Patrick Kleyn

Ligon Discovery's primary technology platform, Small-Molecule Microarrays (SMMs), fundamentally transforms drug discovery by bringing the power of microarrays to target screening. SMMs, developed at Harvard University and the Broad Institute, use a proprietary surface chemistry to attach unmodified chemical collections to a solid surface, enabling massively-parallel screening against protein targets of any function. The scale and scope of SMMs permit a paradigmatic change in drug discovery strategy as entire protein families, molecular pathways, and even genome-wide target sets can be screened in parallel to rapidly identify small molecules with optimal characteristics for drug development. Ligon is applying SMM technology to challenging, novel targets aimed at discovery of first-in-class drugs for oncology and other selected diseases. Ligon Discovery's SMM platform is available for drug discovery collaborations.

Part of Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, Gemini Genomics Plc is a British company that provides clinical genomics services. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. The company was founded by Michael Edward Fitzgerald, Paul James Kelly.

The Broad Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of research and development in biomedicals to cure infectious disease. Its scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics, genome regulation, cellular circuity and epigenomics, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. The company was founded by Eric S. Lander, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.