05
May
2008
The pre-event planning material for the BIO 2008 conference is pouring in fast and furious. (Do you plan to attend? Would you like to meet? Please contact me to arrange arubenstein@rnaventures.com). So whilst perusing the Product Focus Zone publication I was incredibly excited to see BaroFold (Boulder) highlighted in the Protein Therapeutics chapter. Jeff Cleland, [...]
22
Oct
2007
BaroFold continues to march, achieving milestone after milestone. Congratulations are in order now for striking a process development and cGMP manufacturing agreement for their lead compound BaroFeron™ (interferon beta-1b) with Avecia Biologics. Avecia will incorporate BaroFold’s PreEMT™ hydrostatic pressure technology which enables improved, safer, proprietary protein therapeutics, providing product life-cycle extensions and creating new protein [...]
21
Aug
2007
26
Jun
2005
Among the most common difficulties bio-pharma is faced with when producing recombinant therapeutic proteins is that of protein clumping or aggregation. Such protein aggregation may result in adverse events in patients, limited effectiveness, and a reduction in production yields, at times by as much as 50%, proving to be an incredible cost center. BaroFold, Inc. [...]