Company Profile

Pharmos Corporation (AKA: Pharmatec Inc)
Profile last edited on: 5/3/19      CAGE:       UEI:

Business Identifier: Therapeutics for pain, inflammation, and immune disorders
Year Founded
1982
First Award
1987
Latest Award
1997
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

99 Wood Avenue South Suite 302
Iselin, NJ 08830
   (732) 452-9556
   info@pharmos.com
   www.pharmoscorp.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 06
County: Middlesx

Public Profile

Formerly known as Pharmatec, Pharmos Corporation was a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics for the central and peripheral nervous systems, and ophthalmologic, cardiovascular and inflammation-related indications. On October 1992, the Company merged with Pharmos Corporation, a privately held New York corporation (“Old Pharmos”), and in 1992 acquired all of the outstanding shares of Xenon Vision, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation. Prior to the Merger, Old Pharmos was a biopharmaceutical company with proprietary drug delivery and formulation technologies, one of which involved an initial application of ophthalmic drugs, and another of which involved research pharmaceuticals with neuroprotective properties being developed for applications such as stroke and head trauma. Prior to the Merger, the Company was a publicly-held company primarily engaged in the development and testing of a chemical delivery system that had been shown in animal studies to permit the passage of drugs across the blood-brain barrier. Finally delisted from NASDAQ in 2014 due to too small number of people holding stco,, on the way the firm had many senior players in Executive positions, made several acqusitions and in a raft of transactions, raised a great deal of mo

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
1-4
Revenue Range
Less than .5M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Publicly Traded
Stock Info
OTC : PARS.pk
IP Holdings
20-24

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
1997 1 NIH $100,000
Project Title: Prodrugs And Aqueous Formulations Of Dexanabinol
1993 2 NIH $549,228
Project Title: Parenteral formulation for carbamazepine
1993 2 NIH $521,346
Project Title: Nonsurfactant Formulation for Inducing Agents
1990 2 NIH $550,000
Project Title: Design and synthesis of brain specific antiherpetic agents
1990 1 NIH $50,000
Project Title: Improved therapy for depression

Key People / Management

  Haim Aviv -- Chairman & CEO

  S Colin Neill -- President

  Gad Riesenfeld -- President

  Marcus E Brewster

  Kerry S Estes

  Emil Pop

  Krishnaswamy S Raghaven

  Alan L Rubino -- President & COO

  Vasudevan Venkatraghavan

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