Cresset and Redx Pharma Announce Major Drug Discovery Collaboration

Cresset and Redx Pharma have announced that they have signed a major drug discovery collaboration. The collaboration gives Redx Pharma access to Cresset’s publicly available and proprietary computational chemistry technologies for use on their portfolio of drug discovery programs.

In addition Cresset will provide consulting services in the area of candidate selection across a broad range of therapeutic areas and targets.

Rob Scoffin, CEO of Cresset said, “Cresset has developed an extensive range of consulting services around the critical areas of library design, compound design, virtual screening and lead optimization. In this case we will initially be focussing our skills on helping Redx with their lead candidate selection process, whilst the collaboration also gives Redx the ability to access our expertise, in a very flexible manner, across the full range of computational Drug Discovery services.”

“Cresset is a valuable partner in our Drug Discovery programs”, commented Dr Neil Murray, CEO of Redx Pharma, “Their deep knowledge of computational chemistry and its application to drug discovery is enabling us to progress multiple projects across a wide range of target classes very quickly and cost-effectively”.

The Redx programs make use of a number of Cresset’s computational chemistry tools. In particular FieldTemplater and FieldAlign are used respectively to provide binding hypotheses and predictions of likely biological similarity for sets of molecules in various lead series.