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Pharmaceuticals

Merck In Heart Drug Deal With ElexoPharm

by Lisa M. Jarvis
May 24, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 21

Merck & Co. and German contract research organization ElexoPharm will work together to develop novel drug candidates targeting aldosterone synthase for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Elexo­Pharm scores $1.9 million up front and could receive another $40 million in milestones throughout the course of the pact. ElexoPharm was spun out of Saarland University’s department of pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry in 2005.

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