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Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo, and Takeda Collaborate to analyze Biomarkers on Healthy Adults

 

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Astellas Pharma Inc., Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that they have entered into a joint research agreement. It is an agreement to comprehensively acquire and analyze fundamental biomarker data on healthy adult volunteers in order to optimize and accelerate the development of innovative medicines.

Based on this agreement, Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo, and Takeda will comprehensively acquire fundamental data from healthy adult volunteers that is required for clinical studies using protein and metabolite biomarkers, and undertake joint analysis thereon. Samples will be acquired at a clinical research organization associated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and be under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor at Leiden University.

Through this joint research, it will become possible to establish a base of comprehensive biomarker data something that is difficult for individual pharmaceutical companies to do as well as lead to more effective drug discovery by using a translational research approach.

Biomarkers are used in patient stratification, investigation of a drug’s mechanism of action, and efficacy and safety indices, and are utilized in a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from the exploration stage of drug candidacy to clinical studies and daily diagnostics. However, fundamental biomarker data from healthy adults, which can be used for comparing and contrasting with patients in the preclinical and clinical stages, has not been sufficiently accumulated globally, and further enhancement of data construction is expected.

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