Cambridge-Elan Oculus Volition Focus On Innovative Therapies For Alzheimer's In Addition To Parkinson's Diseases
This exciting collaboration betwixt Cambridge as well as Elan highlights how, yesteryear edifice on the strengths of each of the organisations, nosotros may detect novel ways to care for - as well as vanquish - debilitating diseases similar Alzheimer’s as well as Parkinson’s, expediting the evolution of fundamental enquiry into feasible treatments for the compass goodness of the millions they affect. -- Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
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Cambridge-Elan Centre for Research Innovation as well as Drug Discovery Launched
The University of Cambridge as well as Elan Corporation plc. (NYSE: ELN) today announced the launch of The Cambridge-Elan Centre for Research Innovation as well as Drug Discovery (Cambridge-Elan Centre), which volition live located at the University of Cambridge, England.
The Cambridge-Elan Centre volition render a highly interdisciplinary surround uniquely positioned for delivering world-leading translational enquiry focused on innovative therapies for Alzheimer's as well as Parkinson's diseases.
This ten-year understanding paves the agency for a long-term collaboration betwixt Elan as well as the University of Cambridge.
The destination of the Cambridge-Elan Centre is to regain novel compounds capable of altering the conduct of proteins associated alongside neurodegenerative disorders that tin live developed into novel treatments.
The Centre volition convey together Elan’s 2 decades of sense inwards Alzheimer’s enquiry as well as its depth inwards biological scientific discipline as well as model systems alongside the University of Cambridge’s pioneering contributions inwards the evolution of biophysical approaches to written report the molecular reason of poly peptide misfolding as well as aggregation, as well as their links to disease.
Through the combination of unique strengths, the Cambridge-Elan Centre volition enable investigators across the 2 organisations to explore novel approaches to better the understanding of biophysical as well as biochemical aspects of poly peptide folding as well as misfolding, as well as to explore unique approaches to modulate these processes inwards an endeavor to regain novel therapeutics.
‘This understanding is a natural side yesteryear side footstep inwards the existing working human relationship betwixt our scientists inwards South San Francisco as well as scientists at the University of Cambridge,’ said Dale Schenk, Ph.D., executive vice president as well as master copy scientific officeholder at Elan. ‘This collaborative endeavor complements our portfolio of programs inwards neuroscience as well as supports the procedure of regain which nosotros believe may Pb to a shape of therapeutics that no i has idea possible before.’
Ted Yednock, PhD, executive vice president as well as caput of regain as well as translation for Elan went on to say, ‘Protein folding, misfolding as well as turnover are cardinal to neurological illness as well as volition live the reason for farther scientific as well as therapeutic advancements. Our human relationship alongside Cambridge volition enable us to address the interconnecting biological scientific discipline as well as biophysics of poly peptide misfolding inwards multiple illness areas simultaneously as well as inwards a timely agency for the ultimate compass goodness of patients.’
Commenting on the Centre, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz said, ‘This exciting collaboration betwixt Cambridge as well as Elan highlights how, yesteryear edifice on the strengths of each of the organisations, nosotros may detect novel ways to care for - as well as vanquish - debilitating diseases similar Alzheimer’s as well as Parkinson’s, expediting the evolution of fundamental enquiry into feasible treatments for the compass goodness of the millions they affect.’
Speaking most his human relationship alongside Elan as well as the launch of the Cambridge-Elan Centre, Professor Christopher Dobson FRS, the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical as well as Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge as well as Master of St. John’s College said, ‘I believe that nosotros are creating a Centre that volition croak globally recognized for innovation. Our collective expertise, proven might to collaborate, as well as opened upward innovation model render an exciting reason for the future. The novel Centre volition convey together the skills of scientists working inwards an academic establishment as well as inwards a biotechnology companionship to prepare novel as well as to a greater extent than effective therapies for some of the most devastating as well as increasingly mutual human diseases.’
About Elan
Elan is a neuroscience focused biotechnology companionship committed to making a divergence inwards the lives of patients as well as their families yesteryear dedicating itself to bringing innovations inwards scientific discipline to fill upward pregnant unmet medical needs that proceed to be some the world.
About the University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge’s mission is to contribute to guild through the pursuit of education, learning as well as enquiry at the highest international levels of excellence.
Cambridge’s reputation for excellence is known internationally as well as reflects the scholastic achievements of its academics as well as students, besides every bit the world-class original enquiry carried out yesteryear its staff. Some of the most pregnant scientific breakthroughs occurred at the University, including the splitting of the atom, innovation of the jet engine as well as the discoveries of stalk cells, plate tectonics, pulsars as well as the construction of DNA. From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the University has nurtured some of history’s greatest minds as well as has produced to a greater extent than Nobel Prize winners than whatever other United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland establishment alongside over lxxx laureates.
Source: Elan Corporation plc.
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