HotSpot Therapeutics acquires Macroceutics

23 August 2019

Privately-held US biotech HotSpot Therapeutics today announced the acquisition of Macroceutics, a provider of DNA-encoded library (DEL) screening technologies.

The outgrowth of a strategic collaboration, the acquisition will enhance HotSpot’s SpotFinder platform, the first drug discovery platform to systematically predict, drug and differentiate unique regulatory hotspots on proteins.

"In working with the Macroceutics team, we were excited by their bespoke libraries and capabilities and the potential to marry the power of DNA-encoded library synthesis with specifically designed scaffolds to target regulatory hotspots," said Dr Geraldine Harriman, co-founder and chief scientific officer of HotSpot Therapeutics, which was founded in 2017.

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