This is old, just a follow up, aptamers
Martinsried, Germany, December 05, 2003 - Bio-M AG announced that Archemix Corp., a US-based biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery and development of aptamer therapeutics, has made an additional investment in the Bio-M portfolio company NascaCell IP GmbH (Tutzing, Germany). Archemix Corp. has already participated in a financing round earlier this year. The proceeds will be used to strengthen NascaCell's market position in aptamer-based target validation and drug discovery. Financial terms were not disclosed.
For more information about NascaCell IP please see www.nascacell.com.
Nascacell and DPI nascacell.com
The only other trivia for the day is that Holtzman is a director of Archemix archemix.com
Regarding Holtzman, here is some old stuff from the google cache, sorry, the PPT is gone. 72.14.203.104
There are a few fun tidbits that probably reflect surplus hubris as infinity started up and was selling itself to investors. But I will paste this and ask what is "broad FTO"?
Infiniplex Chemistry
Novel classes of pharmaceutically relevant structures with broad FTO
Designed to be produced, optimized, and scaled rapidly
Pursue only highly validated targets
Open world of well-validated but “non-druggable” targets with Infiniplex chemistry
Use chemical genetic screening to let underlying disease biology find truly validated targets and establish utility for compound classes
InfiNet Knowledge Platform
Web-services based XML architecture Implementation of meta-data models for knowledge management IP asset development and audit control |