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Article: Essential, Fujisawa Team Up In Antibiotics Discovery Effort.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Staff Writer
In an effort to develop new antibiotics, Essential Therapeutics Inc. entered into a collaborative agreement with Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Essential will use its technology to develop assay systems for the discovery of antibiotics, and will perform high-throughput screening of compounds in Fujisawa's library.
"It's the core expertise in antibiotics and anti-infectives that we've been known for since 1992 that they found appealing," said Nancy Wetherbee, Essential's vice president of business development. "Our technology portfolio is quite broad, but Fujisawa does not want us to release this particular technology that was ...