LEADFINDING.COM, ONLINE HIT-TO-LEAD OPTIMIZATION SERVICE

San Diego, California – December 17th, 2007 – ChemDiv Inc (San Diego) and Quantum Pharmaceuticals (Moscow) announce the launch of LEADFINDING.COM, their powerful new internet-based hit-to-lead optimization service and online chemistry store.
LEADFINDING.COM brings together, the industry leading computational chemistry software from Quantum Pharmaceuticals and ChemDiv’s world’s largest and most diverse small molecule collection for drug discovery. Fully automated web-based interface predicts binding affinities on the fly, facilitating basic hit-to-lead optimization tasks for a wide audience of researchers.
LEADFINDING.COM will be of special interest to academic and biotech researchers who have identified a small molecule hit and wish to deploy LEADFINDING.COM’s expertise in selecting candidate molecules for hit follow-up. We offer an online hit-to-lead service helping identify novel chemical lead series from ChemDiv world’s largest Discovery Collection of small molecules. LEADFINDING.COM provides unique online computational tools including hit analog searches, physiochemical properties filters, and predictions of biological activity (IC50). Availability of all selected molecules can be confirmed for online purchase and immediate delivery.
About LEADFINDING:
LEADFINDING is a joint project of ChemDiv, Inc. (ChemDiv) and Quantum Pharmaceuticals (Quantum). The project is resulting from Quantum’s effort in bringing the power of their computational models to the world life sciences community and ChemDiv’s conceptual approach to modern day discovery process. ChemDiv has been constantly contributing to the evolution of drug discovery roadmap, most recently by introducing the Chemistry Anywhere™ concept. Chemistry Anywhere™ is ChemDiv’s partnering program which by accessing a variety of online research tools shortens the time from design to wet lab results.
About ChemDiv:
ChemDiv ( www.chemdiv.com ) is a global chemistry-driven contract research organization. ChemDiv is focused on identifying and delivering pre-clinical opportunities and services to life science partners for the treatment of life-threatening diseases. Over 17 years ChemDiv provides Discovery outSourceTM solutions including medicinal and synthetic chemistry, pre-clinical development, screening libraries and global logistics. ChemDiv international research team encompasses 550 chemists and biologists in San Diego and Moscow based R&D centers.
About Quantum Pharmaceuticals:
Quantum (www.q-pharm.com) develops and commercializes industry leading computational drug discovery technologies based on applying quantum, molecular and statistical physics in molecular modeling. Our solutions help pharmaceutical companies and research facilities around the world successfully accelerate the identification and optimization of new compounds that have the potential to become drug products.