Rick S. Kent

Vascular Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and commercializes therapeutics for the treatment of diabetics. It provides new treatment options to individuals living with diabetic complications such as nephropathy. The company was founded by David R. Clemmons and Laura Maile in 2005 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Esanex, Inc. manufactures and develops drugs for cancer treatment. Its products include orally active Hsp90 inhibitors. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops oral inhibitors for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer. It develops small molecule CYP17 lyase-selective inhibitors to treat resistant hormonally-dependent breast and prostate cancers. The firm’s product under pipeline is VT-464, a dual mechanism lyase-selective CYP17 inhibitor and androgen receptor (AR) antagonist that disrupts the validated biochemical pathways required for prostate cancer growth androgen biosynthesis and AR transcriptional signaling. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Innocrin Pharmaceuticals Holdings LLC discovers and develops oral inhibitors for the treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC). The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Aldagen, Inc. develops and produces pharmaceutical products. It focuses on developing product candidates to address cardiovascular disease. The firm develops ALD-301 for the treatment of critical limb ischemia; ALD-201 for the treatment of ischemic heart failure; and ALD-401 for the post-acute treatment of ischemic stroke. The company also supplies ALDHbr cells for use in investigator-sponsored clinical studies. Aldagen was founded by Andrew E. Balber, Michael Sherman Colvin, Clay Smith and Nelson Chao in March 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operated as a biopharmaceutical company. It discovered and developed pharmaceutical products to treat diseases that results from deficiencies in the body's natural mechanisms of mucosal hydration. The company was founded by Kendall Harden, Richard C. Boucher, Andre L. Lamotte, H. Jefferson Leighton and Terrance G. McGuire and was headquartered in Whitehouse Station, NJ.

Serenex, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops drugs for tumors and cancers of the blood and bone marrow. Its products include drugs for chemotherapy treatments as well as inhibitor compounds. Serenex was founded by George Young and Timothy Haystead in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Ardent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops drugs for pain, urinary incontinence, premature ejaculation, depression and cardio protection. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.