Evotec AG And Eternygen Enter Collaboration To Identify And Develop Novel Metabolic Disease Therapy

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BERLIN and HAMBURG, Germany, May 6, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evotec AG (Frankfurt:EVT) (TecDAX) (ISIN:DE0005664809) and Eternygen GmbH, a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, today announced a drug discovery collaboration to develop novel small molecule inhibitors against an Eternygen target to treat metabolic diseases using Evotec’s technology platform and broad expertise in drug discovery and pre-clinical development. Eternygen is working on the sodium coupled citrate transporter NaCT, a novel target which is a key regulator of energy metabolism involved in the pathogenesis of fatty liver, diabetes and obesity.

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