Valo to aid Merck KGaA’s discovery efforts in Parkinson’s and related disorders

21 November 2025

USA-based Valo Health, a company using human data and AI to accelerate drug discovery and development, has announced a strategic collaboration with Germany’s Merck KGaA (MRK: DE), to advance therapeutic discovery in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders.

Valo’s AI-enabled human causal biology platform will be used to identify and validate novel disease targets and its closed loop discovery platform to rapidly generate preclinical compounds. 

The partnership includes upfront and potential milestone payments totaling up to more than $3 billion dollars, as well as royalties and R&D funding.

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