Sirius Collaborates with Parisian Hospitals

Jul 13, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sirius Genomics will work with the Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP) to study genomic markers for severe sepsis under a collaborative agreement, the company said today.

Sirius will work with the hospital system's Clinical Research and Development Department in a program aimed at developing a pharmacogenomic diagnostic to assess the responsiveness of severe sepsis patients to recombinant human activated Protein C, which is sold by Eli Lilly under the trade name Xigris.

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