Waltham, Mass – January 4, 2020 – X-Chem Inc. (X-Chem), the global leader in DNA-Encoded Library (DEL) technology to identify novel drug leads, announced today that Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) has licensed a second drug discovery program from X-Chem.
Munich, Germany and Waltham, Mass –October 1, 2020 – Proteros Biostructures GmbH (Proteros) and X-Chem, Inc. (X-Chem) announced today the launch of an alliance with the goal of offering Hit-Identification and Target-to-Lead drug discovery services based on their complementary technology platforms. The alliance combines Proteros’ strengths in protein sciences, structural biology (crystallography and CryoEM), and […]
Waltham, Mass – July 22, 2020 – X-Chem, Inc. (X-Chem), the global leader in DNA-encoded small molecule library screening and drug discovery, announced today that it has met a key development milestone in its collaboration with Orexia Limited (Orexia), a company focused on developing orexin positive modulators using unique structure based drug design capabilities.
The activity of the secreted phosphodiesterase autotaxin produces the inflammatory signaling molecule LPA and has been associated with a number of human diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We screened a single DNA-encoded chemical library (DECL) of 225 million compounds and identified a series of potent inhibitors. Optimization of this series led to the discovery […]
June 11th 2020|J Med Chem Machine Learning on DNA-Encoded Libraries|A New Paradigm for Hit Finding DNA-encoded small molecule libraries (DELs) have enabled discovery of novel inhibitors for many distinct protein targets of therapeutic value. We demonstrate a new approach applying machine learning to DEL selection data by identifying active molecules from large libraries of commercial […]
WALTHAM, Mass. – June 11, 2020 – X-Chem, Inc., the leader in DNA-encoded small molecule library screening, and ZebiAI Therapeutics, a drug discovery company unlocking new disease targets, today announced the publication of a large prospective study to evaluate the power of machine learning (ML) to accelerate and improve the drug discovery process. The study, […]
London, UK – Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP (GHO), the European specialist investor in healthcare, announces the acquisition of X-Chem, Inc. (X-Chem), the industry-leading provider of DNA-Encoded Library (DEL)-based discovery services, from an affiliate of The Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman LLC.
Waltham, Mass – May 20, 2020 – X-Chem, Inc. (X-Chem), a privately held biotechnology company focused on applying its next-generation, industry-leading DNA-Encoded library (DEXTM) drug discovery platform to the generation of novel small molecule therapeutics, announced today that Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) has licensed a drug discovery program from X-Chem.
WALTHAM, Mass. – February 5, 2019 – X-Chem, Inc. (X-Chem), a privately held biotechnology company focused on applying its next-generation, industry-leading DNA-Encoded library (DEXTM) drug discovery platform to the generation of novel small molecule therapeutics, announced today a drug discovery partnership with ALK-Abelló A/S (ALK), a Danish pharmaceutical company focused on the prevention and treatment […]
New venture capital-backed artificial intelligence company to utilize X-Chem’s leading DNA encoded library screening service WALTHAM, Mass. – ZebiAI Therapeutics, Inc. and X-Chem, Inc., both of Waltham, MA, and privately held companies, today announced a multiyear service and license agreement. The agreement provides ZebiAI access to X-Chem’s proprietary DNA Encoded Library technology (DEX™) for the […]
