PerkinElmer and Cerep collaborate in custom drug discovery services

Under the terms of the agreement, PerkinElmer will exclusively market Cerep’s target screening and profiling services to its customers, and the companies will jointly promote PerkinElmer’s assay technologies and Cerep services to the drug discovery market.

This agreement provides PerkinElmer customers with an option to work with a single vendor throughout the entire drug discovery process. Cerep customers will now have access to several key assay development and detection platforms from PerkinElmer’s Bio-discovery business, including AlphaScreen, AlphaLISA, Lance and Lance Ultra for G protein-coupled receptor and kinase assay development.

Robert Friel, president and CEO of PerkinElmer, said: “Our customers will benefit from direct access to Cerep’s expertise in high throughput screening and profiling services, while PerkinElmer will be able to extend the reach of our leading assay technologies and assay development services into key drug discovery markets.”