MedImmune joins forces with US university to explore CKD treatments

11 February 2016

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, is to join forces with the University of Michigan and Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of chronic kidney diseases (CKD), it has been announced.

The renal pre-competitive consortium (RPC2) will combine the R&D expertise of the pharmaceutical industry with clinical and molecular data collected by University of Michigan nephrologist, Matthias Kretzler.

Professor Kretzler has established a renal database containing information from more than 1,000 patients, as well as from multiple animal models of CKD to advance research into the condition.

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