Adjuvance Technologies is a privately held biopharmaceutical company organized around enabling important and fundamental breakthroughs in vaccine adjuvant design and manufacturing. Adjuvants are the critical components are added to many vaccines to improve the immune response. Adjuvance Technologies has developed the capability to synthesize saponin adjuvants such as QS-21, a critical component of the AS01 adjuvant developed by GSK. In addition, principals of the firm have synthesized a novel analogue, TQL1055, with improved attributes compared to QS-21.