December 27, 2022 by Asia Meals Journal

The settlement goals to provide a dietary complement with pure extracts to be used in important enchancment of skeletal muscle mass and performance in people

CJ Meals and Diet Tech (CJ FNT), a newly fashioned enterprise unit of CJ CheilJedang, a South Korea-based world meals and diet firm, and Emmyon, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology start-up firm primarily based in Rochester, MN, USA, have signed an unique licensing settlement establishing a strategic partnership between the 2 organizations.

A signing ceremony and keynote speeches have been held on December sixth, 2022, at CJ CheilJedang’s world headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, attended by the CEOs and senior executives of each CJ CheilJedang and Emmyon to commemorate the event.   

The technical and industrial collaboration will consequence within the world launch of a number of nutraceutical and dietary complement merchandise that may inhibit muscle atrophy whereas enhancing power and endurance. Skeletal muscle atrophy, also referred to as muscle losing or sarcopenia within the aged, is a widespread and critical situation affecting tens of thousands and thousands of individuals worldwide and subsequently represents an unlimited unmet medical want.  It notably impacts older folks with arthritis, on mattress relaxation as a consequence of physique accidents resembling unintentional falls, and malnutrition by sicknesses resembling most cancers. Optimum muscle well being can also be essential in sports activities efficiency and lack of bodily train, the place dietary supplementation will be helpful.

The licenses handled Emmyon are protected by an in depth portfolio of unique patents within the USA, Europe, and different key jurisdictions, which might be leveraged by CJ FNT’s world industrial know-how and advertising power.

Emmyon Founder, CEO and President, Dr. Christopher Adams, a number one physician-scientist, expressed his nice enthusiasm for this landmark deal which might probably profit thousands and thousands of individuals within the U.S., and elsewhere. Dr. Adams is Professor of Drugs, Clinician Investigator, and Analysis Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Diet at Mayo Clinic. His analysis focuses on mechanisms and remedy of muscle atrophy and diabetes. His scientific observe focuses on caring for sufferers with diabetes and different endocrine problems.

Different key administration staff members at Emmyon embrace Scott Ebert, PhD, a extremely completed skeletal muscle biologist who’s an Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic, and John J. Talley, PhD, one of many world’s preeminent medicinal chemists. In 2015-2019 and 2021, Dr. Talley was named to The Drugs Maker Energy checklist, recognizing the world’s most influential folks in drug discovery and improvement.

Head of CJ FNT, Lance Choi, underlined his firm’s dedication to innovation, progress, and advertising excellence within the area of human diet. This has resulted in main investments in analysis and improvement, manufacturing capabilities, and an emphasis on forging key partnerships resembling that with Emmyon to convey new scientific discoveries in dietary science to market. This landmark deal marks the start of a serious push for the corporate into the sphere of muscle well being and metabolism with the objective of world market management on this class.

About CJ Meals and Diet Tech  

CJ Meals and Diet Know-how, a enterprise unit of CJ CheilJedang, is part of CJ Group, South Korea’s preeminent firm within the fields of Meals & Meals Service, Bio & Pharma, Leisure & Media, and Retail & Logistics.

CJ Meals and Diet Know-how is a number one provider of fermentation-based bio-products resembling an in depth line of ‘AMINATURE®’ amino acids for human diet at its multi-national manufacturing amenities worldwide.

About Emmyon, Inc.

Emmyon is a non-public biotechnology firm with a concentrate on optimum skeletal muscle well being. It investigates how getting old, sickness, and damage trigger muscle atrophy. It then makes use of that knowledge to find small molecules that enhance muscle power, mass, and metabolism. These small molecules are supposed to create new meals merchandise for muscle well being, whereas others are being developed as prescribed drugs for weight problems and sort 2 diabetes.

For extra data, go to: https://www.cjbio.web/   and www.emmyon.com