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Mass High
Tech - May 18, 2011
New
England Peptide, Corvaris help form Proteomics Innovation Network
Mass High Tech
New England
Peptide of Gardner, Corvaris Inc. of Woburn, and 11 other product and
service companies last week said they have started the global Proteomics
Innovation Network to collaborate on unmet needs in drug discovery and
personalized medicine.
A press release from
New England Peptide said each member has complementary expertise, core
technologies and infrastructure to work on biomarker and drug target discovery,
personalized medicine, drug profiling, and selective reaction monitoring.
New England Peptides
CEO Dave Robinson said that because proteomics is growing and evolving
so quickly, it is important for companies to work together. We are
optimistic that this collaboration will fast-track breakthroughs in drug
discovery, personalized medicine, and more, he said in a statement.
The other network
members are ProFACT Proteomics Inc. of Monmouth Junction, N.J.; Eprogen
of Downers Grove, Ill.; Norton Scientific of Thorold, Ontario; Neolomed
Biosciences LLC of Monmouth Junction, N.J.; Focus Proteomics (location
undetermined); the Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network in Canada; Innova
Proteomics of France; Dualsystems Biotech of Switzerland; New Liberty
Proteomics Corp. of Frankfurt, Ky.; Horluce BioConsulting of France; and
the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility in Australia.
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