07 May Madison’s Nimble Therapeutics collabs with Roche on COVID-19 diagnostics
Madison-based Nimble Therapeutics, a fairly new company that was spun out from Switzerland-based F. Hoffmann-La Roche, is collaborating with Roche Diagnostics to discover and develop novel peptide-based molecules for diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nimble Therapeutics is developing a chemical synthesis technology for drug development. The company is being led by CEO Jigar Patel, who led the development of the chemical synthesis technology.