Company Profile

Valigen US Inc
Profile last edited on: 12/4/2007      CAGE: -----      UEI: ----------

Business Identifier: Combining genomics and chimeroplasty to achieve seed and crop improvements without introducing exogenous genetic material into the seed.
Year Founded
1994
First Award
2001
Latest Award
2001
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

350 Carter Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
   (215) 504-4444
   N/A
   www.valigen.net
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 12
County: Mercer

Public Profile

ValiGen US was the US component of a private firms was created in April 2000 through the merger of Kimeragen Inc. of Newtown, PA and Valigene, a Paris-based genomics company. Kimeragen had been founded in 1994 to commercialize chimeraplasty, a gene correction technology designed to develop new treatments for genetic diseases and to identify new drug candidates. The company's functional genomics activities were based in Paris; research on biotech applications in plants and industrial products and bioengineered food products was conducted is San Diego. ValiGen also had offices in Berlin, Germany, where the company is involved in developing population databases, which patients could use for genetic health-risk assessments and drug companies can use to identify potential targets for therapies to treat genetic diseases. Valigen's CEO was Douglas Watson, the former head of Novartis; th scientific advisory boared that included J. Craig Venter and Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith of Celera Genomics. In October 2001, Watson resigned; ValiGen closed its Princeton, New Jersey, laboratory, the site of nearly all its chimeraplasty research. The company was undergoing bankruptcy reorganization in France; the license for chimeraplasty was placed with a small company in San Diego, California, to pursue the technology in plants.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
1-4
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
5-9

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2001 1 Army $118,173
Project Title: Novel Gene Repair Technology to Generate Serum Carboxylesterase Deficient Mice

Key People / Management

  Douglas Watson -- President

  Bryan A Roecklein

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