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Publicatie datum 03 feb 2014 - 07:36
Statutaire naam Galapagos NV
Titel Galapagos receives €2.3 million IWT grant for fibrosis research
Bericht Mechelen, Belgium; 3 February 2014 - Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG) announced today that it has been awarded a €2.3 million grant for research in fibrosis from the Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT). The goal of this 2-year project is to create a new research platform by integrating knowledge from a range of fibrotic diseases, including lung, kidney, liver, and skin fibrosis. This new platform will support Galapagos' efforts to develop novel drug candidates in fibrosis. Galapagos has a fully proprietary portfolio of fibrosis drug targets and molecules. The major aim of this IWT grant is to deliver a comprehensive fibrosis research platform, building on existing tools and considerable expertise within Galapagos and a number of academic laboratories. By integrating data obtained from pre-clinical and clinical research in several fibrotic diseases with similar root causes, G