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AstraZeneca Licenses GVK Toxicity Database

Feb 18, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Drug giant AstraZeneca has licensed GVK Biosciences’ Mechanism Based Toxicity Database, the Hyderabad, India-based firm announced today.

The database contains more than 13,000 drug and drug-like compounds, their routes of metabolism, toxic indications, and the numerical values of the measures of toxicity, according to GVK.

The license extends AstraZeneca’s existing license for all of GVK’s target and drug databases. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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