Prous Science is an international health science publishing company, established in 1958 and headquartered in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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Its head offices are located in Barcelona and it has subsidiaries in Philadelphia (USA), Buenos Aires (Argentina

Argentina

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) and Tokyo (Japan

Japan

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). Prous employs 500 people worldwide, which include prestigious international opinion leaders in diverse disciplines of medical sciences.

Its research is based on the use of datamining, statistical analysis and chemoinformatic techniques, a recent and innovative international concept registered under the name "druginformatics". These techniques are complemented by laboratory methods from combinatorial chemistry, molecular biology and functional genomics.