Abzena
Company

Last deal

$65M

Amount

Private Equity

Stage

31.03.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$139.44M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Abzena provides technologies and services for the development and manufacture of biopharmaceutical products.

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founded date

01.01.2002

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Private Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

The company offers a range of services and technologies, including immunogenicity assessment, contract process development and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, site-specific conjugation technologies for antibody drug conjugate development, and contract chemistry and bioconjugation business focused on ADCs.. Abzena is the leading end-to-end integrated CDMO for Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) and complex biologic molecules, providing solutions in integrated early discovery to mid-phase biotherapeutic and bioconjugation drug development and manufacturing.
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People

Founders
1
Jonathan Goldman
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Jonathan Goldman joined Aptuit as Chief Executive Officer in December of 2013. Prior to joining Aptuit, he held several executive positions at ICON Plc, a leading global contract research organization. His tenure at ICON included 3 years as global head of Business Development, as well as senior roles in operations and in medical imaging. He formerly served for 7 years as Chief Medical Officer of Point Biomedical, a development-stage biopharmaceutical company responsible for discovering and developing microsphere-based pharmaceuticals. He currently maintains a Faculty appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the division of Cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Jonathan Goldman Jonathan Goldman Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Goldman joined Aptuit as Chief Executive Officer in December of 2013. Prior to joining Aptuit, he held several executive positions at ICON Plc, a leading global contract research organization. His tenure at ICON included 3 years as global head of Business Development, as well as senior roles in operations and in medical imaging. He formerly served for 7 years as Chief Medical Officer of Point Biomedical, a development-stage biopharmaceutical company responsible for discovering and developing microsphere-based pharmaceuticals. He currently maintains a Faculty appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the division of Cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Jonathan has also recently been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Jonathan has BSc (1986), MBBS (1989) and MD (1995) degrees from the University of London, in addition to Executive MBA qualifications from Columbia University in New York, and the University of California at Berkeley.

current job

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organization founded

1

Jonathan Goldman

Employee Profiles
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Jim Kennamer

Jim Kennamer

SVP & Site Head- North Carolina

Kevin Lundquist

Kevin Lundquist

CFO

Daniel Giroux

Daniel Giroux

Vice President, Development

Seung-Yong Choi

Director of chemistry

Alex Lazar

Senior Director Analytical Method Development and QC

Philip Payne

Chief commercial officer

Shahram Katousian

Senior director, head of biologics manufacturing and msat

Sanjeevani Ghone

Senior vice president of chemistry operations and site head

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