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Published Date: Sept. 11, 1998
Company Name: Xencor
Address: 199 S. Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, Calif. 91101
Main Telephone
Number: 626/564-2667
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) xencor.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D.
Investor Relations
Contact: Carolyn Siegal
Business number: 626/564-2667, ext. 19
Public Relations
Contact: Carolyn Siegal
Business number: 626/564-2667, ext. 19
Industry: Biotechnology
Company description: Xencor is a start-up biotechnology company founded in August 1997 that is commercializing Protein Design Automation (PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). ), a research platform for de novo protein design. PDA builds on recent groundbreaking advances in computer capabilities and computational chemistry methods to design proteins and peptide variants as well as completely unique amino acid sequences that preserve target functions while modifying selected physiochemical physiochemical /phys·io·chem·i·cal/ (fiz?e-o-kem´ik-il) pertaining to both physiology and chemistry. physiochemical pertaining to both physiology and chemistry. properties. Xencor's dedicated research facilities in Pasadena include a molecular biology laboratory and a state-of-the-art computational lab with a parallel supercomputer from Silicon Graphics/Cray Research capable of more than 14 billion operations per second. Xencor has ongoing collaborations with investigators at City of Hope National Medical Center City of Hope is one of 39 NCI-designated Cancer Centers and is located in the city of Duarte, California. City of Hope comprises an ambulatory and in-patient cancer treatment center as well as a biomedical research facility known as the Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.) and the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. (Caltech). Bassil Dahiyat Ph.D. is president, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of Xencor, as well as a co-inventor of the PDA technology. To date, Dahiyat raised $5 million in equity capital financing from Stafford Investments LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control of Chicago; entered into an option agreement with CalTech to license the PDA technology; and established company facilities and staffing. Dahiyat holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech and B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. . CONTACT: Xencor |
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