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Chemotargets's team (Photo: Barcelona Science Park).
 16.04.2020

Chemotargets opens an investment round to enter a new phase of growth

Chemotargets, a global leader in predictive analytics solutions for the pharma and biotech sector, begins a phase of transformation to expand its activity in the drug discovery sector as a biotechnology company. The company, based in the Barcelona Science Park, is opening an investment round to undertake the transformation of its business model, with tadvice and support of GENESIS Biomed, also located in the Park, and CREA Inversión. 

 

Chemotargets, focused on developing of validated and cutting-edge computational methodologies with top market predictive performance, begins a phase of transformation to become a biotechnology company that will develop new medicines in multiple therapeutic areas, with an initial focus on oncology. Founded in 2006 as a spin-off from Dr. Jordi Mestres’ Systems Pharmacology lab under the auspices of the IMIM Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, a leading academic centre of excellence based in Barcelona, Chemotargets is opening an investment round to undertake the transformation of its business model.

GENESIS Biomed, a well-established consultancy firm in the health and biotech sectors, and CREA Inversión, an M&A boutique advisory firm specialised in corporate transactions and financing, will advise Chemotargets in this transformation.

“We are very motivated to begin a new stage of growth and to discover new bioactive molecules in collaboration with public research centres and pharmaceuticals companies. On this basis, we will consider the creation of new spin-off entities that will discover and develop new potential drugs,” says Chemotargets CEO Dr. Jordi Mestres. The company has developed the ProSurfScan technology, which allows the generation of bioactive molecules using state-of-the-art structure-based, artificial intelligence and data-mining methods for novel therapeutic targets and new interaction modalities (protein – protein, allosteric modulators, etc.).

In parallel, Chemotargets will continue to offer its services to pharmaceutical companies and research centres. Its main business is the provision of services to the life sciences sector based on CLARITY® (European Commission’s Seal of Excellence), a technology that defines the efficacy and safety profiles of new drugs. 

The combined use of CLARITY® and ProSurfScan, to simultaneously optimize the safety and efficacy of newly-discovered therapies, will position Chemotargets as a unique global player in the finding of more effective and safer drugs.

In the transition, a new leadership team will be formed to advance both the current business model of Software and Services and in addition, the rapid development of novel therapeutics in close collaboration with leading research centers and pharmaceutical industry.

Provide solutions to current’s great challenges

The health and social crisis caused by SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has encouraged the company to pursue its principles: “We founded Chemotargets to resolve complex biomedical challenges and we have an obligation to join efforts to find solutions to this major challenge,” says Jordi Mestres.

GENESIS Biomed CEO Josep Lluís Falcó is “excited to start working with Chemotargets in collaboration with CREA Inversión. It is very positive that the sector does not stop despite this severe health crisis. We are extremely proud of undertaking such an ambitious project with CREA Inversión, being the first major collaboration as part of our strategic alliance.”

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