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Arisaph
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an emerging drug discovery and
design biopharmaceutical company located in
Boston, Massachusetts, an internationally
recognized center of biotechnology. The company utilizes
proprietary drug discovery platforms to develop differentiated
drugs that are highly potent and act on select targets for
the treatment of a variety of diseases. Such
drugs are expected to produce improvements in safety, efficacy
and tolerability. Arisaph
currently has seven drug discovery programs to develop therapies
for cancer, cardiovascular disorders and diabetes.
Arisaph has successfully applied its proprietary
specificity profiling and retro-inverso chiral chemistry
technology platforms to synthesize several promising lead
drug candidates, including a DPP IV inhibitor for type II
diabetes and reverse D-4F, an orally active apo A-I mimetic
peptide for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Additionally,
the Company has designed and synthesized promising leads
for two targets of HDL ("good") cholesterol modulation
and for a validated cancer target.
Through a license agreement with
Tufts University,
Arisaph has exclusive worldwide rights to several important
issued patents in the diabetes area and to several pending
patent applications covering the Company’s drug discovery
platforms for use in developing therapies to treat several
diseases. |