BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The recent licensing deal between Mercury Therapeutics and Debiopharm showcases the highly successful partnership between Mercury Therapeutics and CreaGen Biosciences, said CreaGen in a statement released today.
For the past three years, Mercury has partnered with CreaGen for medicinal chemistry-based outsourcing of their lead generation program seeking to develop small molecule activators of AMP activated protein kinase. Novel AMPK activators hold promise for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.