Pan Pacific Pharmaceuticals Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Xiangmin Cui's vision, in co-founding Pan Pacific Pharmaceuticals two years ago, was to combine his personal knowledge of traditional Chinese medicines with the scientific training he received both in China and at Stanford University. Pan Pacific's lead compound for rheumatoid arthritis has been successfully cloned and expressed, and shown to be identical in structure and activity to a naturally occurring molecule with potency against the disease.
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