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Myeloma UK and the SGC announce open-access collaboration to discover new drug targets for myeloma

General Research

Myeloma UK and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) have entered into an open-access research partnership to discover and characterise novel drug targets for myeloma using structural biology and chemical proteomics.

In this first partnership of its kind in Europe, Myeloma UK and the SGC have explicitly agreed not to file for patents on any of the collaborative research and to make all reagents and knowledge available without restriction to the wider research community, including pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic research groups.

Read more (SGC website)

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