COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
ALT BioScience LLC
Leslie Herzog, lherzog@altbioscience.com, 859/388-9445
www.altbioscience.com
Founded in 1997, ALT BioScience is a privately held company located in Lexington, Kentucky. We are a specialty bioscience company that discovers, develops, and commercializes diagnostic and biomedical technologies focused on oral-systemic health and neurodegenerative diseases. Our foundation, nucleotide photo affinity labeling, is a process for photo modification of antibodies for basic protein research that serves nearly 300 researchers worldwide. Our mission is to be a leading Kentucky-based bioscience company using innovative research and technology to commercialize diagnostic insights and related healthcare products that address unmet medical needs for our global communities.
Biological Prospects LLC
Patrick Lawless, lawless@biologicalprospects.com, 859/494-5317
www.biologicalprospects.com
Biological Propsects LLC was founded in January 2007 by Dr. Patrick Lawless. Biological Prospects is a manufacturer of plant-based nutraceuticals and for the livestock, poultry, and pet healthcare industries. Our nutraceuticals are manufactured with the highest quality ingredients (USDA certified-organic herbs and ethanol) available and are standardized based on the concentration of active ingredient(s), thus ensuring consistent product efficacy. We formulate our nutraceuticals from traditional medicinal herbs, as well as previously unused or underutilized plant species. Our initial product line includes antimicrobials, immune system enhancers, anti-inflammatories, insecticides, and vermicides.
CarboLex Inc.
234 McCarty Court, Lexington, KY 40508-2428
859/257-9488
www.carbolex.com
Enhances a high-yield process for production of nanotubes, and develops post-synthesis treatments to alter chemical and physical properties and remove impurities. Works with industry to develop applications including lightweight, structural composites. Based on the research of Peter Eklund, formerly in physics and astronomy.
Outrider Technologies LLC
A215 ASTeCC Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0286
859/218-6502
www.outriderorganics.com
Outrider Technologies was formed in 2005 and specializes in the manufacture and marketing of soluble organic acene-based semiconductors. These organic electronic materials have proven useful in low-end high-volume switching applications, as well as photovoltaic applications, and offer large economic advantages associated with manufacturing, while also combating long-term device stability issues. As the field expands, Outrider is also conducting target-directed research into solving specific commercialization issues. This work is based on the research of the company’s founder, John Anthony, UK Department of Chemistry.
Scout Diagnostics
A346 ASTeCC Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0286
John Beran, jeberan@scoutdiagnostics.com, 502/767-1020
www.scoutdiagnostics.com
Scout Diagnostics was founded in 2006 to develop and market a new early diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease. The testing kit will detect Alzheimer’s at an early stage with greater sensitivity and specificity than is available using current techniques. It will identify certain protein complexes in cerebral spinal fluid which serve as biomarkers to detect Alzherimer's prior to clinical diagnosis. This work is based on research by Mark Lovell and Bert Lynn in the UK Department of Chemistry and UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Dr. Lovell also holds a joint appointment in the UK College of Medicine. Dr Lynn also serves as director of the UK Mass Spectrometry Center. Scout Diagnostics was founded by John Beran, now CEO, Lovell and Lynn.
SenseOmics
www.senseomics.com