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- Address:
- 6166 Nancy Ridge Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
- Phone:
- (858) 453-7200
- Website:
- http://www.arenapharm.com
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- Company Information:
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Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., is located at San Diego, CA and is a biopharmaceutical company developing a broad pipeline of compounds that act on G protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs.
Our goal is to discover, develop and commercialize novel, orally available drugs that address major unmet medical needs by targeting known and novel GPCRs. Our integrated drug discovery platform allows us to determine GPCR function, tissue and cell distribution, and relation to disease. We focus on four therapeutic areas: metabolic, central nervous system (or CNS), cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. We believe our technologies and integrated discovery and development capabilities will allow us to continue to build our pipeline of unique and selective product candidates.
GPCRs are categorized as 'known' because their naturally occurring, or native, ligands have been identified. Scientists have used molecular cloning in combination with the sequencing of the human genome to identify both additional receptor subtypes of known GPCRs as well as novel GPCRs. These novel GPCRs are categorized as 'orphan' GPCRs because their native ligands have not been identified. Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., believes orphan GPCRs offer promise for the development of novel GPCR-based therapeutics, and, therefore, are a major focus of our discovery research.
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