US GOVERNMENT CONTRACT FOR CYPROTEX

Macclesfield-based drug testing specialist Cyprotex has won a five-year contract with the US government.



It has been signed up by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of its ToxCast Project which is developing ways to predict the potential toxicity of chemicals and an approach for prioritising the thousands of chemicals that need toxicity testing. 



The project uses advanced scientific tools to help understand how human body processes are affected by exposures to chemicals and which chemicals are most likely to have to adverse health effects.

Cyprotex will be providing high content imaging bioassay analysis of the ToxCast compound library. The company had expected to start work on the contract last year. The value of the contract was not given.



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