Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: NAVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of precision diagnostics and radio-pharmaceutical agents. Doing business until January 2012 as Neoprobe Corporation, the company is organized around two areas of emphasis - Diagnostic Substances and Therapeutic Development Programs. The company develops Manocept platform to target the CD206 mannose receptor expressed on activated macrophages; and NAV4694, a fluorine-18 labeled positron emission tomography imaging agent for use as an aid in the imaging and evaluation of patients with signs or symptoms of Alzheimers disease and mild cognitive impairment. It is also developing NAV5001, an iodine-123 labeled single photon emission computed tomography imaging agent that is used as an aid in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders with potential use as a diagnostic aid in dementia; diagnostic substances, including technetium 99m tilmanocept and other diagnostic applications of its Manocept platform; and therapeutic development programs, such as therapeutic applications of its Manocept platform, as well as various development programs.
