COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Alkymos Inc.
859/257-4855
Robert Yokel, ryokel@email.uky.edu
The mission of Alkymos is to design, synthesize, evaluate and manufacture chelators and chelator-based devices for laboratory, industrial, animal and human applications.
AllTranz
A040 ASTeCC, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0286
859/323-6192
Audra Stinchcomb, audra@alltranz.com
www.alltranz.com
Founded in 2004 by Audra Stinchcomb, pharmacy, the company specializes in transdermal delivery methods of drugs, contracts with pharmaceutical companies and consumer product companies to perform the R&D associated with skin-related toxicity testing and transdermal/topical product development.
Artemetrx
859/233-2006
Matthew Wiley, matt.wiley@artemetrx.com
http://www.artemetrx.com
Artemetrx brings a unique set of data analytic tools and professional services to the challenge of identifying and realizing cost containment opportunities, and we do this in a manner that either does not affect or actually improves the quality of healthcare. Artemetrx strives to give Human Resource Managers, CFO’s and decision-makers an alternative to inordinate cost-shifting or unnecessary benefit reductions by leveraging raw claims data in a way that identifies cost-savings opportunities that are “healthy.” Through our secure, web-based, data analysis tool and monthly, interactive meetings with our clients, Artemetrx provides decision-makers with a comprehensive, real-time actionable perspective of healthcare utilization, outcomes and expenditures. Our unique web-based application, cost containment analysis, ongoing claims surveillance, and customized intervention programs provide our clients with a cost-effective solution that can assist in meeting the challenges of rising healthcare costs.
Emagin Therapeutics
A044 ASTeCC Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0286
www.emagintherapeutics.com
Emagin Therapeutics is a drug design and discovery company dedicated to the development of novel agents to treat nervous system disorders and disease. A focus of the company is on developing new and improved drug entities for treatment of acute, chronic and cancer-related pain. In addition, Emagin will provide assessment and development of novel formulations and delivery systems for newly discovered and previously FDA-approved drugs for pain management. This work is based on the research of Joseph Holtman (anesthesiology/pain medicine) and Peter Crooks (pharmaceutical sciences).
Four Tigers LLC
859/509-0170
Paige Shumate Short, SPShortUSA@msn.com
www.four-tigers.com
Four Tigers, founded by Paige Shumate Short and researchers from the University of Kentucky, is developing a pipeline of blackberry-based health products that will be marketed as cosmetics, dietary supplements, and foods. Initial products include a topical vanishing blackberry cream, a blackberry oral capsule targeted to the intestines and colon, and a blackberry chewing gum. Four Tigers is also developing an exciting portfolio of medical products harnessing the potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties of blackberries. Utilizing blackberries grown at WindStone Farms, researchers at the University of Kentucky have shown that an extract of the blackberries is able to inhibit the growth of human cancer cells in the laboratory. Studies are under way to explore new medical applications, including studies in animals to demonstrate that blackberry extracts can prevent or treat cancer and inflammatory diseases.
InfraReDx
Rob Lodder
www.infraredx.com
Insys Therapeutics
www.insystherapeutics.com
Intranasal Therapeutics
www.intranasal.com
Intranasal Therapeutics is a research, development and manufacturing company focused on nasal delivery technology, formulations and devices to administer medications to the systemic blood circulation. ITI conducts preclinical, human clinical and regulatory development of nasally delivered drugs of its own design and co-development partners.
NanoMed Pharmaceuticals®
7107 Elm Valley Drive, Room B1210
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009
269/488-8525
www.nanomedpharm.com
NanoMed Pharmaceuticals® is an early-stage specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing improved therapeutic and diagnostic products to treat or detect cancer and other serious diseases. The company’s core technology, Nanotemplate Engineering, is a nanoparticle manufacturing technology used to formulate small molecules, peptides, proteins, plasmid DNA, and diagnostic agents. NanoMed was founded in 2000 by UK researchers Russell J. Mumper and Michael Jay.
Prescient Medical Inc.
2005 South Easton Road Suite #204, Doylestown, PA 18901
215/933-1150
Toll Free: 866/376-0500
www.prescientmedical.com
Prescient Medical is developing a molecular computing system with fiber-optic networking technology to identify vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques before they can cause heart attack or stroke. Available screening and diagnostic methods are insufficient to identify the victims before the event occurs. Modern hyperspectral imaging is able to collect exceptional amounts of information at astonishing speed. Reducing these data from physical fields to high-level, useful information is difficult. Integrated computational imaging, a concept utilized in molecular computing of factor scores, is a process in which image information is spectrally encoded as it is sensed to produce information directly for digital processors. Both spatial and spectral features of samples can be encoded inside a disposable catheter, enabling low-cost analyses in real time. Based on the research of Robert Lodder, pharmacy.
Yaupon Therapeutics Inc.
www.yaupontherapeutics.com
Yaupon Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company based on research by Linda Dwoskin and Peter Crooks (pharmaceutical sciences), develops small molecule pharmaceuticals licensed from academic laboratories. The researchers have had great success with lobeline, an alkaloid from American Indian tobacco, which in animal models blocks the desire for methamphetamine. In November 2005, Yaupon was named Life Sciences Start-up Company of the Year at the Eastern Technology Council’s Annual Enterprise Awards ceremony.