Cognis develops two more active ingredients for weight management and cognitive performance from InterMed Discovery

15-Jul-2010 - Germany

Cognis and InterMed Discovery (IMD) are continuing their strategic cooperation: Cognis has now exclusively licensed two new active ingredients for weight management and cognitive performance from IMD, further expanding the company’s innovation pipeline. Tests on the products Cognis has already acquired from IMD are already delivering promising results.

The sales potential is increasing for active ingredients in functional foods to support weight management and benefit heart and brain health, largely because obesity is becoming a major public health problem in many parts of the world and society as a whole is getting older. During their ongoing collaboration, Cognis and IMD have utilized IMD’s database of biologically active natural substances and its unique IMD Bioprofiling® technology platform to discover innovative functional ingredients for specific food applications, and to bring suitable active substances to market-readiness.

In combination with Cognis’ experience and expertise in nutrition, this has led to the discovery of additional product candidates that help with weight management and cognitive performance. Cognis’ own research has given it insights into important aspects of brain health such as learning ability, cognitive performance (and ways of maintaining this with age), alertness, and concentration. One of the candidates is a new ingredient that is showing promising benefits for weight management in different test systems. The second new ingredient is a promising product for improving brain health, as in vivo tests have shown potential on cognitive performance. Cognis plans to carry out further in vivo tests and research studies for these ingredients later this year.

Cognis has already licensed four other ingredients from IMD targeting weight management and heart health. Clinical studies for one of these projects will already begin later this year. The other licensed ingredients are currently in advanced preclinical testing and scale-up process.

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