EMD Biosciences Licenses Protein Lounge Signal Transduction Pathways for Use in Their Marketing.

SAN DIEGO, CA, May 31, 2004 – Protein Lounge, a leader is systems biology databases and bioinformatics tools, today announced that EMD Biosciences has agreed to take a non-exculsive license of some of Protein Lounge’s signal transduction pathway images.

Under the terms of the agreement EMD Biosciences will have a non-exculsive license for one-year to use 13 of Protein Lounge’s signal transduction pathway images. EMD will use these pathways in their web-based and printed marketing. EMD believes that the addition of these signal transduction pathways to their marketing will attract additional attention to their reagents made against the proteins of those pathways.

Protein Lounge has licensed the following pathways to EMD:
1. Alzheimer's Disease Pathway
2. GSK3 Signaling
3. Caspase Cascade
4. Akt Signaling
5. Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway
6. p53 Signaling
7. DNA Repair Mechanisms
8. Cytokine network
9. MAPK Family Pathway
10. GPCR Pathway
11. NFKB Family Pathway
12. VEGF Pathway
13. Insulin Pathway

Protein Lounge has hundreds of additional signal transduction and metabolic pathways which are also available for license.

EMD Overview: www.emdbiosciences.com
EMD Biociences, Inc. is an Affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and is comprised of the five brands, Calbiochem, Clinafla, Novabiochem, Novagen and Oncogene Research Products. In the Asia-Pacific region our products are marketed under the Merck name.

Protein Lounge Overview: www.proteinlounge.com
Protein Lounge is a leader in the field of system biology. We have developed many interactive web-based databases and software to help the life-scientists understand the complexity of systems biology. Systems biology efforts focus on understanding cellular networks, protein interactions involved in cell signaling, mechanisms of cell survival and apoptosis leading to development or identification of drug candidates against a variety of diseases. In the post-genomic era, one of the major concerns for life-science researchers is the organization of gene/protein data. Protein Lounge has met this concern by organizing all necessary data about genes/proteins into one portal.

Contact:
Protein Lounge
Samik Singh, 858-792-2471
ssingh@proteinlounge.com

EMD Biosciences
Gretchen Sanders, 858 450 5500
gretchen.sanders@emdbiosciences.com