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Home » Regeneron launches new human genetics initiative

Regeneron launches new human genetics initiative

January 14, 2014
CenterWatch Staff

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a science-based biopharmaceutical company based in Tarrytown, N.Y., has launched a new human genetics initiative via a new wholly owned subsidiary, the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC).

The objective of the RGC is to expand the use of human genetics for defining disease targets and improving the drug development process. The RGC will pursue both large population-based efforts as well as family-based approaches.

Central to the work of the RGC will be a collaboration with the Geisinger Health System of Pennsylvania. A collaboration also is in place with the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH, and the RGC intends to develop relationships with other academic, government and integrated medical systems.

"Regeneron has always believed in the power of genetics to help shape our understanding of disease and to guide development of novel therapeutics. However, there have been major limitations that have prevented optimal utilization of human genetics at a large scale," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., chief scientific officer and president, Regeneron Laboratories.

Yancopoulos said, "Over the last year we have been building a world-class facility and top-notch team to carry out large-scale sequencing, and our Regeneron Genetics Center now is operational.  We also have started to engage in collaborations that we believe will enable the kinds of genetics discoveries that will lead to better patient care, insights into which patients might best respond to investigational treatments and leads for new disease targets to develop novel therapeutics.”

Andrew J. Murphy, Ph.D., senior vice president, research, Regeneron Laboratories, said, "One of the unique aspects of the Regeneron human genetics research effort is our ability to validate putative disease-gene associations using our proprietary VelociGene technology. Moreover, our VelocImmune technology already has proven itself ideal for developing novel therapeutics to disease targets defined using human genetics. The RGC is an important investment in large-scale genetic research that we believe represents a powerful integrated approach that we hope will go all the way from gene discoveries to novel therapeutics."

Over the last year, Regeneron has built a new facility and recruited key members of the RGC team, including John Overton, Ph.D., former associate director of the Yale Center for Genome Analysis, who will be leading the center's sequencing effort, and Jeffrey Reid, Ph.D., formerly assistant professor at the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, who will lead the informatics group. Aris Baras, M.D., director, R&D initiatives, who with other internal leaders helped launch the program, will be deputy head of the RGC.  Recruiting continues for a variety of specialized positions, including heads of our analytical and translational genetics efforts.

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