About ENDECE
Our vision is to deliver safe, cost-effective drugs that are efficacious and add years to the quality of life for those fighting life-threatening disease with a particular focus on cancer.
ENDECE was founded on the belief that identifying molecular switches that alter normal cell growth from a proliferative to a non-proliferative state could be leveraged for creating new drugs that treat cancers without regard for the mutations that caused the cancer.
Our innovative approach to the discovery and development of small molecule drugs has produced a family of compounds that control key molecular switches and alter normal cell growth from a proliferative to a non-proliferative state.
Founded: June 2006
Location: 1001 West Glen Oaks Lane
Suite 105 B
Mequon, Wisconsin 53092
Funding: Private Funding, Commitments Extend Through Phase I Human Clinical Trials
The ENDECE business model is lead by an experienced management team and supported by respected advisors and consultants in the scientific and business communities as well as a network of world-class research organizations. This collaborative business model allows us to work more efficiently and create data driven decisions that result in clear and relatively short development paths.
Management:
James Yarger, PhD; Chief Executive Officer
Steven Nye, PhD; Director of Scientific Programs
Steve Weitman, MD; Chief Medical Officer
Jean Yarger; Chief Administrative Officer
Matthew Leithold; Executive Director of Finance
Scientific Advisory Board:
Victor Vogel, MD;
National Vice President of Research, American Cancer Society
Daniel Von Hoff, MD;
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona;
Senior Investigator and Director of Translational Drug Development (TD2) for
Phoenix-based
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and head of its Pancreatic
Cancer Research Program;
Chief Scientific Officer for US Oncology.
Consultants:
Merrill Egorin, MD;
Professor in the departments of medicine and pharmacology at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Jeffrey Evans, PhD;
President, Rondaxe Pharma
James Cederna,
President, Cederna International
Network:
The ENDECE collaborative model taps into a proven network of key scientists and other advisors covering all areas of the newest technologies whenever they are needed, allowing us to accelerate the discovery and preclinical process. Contracting this work to the very best groups in the world and performing critical research at two different locations in parallel has allowed ENDECE to keep errors to a minimum and reach key decisions more quickly. These relationships include:
1. Austin Chemical (Chicago) - sources raw materials around the world
www.austinchemical.com
2. Formosa Laboratories, Inc. (Taiwan) - will manufacture large scale batches of NDC-1308 under FDA regulations
www.formosalab.com
3. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (Scottsdale) - a non-profit biomedical research institute in Scottsdale which performs human cancer studies in mouse models and microarray studies for gene expression related to REINHART\2878688_3 Page 9 mechanisms of action (Dr. Mike Bittner at TGen invented the microarray technology)
www.tgen.org
4. Ricerca Biosciences (Cleveland) - synthesized the very first samples of ENDECE's novel anti-cancer compounds and performed the first analysis of anti-cancer capabilities of the compounds against human cancers in-vitro
www.ricerca.com
5. Dr. Pam Hershberger, Associate Professor at the Hillman Cancer Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh - performs receptor binding studies, etc. with ENDECE compounds
www.upmcccancercenters.com
6. The College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee (Memphis) - co-invented the novel nanoparticle formulation for NDC-1308 with ENDECE
www.utem.edu/pharmacy
7. UT Health Science Center (San Antonio) - contract research investigator for in-vitro studies
www.uthscsa.edu
8. Syncom (The Netherlands) - laboratory-scale API manufacturer which developed several of the manufacturing processes that were transferred to Formosa Laboratories for scale-up manufacturing
www.syncom.nl/hr/index.html
9. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (Milwaukee) - legal counsel to ENDECE
www.reinhartlaw.com
