Corporate Profile for ProQuest Pharmaceuticals Inc., dated Oct. 5, 2001.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Oct. 5, 2001
Company Name: ProQuest Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Address: 1321 Wakarusa Drive, Suite 2103
Lawrence, Kan. 66049
Main Telephone
Number: 785/865-1585
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.proquestpharm.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Osborne Wong
Chief Financial
Officer: Paul Borchardt
Investor Relations
Contact: Osborne Wong
Business number: 785/865-1585
Public Relations
Contact: Osborne Wong
Business number: 785/865-1585
Industry: Pharmaceutical Development
Company description: ProQuest ProQuest Company is a well-known Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company specializing in educational microfilm and electronic publishing. History Eugene Power founded the company as University Microfilms in 1938, preserving works from the British Museum on microfilm. Pharmaceuticals Inc., founded in 1997, is a privately held research- and development-stage company in the business of discovering new medicines based on the application of novel prodrug prodrug /pro·drug/ (-drug) a compound that, on administration, must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming an active pharmacological agent; a precursor of a drug. chemistry. The company's primary prodrug technology is derived de·rive v. de·rived, de·riv·ing, de·rives v.tr. 1. To obtain or receive from a source. 2. from broad-based broad-based Of or relating to an index or average that provides a good representation of the overall market. The S&P 500 and NYSE Composite are generally regarded as broad-based stock indexes, while the popular Dow Jones Industrial Average is biased , functional group-oriented inventions created at the University of Kansas The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. The main campus resides atop Mount Oread. . Located in Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Union stronghold where Quantrill’s Confederate band killed more than 150 people (1863). [Am. Hist.: EB, VIII: 338] See : Massacre , ProQuest Pharmaceuticals was formed by a group of pharmaceutical scientists at the University of Kansas. At this time, the company conducts prodrug research and preclincal development through contracts with the Center for Drug Delivery Research at the University of Kansas and various independent contract research organizations and research institutes. |
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