Vilya Announces New Publication in Science Validating Foundational Approach to Design of Novel Chemically Diverse Macrocycles
SEATTLE, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VILYA, Inc. (Vilya), a biotechnology company creating a new class of medicines that precisely targets disease biology, today announced the publication of a new study in Science that validates the company’s foundational drug discovery approach. The company’s platform, which is based on an exclusive license to the technology utilized in the study, leverages advanced computational approaches to design macrocycles with atomic-level accuracy that enable optimized drug-like properties.
- “Macrocycles are promising drug-like compounds, but incorporating diverse chemistries has historically been very difficult.
- “Our platform, which leverages our proprietary computational design, rapidly generates both chemically and structurally diverse drug-like macrocyclic compounds.
- They then synthesized a focused subset of 18 macrocycles and found the majority aligned closely to their predicted models, thereby validating the computational design approach.
- “The publication in Science of the core capabilities of this technology, which we have licensed and integrated into our own proprietary platform, provides further validation of our approach.