Brief Description
Lumiphore develops proprietary bi-functional chelators for biomedical applications in drug discovery research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These include biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes (which provide a unique combination of sensitivity, reliability, flexibility and high throughput) and radioisotope chelators for attachment to carrier molecules used in cancer therapeutics and radio-imaging diagnostics that can be paired as a companion diagnostics in radio-pharmaceutical therapeutics.
Inventors
Seth Cohen, Stephane Petoud, Kenneth Raymond, Jide Xu
Company Founders
Kenneth Raymond (UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy; Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry and former Chair of the Chemistry Department), Stéphane Petoud (UC Berkeley, B.S., Chemistry, '92; Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, '97)
Timeline
- 2001. Company founded