Cellumen, NCTR Collaborate on Liver Toxicity Testing

Jun 30, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Cellumen said today that it has entered into a research collaboration with the National Center for Toxicological Research, part of the US Food and Drug Administration, to test known liver toxicity drugs.

Cellumen will use its CellCiphr cell-based assay to create profiles of blinded samples of these compounds from failed and marketed drugs, and the NCTR will incorporate information about these drugs into a liver toxicity knowledge database.

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