Press Release

Institut Pasteur Korea and Euroscreen Form Strategic Alliance for GPCR Drug Discovery

2006-03-03
Institut Pasteur Korea and Euroscreen Form Strategic Alliance for GPCR Drug Discovery
Institut Pasteur Korea, Seoul, Korea; and Euroscreen, Brussels, Belgium., February 20, 2006.

The Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) and Euroscreen s.a. today announced a partnership to perform screening of G protein coupled receptors using internalization assays. The development at the Institut Pasteur Korea of a visual-based High Throughput Screening platform offers unique opportunities for the identification of drug candidates activating receptor internalization while Euroscreen?s receptor cell lines and GPCR library compounds will provide the initial direction and components for this drug discovery collaboration.