PerkinElmer partners with French company

PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham said today it is teaming up with Cerep SA of France to provide custom drug-discovery services to life sciences companies in the business of developing new drugs.

PerkinElmer provides reagents and instruments to life sciences companies; it also makes products to help screen newborns for diseases.

Cerep is a provider of drug-candidate screening and profiling technologies.

The supply and co-marketing agreement between the two companies will give PerkinElmer customers direct access to Cerep's expertise while PerkinElmer will be able to extend its reach into "key drug discovery markets," the companies said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)