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Archived Press Releases

2009

• 2 February 2009
  Argenta Discovery and Almac Announce Contract Drug Discovery Collaboration in Cancer
  
  
• 29 January 2009
  Argenta Discovery and Zafgen Announce Contract Drug Discovery Collaboration in Obesity

2008

• 25 February 2008
  Argenta Discovery Announces the Initiation of a Phase II Clinical Trial with ADC4022
  
  
• 07 January 2008
  Argenta Discovery Announces Collaboration with Antisoma
  
  
• 07 January 2008
  Argenta Discovery to Offer Integrated Electrophysiology and hERG Screening Service Through Alliance with NeuroSolutions

2007

• 26 November 2007
  Argenta Discovery and Dr Reddy's Progress Pre-clinical Anti-inflammatory Candidate to Treat Chronic Respiratory Disease


• 24 October 2007
  Argenta Discovery Announces Two-Year Extension of Major Drug Discovery Collaboration with Genentech


• 15 October 2007
  Argenta Discovery Announces a Significant Collaboration Milestone in the Development of Improved Bronchodilators for COPD


• 2 October 2007
  Argenta Discovery Announces Contract Drug Discovery Collaboration with CellCentric


• 3 September 2007
  Argenta Discovery Limited Reports 2006/7 Results


• 4 April 2007
  Argenta Discovery Announces Contract Drug Discovery Collaboration with BioTie Therapies
  
  
• 1 March 2007
  Argenta Discovery Announces Second Two-Year Drug Discovery Collaboration Project with Genentech
  
  
• 31 January 2007
  Argenta Discovery and AstraZeneca Sign a Research Collaboration and Licensing Agreement to Discover Improved Bronchodilators for COPD

2006

• 8 November 2006
  Argenta Discovery Announces the Initiation of a Phase 1 Clinical Trial with ADC4022
  
  
• 25 July 2006
  Argenta Discovery Announces New Drug Discovery Collaboration with AstraZeneca
  
  
• 2 May 2006
  Argenta Discovery Announces Collaboration with PainCeptor Pharma
  
  
• 22 February 2006
  Argenta Discovery Strengthens Senior Management Team as Respiratory Therapies Near Clinic
  
  
• 2 February 2006
  Dr. Reddy's and Argenta Discovery Announce R&D Collaboration

2005

• 15 December 2005
  Argenta Discovery Announces Two Year Drug Discovery Agreement with Genentech, Inc.
  
  
• 26 October 2005
  Argenta Discovery and Domantis Announce Successful Study of Inhaled Domain Antibody for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  
  
• 29 August 2005
  Argenta Discovery Announces Drug Discovery Collaboration with Cellzome
  
  
• 19 July 2005
  Argenta Discovery Limited Achieves Over 25% Year on Year Revenue Growth Following "Highly Successful Year" (see also 2005 Annual Report)
  
  
• 24 January 2005
  Argenta Discovery & TTP LabTech Launch High Content Assay Development and Screening Service
  
  
• 24 January 2005
  Argenta Discovery Announces Two Year Drug Discovery Agreement with Novartis
  

• 10 January 2005
  Argenta Discovery Appoints Ian Kent as Chairman and Predicts 25% Revenue Growth Year on Year

2004

• 1 November 2004
  Argenta Discovery Appoints Dr Harry Finch, Co-inventor of 'Serevent (TM)' Asthma Therapy, as Senior Vice President, Therapeutics
  
  
• 26 October 2004
  Domantis and Argenta Discovery to Co-develop Domain Antibody Products to Treat Respiratory Disease
  
  
• 04 October 2004
  Argenta and Etiologics Merge to Create Powerful Discovery Services and Respiratory Drug Development Firm
  
  
• 08 March 2004
  Argenta Discovery Ltd. Announces New Research Agreement with AstraZeneca
  
  
• 29 January 2004
  Argenta Discovery Ltd. Announces Collaboration with TTP LabTech
  
  
• 26 January 2004
  Argenta Discovery Ltd. Announces New Agreement with GlaxoSmithKline

2003

• 03 December 2003
  Director of Computer-Aided Drug Design at Argenta Discovery Wins Corwin Hansch Award
  
  
• 21 November 2003
  Argenta Discovery Ltd Announces Research Agreement with Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  
  
• 24 September 2003
  Argenta Discovery Announces Successful Achievement of Critical Milestone in Research Collaboration with Pharmagene plc
  
  
• 19 June 2003
  Argenta Discovery Announces Results for the Year Ended 31 March 2003
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• 16 June 2003
  Etiologics acquires Bayer UK pre-clinical respiratory research group
  
  
• 11 June 2003
  Argenta Discovery Signs Lead Optimisation Deal With Japanese Pharmaceutical Company
  
  
• 30 May 2003
  Argenta Discovery Chief Financial Officer Appointed to the Board
  
  
• 07 May 2003
  Argenta Discovery Announces Collaboration with US Pharmaceutical Company Corcept Therapeutics
  
  
• 14 Jan 2003
  Amedis and Argenta Announce Artificial Intelligence Technology Collaboration

2002

• 16 Dec 2002
  Etiologics appoints Ian Kent, an experienced life-science entrepreneur, as Chairman
  
  
• 02 Dec 2002
  Argenta Discovery and Lundbeck Extend Research Agreement
  
  
• 25 Nov 2002
  Argenta Discovery and Amedis Pharmaceuticals Extend Silicon Chemistry Agreement
  
  
• 18 Nov 2002
  Etiologics appoints Dr Chris Ashton, formerly of Orchid Inc. as Chief Executive Officer
  
  
• 07 Oct 2002
  Etiologics, a new company spun out of the MRC mammalian genetics unit, has unique ability to accurately identify genes associated with human disease
  
  
• 07 Oct 2002
  Argenta Discovery Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
  
  
• 19 Jun 2002
  Argenta Discovery to Collaborate with Amedis Pharmaceuticals
  
  
• 14 Jun 2002
  Argenta Discovery Names Directors of Chemistry
  
  
• 22 May 2002
  Pharmagene plc and Argenta Discovery Enter New Collaborative Alliances
  
  
• 22 Apr 2002
  Argenta Announces Collaboration with Leading Biopharmaceutical Company
  
  
• 3 Apr 2002
  Argenta Discovery Expands R&D Facilities at Harlow Site
  
  
• 3 Apr 2002
  Argenta Discovery Succeeds in Compound Optimisation Project with Aventis
  
  
• 28 Jan 2002
  Argenta Discovery Announces Collaboration with H. Lundbeck A/S

2001

• 17 Dec 2001
  Argenta Discovery Announces Research Agreement with GlaxoSmithKline
  
  
• 31 Oct 2001
  Argenta Discovery and De Novo Pharmaceuticals to Collaborate
  
  
• 16 Oct 2001
  Adolor's Research Collaboration with Argenta Discovery
  
  
• 4 Oct 2001
  Sir Richard Sykes Opens Argenta Discovery Research Laboratories
  
  
• 5 Sep 2001
  Pharmagene plc Collaborates with Argenta Discovery

2000

• 4 Sep 2000
  Tri-Partnership Venture for Drug Discovery Company

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