About Arecor

Arecor Limited was formed by the founders of Insense Limited a company which was set by Unilever plc (history...).

Arecor is based in Bedfordshire, UK, which is about 90 miles north of London. It is situated in one of Unilever plc’s principal research centers and has access to many of the analytical facilities of Unilever Research (location).

Arecor is built upon the extensive experience of Unilever Research and the skill of Arecor's founders in the manipulation of proteins for medical and industrial applications (management team).

Protein stabilisation

Arecor is working to address the stability issues of proprietary proteins and vaccines.

Technologies

Arestat's core technology Arestat™, offers the potential to significantly widen the application and presentation of therapeutic proteins and vaccines.

Arestat-T™ provides heat/shelf life stabilisation
Arestat-R™ provides stabilisation in ionising radiation such as typically used in sterilisation.

Licensing

The Company’s core technologies are available for licensing around specific therapeutic proteins, vaccines and diagnostics (partnering).

Applications

Arecor is providing solutions to meet the needs of the expanding market for therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Applications include Differentiated biosimilars; Diagnostic kits; Pre-clinical drug candidates and Stockpiled vaccines.

Portfolio of proteins

Arecor is developing its own portfolio of patient-ready therapeutic proteins. This can be stored at room temperature without modifying the structure of the protein or needing to incorporate chemicals that might limit its use.

Last updated: 14 June 2008