BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops oral small-molecule and injectable protein therapeutics to treat rare diseases. The company markets peramivir injection, an intravenous neuraminidase inhibitor for the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza under the RAPIVAB, RAPIACTA, and PERAMIFLU names; and ORLADEYO, an oral serine protease inhibitor to treat hereditary angioedema. It is also developing BCX17725, a protein therapeutic for netherton syndrome which is in phase 1; Avoralstat, an ocular plasma kallikrein inhibitor for diabetic macular edema that is in preclinical phase; and BCX10013, an oral Factor D inhibitor for complement-mediated diseases, as well as developing Oral C5 Inhibitor and Oral C2 Inhibitor. The company has collaborations and in-license relationships with the Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Green Cross Corporation; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and The University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Industrial Research, Ltd. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
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Lantheus Holdings, Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes diagnostic and therapeutic products that assist clinicians in diagnosis and treatment of heart, cancer, and other diseases worldwide. The company offers DEFINITY, an injectable ultrasound enhancing agent used in echocardiography exams; TechneLite, a technetium generator for nuclear medicine procedures; Xenon-133, a radiopharmaceutical gas to assess pulmonary function; Neurolite, an injectable imaging agent to identify the area within the brain where blood flow has been blocked or reduced due to stroke; Cardiolite, an injectable Tc-99m-labeled imaging agent to assess blood flow to the muscle of the heart; and PYLARIFY, an F 18-labelled PSMA-targeted PET imaging agent used for imaging of PSMA positive-lesions in men with prostate cancer. It also provides Automated Bone Scan Index that calculates the disease burden of prostate cancer by detecting and classifying bone scan tracer uptakes as metastatic or benign lesions using an artificial neural network; RELISTOR for opioid-induced constipation; and aPROMISE, an artificial intelligence medical device software; PYLARIFY AI, an medical device software to perform quantitative assessment of PSMA PET/CT images in prostate cancer; and flurpiridaz used to assess blood flow to the heart. In addition, it develops 1095, a PSMA-targeted iodine-131-labeled small molecule; PNT2002, a radiopharmaceutical therapy to treat mCRPC; PNT2003, an SSTR therapy to patients with SSTR-positive neuroendocrine tumors; MK-6240, a F 18-labeled PET imaging agent for Tau tangles in Alzheimer's disease; LNTH-2401, a novel radiodiagnostic targeting the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor; LNTH-2402; LNTH-2403; LNTH-2404; and LNTH-1363S, an fibroblast activation protein, alpha, copper-64 labeled PET imaging agent. It has collaboration agreements with GE Healthcare; POINT; Regeneron; and Ratio Therapeutics LLC. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
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