Target Identification/ Validation News for March 2013

Target Identification/ Validation News Archive

Medical Research Council Technology and MS Society Launch Joint ‘Call for Targets’ Medical Research Council Technology and MS Society Launch Joint ‘Call for Targets’

MRC Technology, a technology transfer organisation with its own drug discovery laboratories, and the MS Society, a charity providing support and research funding for people affected by MS, today announced a joint ‘call for targets’ in order to fast-track the discovery and development of novel drugs to slow, stop or reverse progression in MS or treat MS symptoms. The call to academic researchers seeks to fund further validation of small molecule and antibody targets prior to initiating a full scale drug discovery project to produce ‘drug-like’ molecules or therapeutic antibodies that have the potential to become therapies.