Rheoscience AS
Executive Summary
Rheoscience focuses on target discovery in diabetes, obesity and the metabolic syndrome. To fund its target discovery activities, the company also provides preclinical research services, offering access to a range of novel animal models for validating experimental data and for use in the preclinical and early clinical phases of the drug discovery process.
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