TEL AVIV, Israel & BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speaking today in Barcelona at the Fifth Peptide Engineering Meeting, Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN) project manager Dr. Yossef Kliger provided an overview of Compugen’s DAC Blockers Platform and reviewed disease model data for selected product candidates. Among the product candidates reviewed were targets belonging to the Heat Shock Protein family, currently a key area of focus for Compugen with respect to this platform. A paper describing the DAC Blockers Platform for the in silico design of peptides predicted to block target proteins from attaining disease associated conformations was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2009 Aug 18; 106(33):13797-801.
