TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN) announced today the development and validation of its Blockers of Disease-Associated Conformation (DAC Blockers) platform, a new discovery platform for the identification of peptides that block proteins from adopting their disease-associated conformations. To date, two of the predicted therapeutic peptide candidates from the pilot validation run of the platform have shown initial experimental verification, one with anti-inflammatory and the other with anti-cancer activities.