SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - July 07, 2008) - Althea Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative technologies and services for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to establish a complementary commercialization partnership with Protein’eXpert (Grenoble, France). Protein’eXpert is a Contract Research Organization devoted to recombinant protein engineering and production for biomedical research applications focusing on optimization of valuable target or therapeutic proteins. The agreement stems from the introduction of the firms through the Lyonbiopôle and Invest in France Agency initiatives in the United States.