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25 Mar 2011

Sanofi Signs Diabetes Research Pact

The three-year research collaboration will investigate the role of the osteoblast-secreted peptide, osteocalcin, in diabetes management.

Sanofi-Aventis has reached a research collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center for the development of new diabetes treatments. The three-year research collaboration with Dr. Gerard Karsenty’s lab will investigate the role of the osteoblast-secreted peptide, osteocalcin, in diabetes management.
 
Under the agreement, Sanofi will sponsor research in Dr. Karsenty’s lab and has an option to license and develop existing patents as well as any results from the research.

"We have spent more than a decade uncovering the biology of osteocalcin,” said Dr. Karsenty. “We are delighted to have Sanofi-aventis as a co

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