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Xceleron and Servier to Accelerate Drug Development Using Microdosing

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, (GenomeWeb News) - Under a collaborative agreement, XCeleron will provide Servier accelerator mass spectrometry services to study candidate drugs in humans, Xceleron said yesterday.

 

Servier will accelerate drug development by testing candidate drugs in phase 0 microdose studies instead of waiting for conventional phase 1 studies.

 

The 12-month rolling agreement allows the pharmaceutical company to include early human studies as part of its drug candidate selection process, Xceleron said.

 

Financial details were not disclosed.

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