ABOUT MOLECULAR KINETICS, INC.

              Molecular Kinetics, Inc. is a biotechnology company incorporated in the State of Washington twenty one years ago.  The company was previously the North American continent agent for a niche market instrument line of rapid kinetics instrumentation. 

Three years ago, we added bioinformatics/proteonomics into our product mix.  In this venture, we are the exclusive product and research service provider based on the bioinformatic science of Dr. A. Keith Dunker and his collaborators (all formerly at  Washington State University).  Dr. Dunker and his collaborators have become known as pioneers in the field of  protein disorder analysis using bioinformatics.  In this venture, we aspire to be the “One stop shop for all disordered protein analysis, research and applications”.  So far, we have managed to obtain multiple research-alliance contracts with entities like Amgen, NIH sponsored Structural Genomic Centers and anesthesiology researcher.  In addition, we have managed to win 4 phase I SBIR grants in less than two years from NIH in cancer and general medicine applications.  For more information, please go to our web site PONDR.COM.

In August of 2003, our company moved to Indianapolis, following Dr. Dunker’s move to Indiana University Medical School as director of The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.  We continue our close collaboration with Drs. Dunker and Romero.  In March 2004, we were awarded matching funds from Indiana’s 21st Century Fund for three of our SBIR grants. 

Our company now holds a portfolio of intellectual properties relating to disordered protein analysis applications.  These applications are powerful tools which will aim to drastically reduce costs in processes of drug target selection, drug discovery, and genomic research.  Our primary emphasis is on cancer related fields, with secondary emphasis on anesthesiology and structural genomics.   Since last year, we completed or nearly completed the developments of  ten software products and three laboratory analysis systems.  The protein research areas include: solubility, crystallizability, phosphorylation, cancer database, and molecular recognition elements.