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7 Graphics Drive
Ewing, NJ 08628 USA
phone:609-637-9700
fax:609-637-0126
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OTC |
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| www.redpointbio.com
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Biotech Specialty Pharma |
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| Summary Description |
| Healthier foods and beverages to treat diabetes, obesity |
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| Management |
| F. Raymond Salemme, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer; Scott M. Horvitz, Chief Financial Officer; R. Kyle Palmer, Ph.D., Senior Director, Discovery Research; Robert Daines, Ph.D.Director, Chemistry; S. Paul Lee, Ph.D., Director, Molecular Biology |
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| Keywords |
| sweetness enhancer, biotechnology, chemosensory, modality, obesity |
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| Description |
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Redpoint Bio is leveraging recent discoveries in the molecular biology of taste to discover and develop novel taste modulators for the food and beverage industries. They apply modern tools of biotechnology to find new ways to make food and beverages taste better and be more healthful. The company's understanding of the biology of taste and its relationship to metabolic processes, satiety, and diabetes impact both the development of healthier foods and, potentially, new approaches to the treatment of diabetes and obesity. |
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Redpoint Bio intends to combine its bitter and aversive taste blockers with a range of drugs to create novel liquid medicines with improved taste, as well as innovative products with improved drug delivery characteristics. Redpoint Bio also has active programs focused on the discovery of novel taste enhancers. Taste is both the leading reason for product acceptance and the major factor limiting the acceptance of more nutritious food products. The taste senses that people find pleasant include the sweet sensation, the savory (or umami) sensation, and the salt sensation. By creating taste enhancers that stimulate or amplify these effects, Redpoint seeks to fulfill its mission of making food and beverage products better tasting and healthier, while reducing the levels of sugar or sodium (salt or MSG) required.
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| Technology / Differentiation |
| Redpoint's biochemically-based bitter and aversive taste blockers are designed to be effective when used in minute amounts relative to the quantities of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in a given dosage form. This enables novel drug dosage forms that address many unmet medical needs and have increased efficacy and safety. |
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Redpoint Bio forms alliances with leading food, beverage, ingredient & flavor, pharmaceutical, OTC and oral care companies. With these partners, collaborates to discover, formulate and market innovative compounds that enhance the taste of leading products in these industry sectors
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| Robcor Properties, Inc. acquired Redpoint Bio Corporation through a reverse merger transaction in March 2007. Redpoint Bio forms alliances with leading food, beverage, ingredient & flavor, pharmaceutical, OTC and oral care companies. With these partners, collaborates to discover, formulate and market innovative compounds that enhance the taste of leading products in these industry sectors. |
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