Janssen Expanding Its Disease Interception Efforts

Through a series of research agreements, J&J arm is seeking to create new business models teaming a single internal expert with a host of external researchers in six priority therapeutic areas.

Since its inception in February 2015, Janssen R&D LLC's Disease Interception Accelerator (DIA) – a research initiative focused on prediction and preemption of disease – has signed 24 agreements. The firm highlighted the anniversary March 22 with the unveiling of two new ones to identify disease pathways associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and to identify biomarkers in gestational diabetes mellitus.

These latest agreements build on an initial arrangement with Washington University, unveiled last June, to identify the root causes of type 1 diabetes in hopes of developing interventional methods to halt disease progression ([A#14150612004])

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