Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery

Strasbourg, France (Ulrich Oestringer, WikiTravel)

Alsace BioValley, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, a health science cluster and Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery in Nuns’ Island, Québec, Canada, signed in Paris today an agreement for a bilateral partnership to benefit Alsatian and Québec research centers and industries in the health and life sciences.

The agreement calls for co-financing of R&D collaborative projects in health and therapeutic innovation. These two to three year projects, funded through public-private partnerships, are expected to develop new tools for the discovery of safer and more effective drugs.

The new arrangement extends an existing pilot agreement between the two organizations that funded two research projects already underway, to identify new biomarkers for neuroendocrine cancers and develop a new transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.

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