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Bio Focus - Nomura 600p share price target

March 2002

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In a stockmarket dazzled by very little at the moment, a company with its main business providing chemistry and biology outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry, does not immediately catch theeye. But BioFocus (300p), established as recently as 1997 by four scientists from the Wellcome research facilities in Beckenham, looks attractive at the current price. Until last year, thecompany's main business was the provision of fee-based combinatorialchemistry services (compound design and synthesis for specifictargets) to support new drug discovery and development of compounds atthe pre-clinical stage. A drug discovery process relies ondeveloping an assay (a diagnostic test that mimics the disease) andthen usin ...

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