Sankyo signs up Singapore pharma for natural product leads

By Renate Krelle
Thursday, 21 April, 2005

Private Singapore natural products company MerLion Pharmaceuticals has sealed a three-year cooperative drug discovery and development collaboration with Japan's Sankyo.

The companies will collaborate on both the lead discovery and optimisation stages of the collaboration. Sankyo will provide selected high-throughput screens and additional assays to MerLion, which will provide access to its sample collection. Sankyo will undertake clinical development and commercialisation of the discoveries.

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