| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Sarah Yuan |
Chief Technical Operations Officer | Profile |
Martha Rook |
Chief Technical Operations Officer | Profile |
Susan Drapeau |
Vice President and Head of Device and Delivery Engineering | Profile |
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.
iCyt Mission Technology is a Champaign, IL-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Abbott Diabetes Care is a Alameda, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Aligos Therapeutics is discovering and developing new classes of compounds that interact directly with disease causing molecules. These approaches are targeting viral nucleic acids and their encoded proteins, as well as oncogenes and their resultant proteins. The company is also pursuing novel therapeutic agents aimed at activation of the immune system to resolve diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality.
Rapid Micro Biosystems accelerates the detection of microbial contamination in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, and personal care products. The company`s Growth Direct™ Platform—the first and only growth-based platform to fully automate traditional microbial testing—detects contamination more quickly, delivering compelling economic benefits while improving quality control processes. The Growth Direct platform replaces slow, error-prone, manual processes, allowing manufacturers to accelerate timelines, maximize capacity, and reduce operational risk and downtime, all while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity. Rapid Micro Biosystems is dedicated to providing groundbreaking technology and products to support biomanufacturing companies in their mission to deliver the highest possible quality products for improved patient outcomes. Rapid Micro Biosystems is headquartered and has U.S. manufacturing in Lowell, Massachusetts, and global locations in Germany and the Netherlands.