Vyant Bio, Inc. and OrganoTherapeutic announced they have entered into a collaboration agreement to work toward accelerating the discovery of drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. The collaboration brings together the respective teams' expertise in drug discovery using human-derived cells, high-throughput biology and chemistry, and machine learning-based therapeutic design to identify potential PD drugs. Together, they will focus on the identification of drug candidates that rescue the PD phenotype through the development of disease-linked, clinically- translatable assays and biomarkers through multiple molecular, biochemical, and cellular methods.

This approach will integrate and leverage OrganoTherapeutic's complex, patient-derived, 3D-organoid disease models derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and Vyant Bio's iPSC expertise and its AnalytiXTM machine learning technology.