Opko Health, Inc. Expands Collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
January 14, 2013 at 01:30 pm
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Opko Health, Inc. announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company relating to OPKO's diagnostic test technology. OPKO's simple blood tests are being developed, based on its proprietary platform technology, to identify biomarkers for a wide variety of diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders and various malignancies. Under the expanded collaboration, work will continue on the Alzheimer's project and additional investigations will use OPKO's technology in an attempt to identify biomarkers that are predictive of drug response(s) in several therapeutic areas.
OPKO Health, Inc. is a multinational biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company. The Company's diagnostics segment consists of the clinical laboratory operations of BioReference Health, LLC (BioReference), its point-of-care operations. Its pharmaceutical segment consists of the pharmaceutical operations in Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Ecuador, France, the United States, and its pharmaceutical research and development operations. Through BioReference, it operates specialized laboratory divisions, such as GenPath (Urology), GenPath (Oncology), and GenPath (Women's Health). It has two commercial stage pharmaceutical products and several pharmaceutical compounds and technologies in various stages of research and development for a range of indications and conditions, including Rayaldee, Rayaldee, Oxyntomodulin, Biologics, NGENLA Somatrogon, and Factor VIIa-CTP. It develops and manufactures specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) through FineTech Pharmaceutical, Ltd.
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