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Preventing proteins in medications from clumping - Biotech's Future
Protein Dynamics Solutions LLC, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, is developing a technology to address protein aggregation, a key bottleneck in the development of new protein therapeutics.
Belinda Pastrana, company CEO, explains the technology in this video. Proteins have a tendency to clump together. These clumps can compromise a medication’s efficacy and so exploring ways to keep proteins from clumping is an important research area.
Pastrana and her team have developed a technique that they say determines how a protein clumps, enabling researchers to modify the protein and improve ultimately drug performance.
Learn more about Protein Dynamics Solution and the NSF SBIR program. Watch other NSF-funded biotech stories.
Date originally posted: Nov. 24, 2015
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