This would be a biosimilars company but it is private
Pfenex Inc. Establishes Reagent Protein Distribution Agreement With Cedarlane Corporation
Companies will cooperate in the sales and distribution to the Canadian and US research market of high value reagent proteins produced by Pfenex. Products will include vaccine carrier proteins and cell culture related growth factors.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfenex Inc. and Cedarlane today announced that they have entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement. Cedarlane will market and distribute high value reagent proteins produced by Pfenex to researchers in Canada and the United States. Among the products initially distributed will be vaccine carrier proteins such as CRM197 and Cholera Toxin B and cell culture related growth factors including G-CSF and Interferon beta 1-b. New products which are developed by Pfenex will be added to the Cedarlane catalogue upon launch.
"We are pleased to establish this distribution relationship with Cedarlane," stated Patrick K. Lucy, Vice President, Business Development at Pfenex Inc. "Leveraging the Pfenex Expression Technology™ platform, we are now producing and making available complex reagent proteins to meet the needs of the biotech R&D and clinical development community. As Pfenex grows its reagent proteins business, we welcome the opportunity to work with world class distributors such as Cedarlane to enable placing Pfenex products in the hands of life science researchers around the world."
"CEDARLANE is proud to add Pfenex Inc. products to its extensive portfolio," said John Course, CEDARLANE Vice President. "Canadian scientists have an even greater opportunity to consolidate their ordering from a long list of high-quality suppliers of scientific reagents." Key components of the CEDARLANE mission are to provide quality products, assure the highest in customer satisfaction and respond to the dynamic needs of every research community.
About Pfenex Inc.
Pfenex Inc. is a protein production company leveraging the unique and powerful Pfenex Expression Technology™ platform based on the microorganism, Pseudomonas fluorescens, for the production of research proteins, reagent proteins, biosimilars and innovator biopharmaceuticals. For more information please visit www.pfenex.com
About CEDARLANE
In business since 1957 and incorporated in 1975, CEDARLANE is a 100% Canadian Corporation and a leading supplier of research reagents in North America and worldwide. The company is ISO 9001 accredited and ISO 13485 certified.
