Collaborations & Alliances

Pfizer, CYTOO in Research and Option Agreement

Aims to develop a target discovery platform for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

CYTOO and Pfizer Inc. have entered a research collaboration to modify CYTOO’s existing MyoScreen platform to enable its potential use as a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) target discovery platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. DMD is a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that results in progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. CYTOO has developed a muscle-on-a-plate platform using patients’ primary cells, called MyoScreen. MyoScr...

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