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ProSanos, Windber Research Institute Collaborate to Study Impact of Lifestyle on Disease

Sep 24, 2002

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 - ProSanos and the Windber Research Institute have partnered to study the impact of lifestyle changes on patient response to disease, the organizations said today.

 

ProSanos, based in La Jolla, Calif., will provide bioinformatics for data integration and disease modeling based on biological samples from Windber, Penn.-based Windber Research Institute.

 

Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

 

The collaboration will initially focus on the treatment of heart disease, according to the organizations.

 

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