Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) and Insightec, a global healthcare company dedicated to using focused ultrasound to transform patient care, today announced the launch of a five-year strategic collaboration to provide Charles River’s clients access to a comprehensive global service and technology platform for the application of focused ultrasound (FUS) for drug discovery and preclinical development of therapeutics in neuroscience. Insightec’s novel low-frequency ultrasound platform non-invasively disrupts the blood brain barrier, enabling drugs to be delivered to targeted brain areas. The procedure has generated positive clinical evidence across several neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and oncology indications, and holds promise for increasing efficacy of neurological drugs, to impact better health and outcomes for patients in the future.

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