CNS Refresh: Boehringer's New Approach To Tricky Neuropsychiatry Diseases

Boehringer Ingelheim is seeking partners with early-stage, novel approaches to neuropsychiatry disorders under its strategy of applying "fresh thinking" to diseases of the central nervous system with high unmet need.

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Boehringer believes advances in CNS scientific understanding mean pharma needs a new approach • Source: Shutterstock

In an exclusive interview with Scrip at the BIO-Europe partnering conference in Berlin, Nov. 6-8, Klaus Mendla, Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH's global head of business development and licensing, CNS, talks about the private German pharma's approach to neurology drug discovery and development.

Central nervous system (CNS) drug development has not seen a huge amount of success in recent years for prevalent diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. Due to the tough, high-risk, nature of therapeutic development for CNS conditions, many companies have stepped away from the space

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