Dow AgroSciences and MerLion Pharmaceutical Collaborate on Discovery of Novel Agrochemical agents
Dow AgroSciences LLC and MerLion Pharmaceuticals (MerLion Pharma) announced that they have entered into a collaboration to identify candidates for new agrochemical agents. The collaboration will bring together MerLion Pharma's collection of natural product samples, natural product chemistry and bioprocessing expertise with Dow AgroSciences' research and discovery engine. This combination will offer Dow AgroSciences access to a chemical diversity previously untapped for agrochemical use and MerLion entry to this sector alongside its existing human drug discovery business. Commercial terms of the collaboration were not released.
Dow AgroSciences will apply their existing screens to candidates selected from the MerLion sample collection. MerLion will back up this effort with its highly experienced and internationally recognised natural products chemistry and bioprocessing teams, who have reduced dramatically the time taken to characterise bioactive compounds from natural product samples. This combination aims to provide rapid lead identification across a range of high-value agrochemical targets.
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