March 19, 2008

Finding the right business model for systems biology (SB) technology providers has been challenging — that’s hardly a new theme in biotech. Most SB pioneers were founded as platform providers but soon encountered difficulties growing their sales sufficiently to increase valuations. Genstruct, a pioneer in using computational approaches to infer mechanistic hypotheses from large experimental data sets, is no exception.

 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 20, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Genstruct Inc., a systems biology company focused on identifying molecular mechanisms, networks and biomarkers to better understand large scale biology announced today that it has entered into a Master Research Agreement with Pfizer designed to cover current and future collaborations. The first collaboration under this new agreement is in the area of preclinical drug safety, focusing initially on a systems biology analysis of underlying mechanisms of drug-induced liver injury.