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Drug polymers pact is formed

January 30, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 5

Avantium Technologies and Warwick Effect Polymers have formed a joint venture to develop WEP's PolyPEG technology for pharmaceutical compounds. They say PolyPEG enhances therapeutic products such as peptides, monoclonal antibodies, and recombinant proteins by increasing their bioavailability. The comb-shaped PolyPEG polymers feature polyethylene glycol teeth on a methacrylic backbone; they come in a variety of molecular weights and chain lengths and with different conjugating end groups.

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