Philochem, InterX and Scripps Research announce a Research Collaboration in the Field of DNA-Encoded Chemistry and Tumor Targeting

On August 23, 2021 Philochem, a wholly owned subsidiary of Philogen S.p.A., a publicly-listed company, InterX, Inc., a privately-owned company, and Scripps Research, a non-profit American medical research facility, reported the signature of a research collaboration to discover new small molecule therapeutics using Philochem’s and Scripps’ proprietary DNA-Encoded Chemical Library (DEL) technology and InterX´s proprietary computational chemical biology software platform (Press release, Philogen, AUG 23, 2021, View Source [SID1234586806]).

This collaboration brings together Nobel laureates Roger Kornberg and Michael Levitt with leading DEL technology scientists Richard Lerner and Dario Neri. The team will collaborate on the development of a best-in-class targeting agent for metastatic prostate cancer, a disease that affects millions of patients worldwide.

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Prof. Richard Lerner is Institute Professor at Scripps Research, one of the world’s leading Institutions in chemical and biomedical research. He first postulated the principle of DEL technology in 1992.