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Friday, October 3, 2008

Cellumen : Partners with Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation to Develop New Assays for Early Treatment of Alzheimer

September 30, 2008 - Collaboration Will Guide Innovation for Development of Assays to Treat Complex Disease; Cellular Systems Biology Approach to Enable More Physiologically Relevant Drug Screening - Cellumen, Inc. announced an agreement with the Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to apply Cellumens Cellular Systems Biology (CSB) technology to create a cellular model of Alzheimers disease.

The main objective of the partnership is for Cellumen to develop a panel of CSB assays, as well as biosensors of key protein:protein interactions, that reveal the activity of multiple targets and pathways implicated in Alzheimers disease in an intact, functioning cellular system... [PDF] Cellumen's Press Release -