J&J, University of Dundee, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford deal

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. unit partnered with the universities’ National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) under the group’s Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi) to develop assays to screen Janssen compounds. Janssen will nominate eight phenotypic problems for which the group will develop assays and screen Janssen compounds. Janssen will retain rights to data generated on its compounds, and the technical details of the assays will be published after one year. ...