Pharmacopeia, Bayer Corp. deal

PCOP and Bayer signed a $20 million, three-year research collaboration that will combine PCOP's combinatorial chemistry capabilities and high-throughput screening technology with Bayer's robotic screening expertise.

PCOP will provide Bayer with libraries of chemical structures using its encoded combinatorial libraries on polymeric support (ECLiPS) technology, and the companies will conduct a collaborative discovery program focusing on an undisclosed molecular target. ...