Amarantus BioScience Holdings today said that it has signed a deal to provide biomarker test services to Anavex Life Sciences for studies of that firm’s Alzheimer’s drug candidate.

Under the deal, Amarantus will use its LymPro Test to evaluate the pharmacodynamic effect of Anavex 2-73 and Anavex Plus on the expression of the biomarker CD69 in specific sub-populations of peripheral blood lymphocytes. Read the story at GenomeWeb