BresaGen signs two new contracts
Tuesday, 02 August, 2005
Adelaide-based BresaGen (ASX:BGN) has signed two new contracts under its protEcol Services business unit.
The first is with Irish based Opsona Therapeutics, which will use BresaGen to progress process development of its pre-clinical immunomodulator, OPN-201. The second contract is with US firm Pepgen Corporation, which first partnered with BresaGen in 2004, to develop a process for Pepgen to produce a novel interferon alpha analog, Neoferon.
Under the contract, BresaGen will further develop the E. coli-based process and produce GLP recombinant protein.
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