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EMD Biosciences, Inc. is a San Diego, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Avista Pharma Solutions is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) formed through the recent, strategic carve-outs of the CMC business of Array BioPharma, Inc. and contract services business of Scynexis, Inc. These two operations, along with the microbiology and analytical testing capabilities of the parent company Accuratus, create a combined business encompassing over 170,000 square feet of laboratory and manufacturing space which is capable of providing pharmaceutical clients with a broad suite of scientifically-differentiated services. These services are provided from a team with demonstrated expertise in process chemistry, analytical chemistry, manufacturing of novel drugs and specialized animal health services.
Bayhill Therapeutics is a Palo Alto, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
BrainScope is a Bethesda, MD-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Protagonist Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing the discovery and development of target oral peptides as well differentiated alternatives to antibodies, and also as new chemical entities (NCEs) against those targets and life threatening diseases for which suitable small molecule and/or biologic options are not available. Peptides typically suffer from limitations of poor proteolytic stability and therefore find scarce therapeutic utility that is largely limited to ‘injectable drugs’. Protagonist’s technology platform is aimed at overcoming these restrictions and expanding the scope of peptide therapeutics to address unmet needs. Specific emphasis is placed on identifying ‘orally stable’ scaffolds and/or engineering oral stability characteristics onto them. The platform has been optimized over the years and involves synergistic integration of rational drug design, diversity oriented computational tools, phage display libraries, recombinant peptide expression, ex vivo oral stability methods, and peptide/medicinal chemistry techniques. This activity has led to the identification of ‘privileged scaffolds’ with favorable oral stability characteristics. Furthermore, the technology platform is well suited both for de novo discovery against a target and optimization around a given chemical starting point.