Date: 2014-07-08
Type of information: R&D agreement
Compound: ‘satellite unit’ in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
Company: AstraZeneca (UK), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Germany)
Therapeutic area: Cardiovascular diseases - Metabolic diseases
Type agreement: R&D
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Details: * On July 8, 2014, AstraZeneca announced an agreement with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (MPI), Germany, to establish a ‘satellite unit’ in cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CVMD), linked to AstraZeneca’s CVMD Innovative Medicines unit (iMed) in Mölndal, Sweden, to study new modalities chemistry. The new collaboration will see AstraZeneca scientists working side-by-side with researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, in the Department of Chemical Biology, led by Professor Herbert Waldmann. The satellite unit will focus on novel chemistry and chemical biology in areas of new modality chemistry such as stabilised peptides, macrocycles and conjugation chemistry. In March 2013 AstraZeneca initiated a similar collaboration with the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet that created an Integrated Translational Research Centre (ICMC) for cardiovascular and metabolic disease and regenerative medicine located at Karolinska Institutet’s site in Stockholm, Sweden. The ICMC conducts preclinical and clinical studies aimed at advancing the understanding of cardiovascular and metabolic disease pathophysiology and assessing new drug targets for AstraZeneca’s two biotech units, the iMed and MedImmune.
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