Zapaq Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The founders of Zapaq Inc. have a straightforward objective: to develop compounds that inhibit aspartic proteases. The goal is hardly surprising, given that one of the company's founders, Jordan Tang, PhD, of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation was the first scientist to determine the structure of an aspartic protease and explore its basic mechanisms.
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