Introducing the
PangomerTM Chemistry Platform

A diverse class of therapeutic agents uniquely suited to target toxic intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) involved in the propagation of multiple diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, neurodegeneration and cancers.

How It Works

IDPs are unstructured proteins, lacking the stable binding pockets needed for small molecule therapeutics, making them traditionally undruggable targets. Examples are: Islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), in the case of Type 2 Diabetes; alpha-synuclein, in the case of Parkinson’s Disease; and Myc, in the case of several tumors. During disease progression, IDPs miss-assemble and become toxic to cells.

Pangolin Therapeutics uses a combination of molecular modeling, biophysics, synthetic organic chemistry and other tools of drug discovery to produce Pangomers selectively designed to interfere with a specific toxic IDP and halt disease progression.

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Pangomers are Amazing Molecules

  • Features of peptide mimetics and small synthetic organics
  • Chemically tunable folding dynamics
  • Engage targets selectively, remodeling or dissociating them
  • Water Soluble
  • Membrane Penetrating
  • Stable
  • Safe

Pangolin Therapeutics’ Market Potential

IDPs comprise over one-third of the human proteome. Pangolin has the potential to build a rich pipeline of products in high medical need areas.

While today the focus is on Type 2 Diabetes, where there is an ever growing market and need for agents with new mechanisms of action, programs in neurodegeneration are underway.

Pangolin is about:

  • First-in-class drugs with the potential for disease modification or cure
  • Multiple assets ripe for collaboration and licensing
9500000
in NIH, state and private funding has been invested in the Pangomer Platform.
Contact us today to learn about investment opportunities.

$9,500,000

in NIH, state and private funding has been invested in the Pangomer Platform.

Contact us today to learn about investment opportunities.
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Meet the Leadership

Pangolin Therapeutics is led by an experienced team that understands the business of science.

Enrique Alvarez Sotomayor

Enrique Alvarez Sotomayor, DMV, MA

Co-Founder, Senior VP Research and Development

  • 25-year Biotech & Pharma Pre-Clinical Expert
Susan Froshauer

Susan Froshauer, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

  • 30-year Biotech & Pharma Drug Discovery Scientist & Business Executive
Andrew Miranker

Andrew Miranker, PhD

Co-Founder, Scientific Advisory Board Chair

  • 25-year Computational Design, Biophysics & Biochemistry Leader
  • Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University

Pangolin Therapeutics is supported by an accomplished Scientific Advisory Board led by Dr. Miranker:

Peter Farina, PhD

  • Expertise: Organic chemistry, pharmaceutical R&D; 28 years of experience
  • Senior Vice President of Development, Boehringer Ingelheim NA

Carolyn Fredericks, MD

  • Expertise: Imaging, neurodegenerative diseases
  • Assistant Professor, Department Neurology, clinician, Yale School of Medicine

Andrew Hamilton, PhD, FRS

  • Expertise: Protein mimetic chemistry
  • Professor of Chemistry and President, New York University

Richard Kibbey, MD/PhD

  • Expertise: Islet biology, Type 2 Diabetes, clinician
  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology & Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University

Liz Rhoades, PhD

  • Expertise: Biophysical chemistry of disordered proteins; 16+ years in Parkinson’s and TBI
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania