Service
- Customer driven FTE and FFS
- From idea to clinical candidate for clients :
- IP generation – Lead generation;
- Lead optimization – medicinal and process chemistry;
- Candidate selection – project management
- Advantages over CROs in China and India:
- Quick turn-around time;
- No communication barrier;
- Strong IP protection
Value Added Service
Value Added Service
- Total value from AIM Bio FTE contracts is competitive with that of foreign CROs
- Provided a key chiral intermediate in large scale based on chiral resolution; Solved a bottle-neck problem that internal group depended on asymmetric synthesis requiring laborious chromatography;
- Provided feedback to SAR and solutions to improve potency and pharmacokinetic properties.
Facilities
Facilities
- San Francisco bay area: short driving distance from SFO.
- Currently has a 5000 SQFT lab space with 9 chemical hoods.
- Expansion will add more hoods in the east bay.
Examples of Custom Synthesis
Examples of Custom Synthesis
- Focused on fee-for-service work for niche intermediates: no suppliers, or substantial lead times from the other CROs.
- Targets were entirely customer driven
- Quotes were comparable to those of foreign CROs
