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Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Our Opinion

Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they conduct Pre-clinical studies of their drugs on animals to assess a product’s safety profile.

Supporting Evidence:

The following report cites that the company’s drug CTP-354 has been tested on animals for conducting preclinical studies.

“CTP-354 is a deuterated analog of a compound discovered by Merck & Co. referred to as L-838417. L-838417 was found in preclinical animal studies to possess certain therapeutic benefits of the benzodiazepine class of drugs, but without their predominantly sedative effect.” (Page 10) Read the full document.

Company Description

Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which discovers and develops novel small molecule drugs for renal disease, CNS disorders, inflammation and hematologic disorders. It also creates novel medicines that address commercially important needs by applying its deuterated chemical entity platform to compounds with well-characterized pharmacological activity. The company was founded by Richard H. Aldrich, Roger D. Tung and Christoph H. Westphal on April 12, 2006 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA. [Source: MarketWatch]

Company Website: http://www.concertpharma.com