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Millennium Identifies 18 Drug Targets for Bayer

Oct 08, 1999
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Bayer announced that they have identified 18 novel drug targets and moved four of them into high-throughput screening in less than eight months. In the collaboration, which is taking a production-oriented approach based on genomics research to move compounds toward clinical trials, targets were identified and validated by Millennium and are being screened by Bayer.

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