Media coverage

By Anette Breind, BioWorld Insight For Academia or Industry In the private space, Charlottesville, Va.-based Biovista Inc…Biovista has a positioning program that uses a bioinformatics approach to “develop all reasonable opportunities” for a drug, Persidis said, by tracking “without bias,” all biological effects of a compound…But Biovista is also developing its own in-house pipeline of existing … Read More

Biovista featured in FirstWorld’s latest report, “Drug Combinations: New Rules, New Opportunities” For years, drug therapy has been built on that basic equation. Yet as genomic biology sheds light on the astonishing intricacy of disease pathology, it is clear that drugs that combine several compounds must be developed in response.   According to Biovista president … Read More

Article in GEN on Biovista’s participation in the Eurpean “p-medicine” project. Drug repositioning specialist Biovista’s European affiliate has been awarded a $0.5 million grant to fund its participation in the European Commission’s €13.3 million (roughly $19.7 million), four-year p-medicine project focused on developing new tools and virtual physiological human (VPH) models to speed the development … Read More

Biotech companies hope to turn the practice of finding novel uses for existing compounds into big business. Andreas and Aris Persidis love to tackle big problems. As graduate students in the 1980s, the two brothers—a naval architect and a biochemist, respectively—would spend long nights knocking around ideas for how to engineer a better propeller or … Read More

Seeking Alpha’s Jason Chew writes about Biovista’s Drug Repositioning approach: Following up my previous piece on drug repositioning by Orexigen with its diet pill, Contrave, I spoke with Dr. Aris Persidis, President and co-founder of Biovista- a leading company in the drug repositioning business. Drug repositioning is the discovery and development of novel indications for … Read More