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BioInnovation Capital invests in the most promising life science companies in residence at premier co-working laboratory facilities where our partners are on-site every day. As the first investment platform to knit together a national network of co-working laboratories, we have a unique lens and an unparalleled position from which to invest. Our partners are located in: Cambridge, MA (BioLabs and LabCentral); Durham, North Carolina (BioLabs North Carolina); San Francisco, and San Diego, CA (BioLabs San Diego). Our perspective is characterized by superb access to key innovators in academia, as well as to the corporate partners who are likely eventual homes for our investments. The geographic nature of innovation hubs and our overlapping network of facilities and resources, supports the formation of stellar companies from the most powerful universities, research institutions, hospitals and corporations in our sector.
Abzena is a life science group with headquarters in the UK, and chemistry and manufacturing sites in the US. Abzena`s complimentary services and technologies in chemistry, biology and manufacturing, are applied to the selection, development and manufacture of better biopharmaceuticals. Abzena works with most of the top 20 biopharmaceutical companies and academic groups around the world, and has enabled many of them to progress products (ABZENA inside), through to clinical development. Abzena`s teams at the Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK, in San Diego, CA and Bristol, PA in the US are focused on developing better treatments for patients.
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.
CymaBay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on developing therapies to treat metabolic diseases with high unmet medical need or serious rare and orphan diseases. We are committed to developing breakthrough medicines that improve the lives of patients and their families. CymaBay was seeded with the assets from an earlier metabolic disease company in which more than $120M was invested to produce a robust pipeline.
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