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Jupiter Bioscience Inc, USA
Overview
The company is incorporated in USA in the state of Virginia. The company has a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in the State of Maryland which is one of the manufacturing hubs for the pharmaceutical and the biotech sector in the US.
Rationale of the facility
US is the largest market for the peptide industry currently and large number of new drug discovery companies, research institutions and medical schools working in peptides are located in USA. The company it was necessary for the company to have a manufacturing and marketing presence in this geography for growing its business.
Advantages to the customer
Jupiter Bioscience Inc will manufacture custom peptides, clicnical peptides and generic peptide APIs. The sourcing of the peptide building blocks will be done from the parent company in India. Thus it will offer cost advantages to customers leveraging the cost advantages of manufacturing in India.
Technology Focus
This company is dedicated for manufacturing peptides by the solid phase synthesis.
Business Segments
The business segments of this subsidiary are:
- Generic peptide APIs by solid phase synthesis
- APIs for peptide in clinical trials by solid phase.
- Custom synthesis of peptides and peptidomimetics
- Peptide Libraries and microarrays
The generic peptide APIs and clinical peptide APIs are expected to be offered from October 2009 from this facility.
Operations
The facility is currently managed by Mr. Pius Baur who has got more than 25 years experience in peptide synthesis. He is assisted by well trained staff in operations.
Details of the facility
The manufacturing facility comprises an area of 9000 Square feet and has the following sections:
The manufacturing facility comprises following sections:
- Production
- Quality Control & Quality Assurance
- Instrumentation
- Services
- Clean room area for sterile filling and lyophilization.