much of a headache as it was 10 years ago.
Posted by daen at June 22, 2005 12:52 AM