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BIRAC Success Stories | 2016 Strand Life Sciences

Key Highlights

* Technology Platform launched in 2014.
Breakthrough * Platform is already being used by
several established multi-national
• Developed a novel systems approach pharmaceutical companies.
to model biological pathways in the * Platform acquired by Syngene
liver. International for use in conjunction with
• A detailed predictive platform other services they provide.
capable of predicting Drug Induced * Employment to ~20 professionals.
Liver Injury. * 2 International patents.
• Approach helps in replacing/
reducing animal usage but also a
major knowledge addition for toxicity
prediction.
• Primarily designed to predict
hepatotoxicity in the liver, platform
can also be used for other organs such
as the kidney and the heart.

BIRAC’s Support

BIPP fund helped to set up a state-of-
the-art laboratory and retaining a set
of 5 scientists to work on the project.
Under BIPP project, 50 compounds
ran as a validation set through the
predictive platform.

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