Radioisotope imaging developer Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, MA, reported that it has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop molecular imaging pharmaceuticals to detect and noninvasively monitor the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in patients with congestive heart failure.
The grant is based on Molecular Insight's proprietary single amino acid chelate (SAAC) technology that incorporates ACE inhibitor drug design to build and screen peptide-based libraries. The research will be conducted jointly by the company and the nuclear medicine division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Molecular Insight said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
August 27, 2004
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