Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Pharmaceutical Consultancy
| Branch/Service | Pharma Consultancy |
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| Title: | Evaluation of potential of plants that have been described as antiviral in order to identify LEAD structures for herpes virus treatment |
| Client description: | R&D based pharma company focussed on development of antiviral agents |
| Client’s challenge: | No in-house NP capabilities, no botanical or chemotaxonomic expertise |
| Client’s demand: | Needs assessment whether purchase of samples for further biological screening can be expected as worthwhile. |
| IMD’s strength: | Long-term expertise in taxonomy, chemotaxonomy, capability to correlate chemical structure with biological activity allows to generate sound and reliable recommendations |
| IMD’s assignment: | Reccomend further steps based on evaluation of potetial of plants |
| IMD’s approach: | - Analysis of literature
- Analysis of chemotaxonomical information
- Analysis of extraction procedures
- Subsequent identification of compounds
- Chemical evalutation of compounds
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| Results: | Early no-go decision. |
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