W. Scott Willett

Promedior, Inc. is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, which engages in the development of targeted therapeutics to treat fibrotic diseases. Its proprietary therapeutic platform is based upon Pentraxin-2, an endogenous human protein that plays an important role in regulating the response to fibrosis. The company was founded by Gomer H. Richard, Lawrence M. Kauvar, and Darrell Pilling in April 2006 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

The Group's principal activity is to develop proprietary drugs, focusing primarily on therapeutic proteins. Its technologies to develop proprietary versions of protein drugs with proven safety and efficacy and to improve the therapeutic profiles of proteins being developed. Its proprietary drug development portfolio currently consists of two therapeutic protein candidates.GlycoPEG-EPO (NE-180) is a long-acting version of erythropoietin (EPO) produced in insect cells. EPO is prescribed to stimulate production of red blood cells, and it gives treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia and anemia associated with chronic renal failure. Its second proprietary protein, GlycoPEG-GCSF, is a long-acting version of granulocyte colony stimulating factor G-CSF and it is prescribed to stimulate production of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell). Its trademarks are NEOSE, GlycoPEGylation and GlycoConjugation. It operates predominantly in the domestic market.