EPA selects Phylonix to screen compound library in zebrafish
Cambridge, MA April 12, 2007 -- Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has been awarded a major, two-year contract for up to $4.3 million by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the agencys ToxCast project to correlate compounds having known toxicities with biological activities in a zebrafish test system. ... "We are very pleased that the EPA has chosen Phylonix to...Phylonix awarded National Science Foundation Phase II SBIR for zebrafish screening
... "This award validates the importance of zebrafish as a predictive model for assessing toxic effects of environmental contaminants on mammalian development," commented Patricia McGrath, Phylonix President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our preliminary d...