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The following represents companies that were started with CSHL assistance

Company

Founded

Business Interest

CSHL Technology

 Notes

Protein Databases Inc.

1981

Image analysis software

 2D electrophoresis (Garrell)

Acquired by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

   Huntington Station, NY

 

And hardware

 

 

Oncogene Science

1983

Drug discovery and screening

oncogene technology (Wigler)

Now OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc.

   Melville, NY

 

 

 

 

ICOS Corp.

1990

Drug discovery for

Cloning by complementation

 

   Bothell, WA

 

Inflammatory diseases

(Wigler)

 

PathoGenesis Corp.

1991

Drug discovery against

Representational difference

Acquired by Chiron Corp.

   Seattle, WA

 

Infectious agents

 Analysis--pathogens (Wigler)

 

Geron Corp.

1992

Telomerase related therapy

Telomerase technologies

 

   Menlo Park, CA

 

For cancer, geriatrics

(Greider)

 

Mitotix, Inc.

1992

Diagnostics and therapy for

Various gene targets (Beach)

Acquired by GPC Biotech

   Waltham, MA

 

Cancer, infectious diseases

 

 

Pharmacopeia, Inc.

1993

High throughput drug screening

Tagged combinatorial libraries

 

   Princeton, NJ

 

 

(Wigler)

 

Amplicon Corp.

1994

Genomics, cancer diagnostics

Representational difference

Acquired by Tularik Inc.

   Huntington Station, NY

 

And therapy

Analysis--cancer (Wigler)

 

Charybdis Corp.

1995

Drug discovery relating to

Various PTP technologies (Tonks)

Now CEPTYR, Inc.

   Bothell, WA

 

phosphatases

 

 

BioSupply Net Inc.

1996

Biological research material

CSHL Press's database

Acquired by SciQuest Inc.

   Research Triangle Park, NC

 

Sourcebook/website

 

 

Genomica Corp.

1996

Bioinformatics

Genome topographer (Marr)

Acquired by Exelixis, Inc

   Boulder, CO

 

 

 

 

deVGen

1997

Drug discovery

Apoptosis technologies

 

  Ghent, Belgium

 

 

(Hengartner)

 

Helicon Therapeutics, Inc.

1997

Drug discovery relating to

Learning & memory genes &

 

   Farmingdale, NY

 

Long term memory

 Drug screens (Tully/Yin )

 

Genetica

1998

Drug target discovery

Viral vectors (Hannon/Beach)

 

   Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

Orion Genomics LLC

1998

Plant genomics

Filtered shotgun sequencing

 

  St. Louis, MO

 

 

(McCombie/Martienssen)

 

Juventis, Inc.

2002

Stem cell regeneration

 

Now Arginox, Inc.

 Cold Spring Harbor, NY

 

Nitric-oxide inhibitors

 

 

bold face type denotes public companies

 

 

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