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Medros to conduct screenings for drugs to treat diabetes and cancer

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 11th, 2006

A new St. Louis-based company will use a novel technology to rapidly screen thousands of drugs for their effectiveness against two of the biggest health threats in the United States - diabetes and cancer.

Ross Cagan, PhD, professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Thomas Baranski, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, will head the new company, Medros Inc. The company's technology can identify drugs with medical benefit by capitalizing on extensive information currently available about fruit fly biology and genetics.

Launched with the joint backing of the School of Medicine and BioGenerator,...

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