ChromaDex Corp., a natural products company that provides proprietary ingredients and science-based solutions to cosmetic and other industries, announced today it has entered into a joint collaboration agreement with Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio).

The mission? To screen ChromaDex’s natural product libraries against certain molecular targets and phenotypic assays with the intent of identifying high value, possibly patentable natural products for specific therapeutic indications.

In addition to providing the natural product libraries, ChromaDex will supply the natural product chemistry expertise to develop any identified candidates into commercial opportunities.

After completing the screening process, LNBio will continue performing assays in enzymes, cells and organisms related to the discovery of chemical entities that are the object of this collaboration.

Kleber Gomes Franchini, Director of LNBio, commented:

“If successful, this collaboration could lead to rapid commercialization of novel natural products for food, beverage, cosmetic or pharmaceutical applications.”

Frank Jaksch, Jr., founder and CEO of ChromaDex, added:

“The ChromaDex catalog offers thousands of very unique phytochemical compounds primarily isolated from botanicals…we are very excited to start this collaboration with LNBio, as this program will allow ChromaDex to extract value from the natural products library we have been developing over the past 15 years”