PLANEGG-MARTINSRIED, Germany, February 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Martinsried drug discovery and development company 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC) and the Wuppertal-based AiCuris GmbH & Co KG today announced that they have entered into a research collaboration. The long-term goal of this collaboration is to jointly set-up a product pipeline with innovative, anti-infective drug candidates.
It has been agreed in a first step that 4SC AG will, within the context of its collaboration business segment, provide extensive resources from its medicinal chemistry to AiCuris, for research purposes. In return 4SC AG is to receive relevant research funds, of an undisclosed amount, which are to be used for further development of its own project pipeline.