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NOIDA, India and NEW HOPE, Pa., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Jubilant Organosys Ltd., headquartered at Noida, near New Delhi, announced today that its Bangalore-based subsidiary, Jubilant Biosys Ltd., has entered into a drug discovery partnership with BioLeap, LLC, USA. Under this partnership, BioLeap and Jubilant will integrate BioLeap's leading edge computational fragment based drug design platform with Jubilant's expertise in chemistry, biology and crystallography to offer a highly competitive preclinical drug development platform. The partnership will provide customers with integrated pre-clinical drug discovery services from lead identification and optimization to IND (Investigational New Drug) candidate selection for multiple therapeutic areas.
Commenting on the development, Sri Mosur, CEO & President, Jubilant Biosys, said: "We are very pleased to partner with BioLeap to offer the pharmaceutical industry our combined 'best in class' preclinical drug discovery capabilities."
Gerald Evans, BioLeap Chief Business Officer added, "We are delighted to have the opportunity to offer our partners the combined capabilities of Jubilant and BioLeap. This partnership leverages and combines the innovation capabilities of Jubilant Biosys in pharmaceutical discovery and preclinical development with BioLeap's leading edge computational fragment-based design capabilities, to deliver high quality, cost-effective pre-clinical drug discovery services."
BioLeap's platform technology is completely "in-silico," and it quickly predicts binding information providing drug designers new insights to efficiently create novel molecules and/or improve existing molecules without the limitations of library screening, thereby reducing the time and cost of traditional screening methods.
Many current screening programs have hit barriers with regards to finding
small molecule candidates for viable validate
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