Bayer leads massive industry/academia consortium for colon cancer research

11 March 2011

OncoTrack, an international consortium of over 60 scientists, managed by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, part of Germany’s Bayer AG (BAY: DE), and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, has launched one of Europe’s largest collaborative academic-industry research projects to develop and assess novel approaches for identification of new markers for colon cancer.

The unique five-year project, Methods for systematic next generation oncology biomarker development, brings together top scientists from European academic institutions with a wide range of expertise, and partners them with pharmaceutical companies.

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