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Merck and Luminex Corporation Enter Agreement to Develop Companion Diagnostic to Support Investigational BACE inhibitor Clinical Development Program for Alzheimers Disease
2013-03-13 13:30:00| Merck.com - Research & Development News
Dateline City: WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & AUSTIN, Texas Collaboration to Support Patient Selection for the Clinical Development of MK-8931, Mercks Lead Investigational Medicine for Alzheimers Disease WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ:LMNX) have signed a collaboration and license agreement to develop a companion diagnostic device that will be evaluated to help screen patients for recruitment into Merck's clinical development program for MK-8931, a novel oral beta amyloid precursor protein site cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor and Merck's lead investigational candidate for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Language: English Contact HTML: Media Contacts:MerckCaroline Lappetito, 267-305-7639orLuminexMimi Torrington, 512-219-8020mtorrington@luminexcorp.comorInvestor Contacts:MerckCarol Ferguson, 908-423-4465orLuminexMatt Scalo, 512-336-3587mscalo@luminexcorp.com Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE Ticker: LMNX Exchange: NASDAQ read more
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