Unigen Pharmaceuticals & University of Panama Form Collaboration

Unigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Broomfield, CO, has entered into a plant collection agreement with the University of Panama’s School of Pharmacy and Center for Pharmacognostic Research on Panamanian Flora (Ciflorpan). Ciflorpan and Unigen will work together to collect plants that have documented ethnomedicinal uses by native tribes in order to identify lead compounds for the development of pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and functional food products. Unigen will apply natural product chemistry and high throughput screening to fractionate the Panamanian plant extracts, which will be further tested in its laboratory using appropriate biological, biochemical, genomic and proteomic models.