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Japanese Drug Firms To Share Compounds

by Michael McCoy
March 24, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 12

The Japanese drug companies Astellas Pharma and Daiichi Sankyo have agreed to exchange libraries of pharmaceutically active compounds for use in high-throughput screening. Starting next month, the partners will provide each other with roughly 400,000 compounds, including a “significant number” of proprietary ones, for a period of three years. Each firm will be able to screen the other’s compounds without restriction to develop new drugs for any human disease.

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