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Whitepaper:Advancing Drug Discovery through DNA Encoded Library Technology

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OpenDEL®: Making DNA-Encoded Library Screening Broadly Available

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Advancing Innovative Drug Discovery

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Drug discovery, it's in our DNA.

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Enable Innovative Drug Discovery with DEL, FBDD and SBDD

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Capabilities & Services

Enabling Innovative Drug Discovery with Advanced Technologies

  • DNA-encoded Library
    DNA-encoded Library
  • Fragment-based Drug Discovery
    FBDD/SBDD
  • Chemistry
    Chemistry
  • Bioscience
    Bioscience
  • Computational Sciences and Informatics
    Computational Sciences and Informatics
  • Structural Biology
    Structural Biology
  • Pre-clinical Studies
    Pre-clinical Studies
  • Clinical Development
    Clinical Development

Therapeutic Areas

Integrated One-stop Drug Discovery Platform   Accelerating Project with High Efficiency

  • Oncology and Immuno-oncology
    Oncology and Immuno-oncology
  • Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
    Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
  • Ophthalmology
    Ophthalmology
  • Infectious Diseases
    Infectious Diseases
  • Metabolic Diseases
    Metabolic Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
    Cardiovascular Diseases
HitGen Inc. is a rapidly developing biotech company
The discovery and development of novel medicines and agrochemicals
>1 Trillion

DNA encoded compounds

>6,000

novel drug/target complex structures for FBDD/SBDD

About Us

HitGen Inc. is a biotech company headquartered in Chengdu, China, with subsidiaries in Cambridge, UK and Houston, USA. It became a publicly listed company in Shanghai Stock Exchange in April 2020 (ticker code 688222.SH).  HitGen has established a drug discovery research platform for small molecules and nucleic acid drug centered on the design, synthesis and screening of DNA encoded chemical libraries (DELs), fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) and structure-based drug design (SBDD) technologies. HitGen's DELs currently contains more than 1 trillion novel, diverse, drug-like small molecules and macrocyclic compounds. These compounds are members of DELs synthesized from many thousands of distinct chemical scaffolds, designed with tractable chemistry, and have yielded proven results for the discovery of small molecule leads against precedented and unprecedented classes of biological targets.

 

Through its acquisition of Cambridge UK based Vernalis R&D Ltd before the end of 2020, a leader in FBDD/SBDD, HitGen now has a research team of over 500 scientists and offers a full set of research capabilities from recombinant protein expression and purification, structural biology, assay development, screening, DEL synthesis, nucleic acid and small molecule chemical synthesis, computational and medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, cell biology, in vivo pharmacology, DMPK, CMC, etc., to enable drug discovery research from target gene to IND filing.

 

HitGen RNA therapeutics R&D platform includes key capabilities such as bioinformatics, organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry,RNA biology, molecular biology and cell biology, translational research and clinical research. The platform not only provides high quality services to support internal and external RNA therapeutics R&D projects, but also carries out siRNA sequence design, siRNA parallel synthesis and chemical modification/conjugation, mRNA and protein knock-down assays in both engineered cell lines and primary cell lines, stability test, off-target assessment, bio-distribution and other relate in vitro/in vivo assays for activity and toxicity study, etc. HitGen has also established its own pipelines in early stages to discover novel RNA therapeutics, aiming for providing new treatment for unmet medical needs in oncology and immunology.

 

HitGen operates a flexible business model, ranging from a single capability-based fee for services (FFS,e.g., protein expression and purification, structural biology, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, nucleic and organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biophysics, PK, PD, etc.), DEL screening, DEL design, synthesis and characterization, integrated drug discovery projects, risk sharing projects, collaborative ventures to program out-licensing. HitGen has approximately 20 in-house drug discovery programs at different stages of research & development. At present, 4 programs have obtained IND approvals by NMPA and entered into clinical trials. HitGen is collaborating with pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical companies, foundations and research institutes in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia to enable the discovery and development of novel medicines and agrochemicals.


For more information, please call +86-28-85197385, +1-508-840-9646 or visit www.hitgen.com.

For media inquiries: media@hitgen.com

For investor inquiries: investors@hitgen.com  

For business development: bd@hitgen.com  


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Collaboration Partners

Latest News

  • 18 May 2023

    HitGen Announces Drug Discovery Research Agreement with ARase Therapeutics

    CHENGDU, China, May 18, 2023 – Shanghai Stock Exchange listed company HitGen Inc. ("HitGen", SSE: 688222.SH) announced today that it has entered into a research agreement with ARase Therapeutics, Inc. ("ARase"), a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapeutics targeting ADP-ribose hydrolases, novel targets that function in therapeutically proven cancer stress pathways. HitGen will utilize its DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology platform, centered around the design, synthesis and screening of DELs, to identify novel inhibitors of ARase’s validated oncology targets. HitGen will also support ARase programs from hit-to-lead chemistry to pre-clinical development.
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  • 28 April 2023

    Infographic | HitGen FY2022 Annual Report

    Infographic | HitGen FY2022 Annual Report
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  • 12 December 2022

    HitGen Announces Research Agreement with Nitrase Therapeutics Focused on DNA-Encoded Library Based Drug Discovery

    CHENGDU, China, December 12, 2022 – Shanghai Stock Exchange listed company HitGen Inc. (“HitGen”, SSE: 688222.SH) today announced that it has entered into a research agreement with Nitrase Therapeutics, Inc. (“Nitrase”), a biopharmaceutical company deploying its NITROME platform to build a pipeline of therapies targeting nitrases, which is a new class of enzymes discovered by Nitrase that are involved in a broad variety of diseases.
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