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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.
Tris Pharma, Inc. is one of the top five privately-owned specialty pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. with a focus on the development of pharmaceutical science and technology-based products. Specifically, we are engaged in research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of both branded products and specialty generic products. We have more than a dozen solid and liquid products in the U.S. market based on our numerous NDAs and ANDAs and a rich and growing portfolio of more than 30 U.S. granted patents. Our commercialization success is driven by internal resources for our pediatric products and by licensing of our non-pediatric products to other companies. Our mission is to understand the science of developing drug products with unique attributes, bring to market products that add value to our patients and customers, and provide a benefit to our company, employees and society at large.
Pervasis Therapeutics Inc is a Cambridge, MA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Sorrento is an oncology company developing new treatments for cancer and associated pain. Sorrento recently announced that NantPharma acquired the rights to Cynviloq™, which completed a successful TRIBECA study. Sorrento is also developing resiniferatoxin (RTX), a non-opiate TRPV1 agonist currently in a Phase 1/2 study at the NIH to treat terminal cancer patients suffering from intractable pain. In December 2014, Sorrento and NantWorks formed a global joint venture, now called Nantibody, to focus on immunotherapies for cancer. Also in December 2014, Sorrento and Conkwest, Inc., a privately-held immuno-oncology company developing proprietary Neukoplast,® a Natural Killer (NK) cell-line based therapy, entered into an agreement to jointly develop CAR.TNK™ (Chimeric Antigen Receptor Tumor-attacking Neukoplast) immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. In March 2015, Sorrento entered into a global collaboration with NantCell, a NantWorks company, to discover and develop immunotherapies against tumor neo-epitopes.
Tripos, L.P. is a Saint Louis, MO-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.