{{Short description|German pharmaceutical company}} {{Infobox company |name = Jerini AG |logo = jerini 285 93.jpg |logo_alt = Jerini company logo |type = |foundation = Berlin, Germany (1994) |location = Berlin, Germany |key_people = {{ubl|{{nowrap|Jens Schneider-Mergener, CEO}}|Adi Hoess, Chief Commercial Officer|Jochen Knolle, Chief Scientific Officer, Head of R & D|Berndt Modig, Chief Financial Officer}} |products = icatibant |revenue = |operating_income = |slogan = |net_income = |num_employees = 139 (2006) |parent = |divisions = |subsid = |homepage = {{ubl|www.jerini.com}} |footnotes = }}
'''Jerini AG''' was a pharmaceutical company based in Berlin, Germany, which focused on the discovery and development of novel peptide-based drugs. Using a proprietary technology platform, Peptides-to-Drugs (P2D), Jerini pursued disease indications for which limited, inadequate, or no treatment options exist. As a result, Jerini established a drug pipeline composed of its own programs as well as others in collaboration with partners. Jerini's commercialization strategy was to market new drugs in niche indications independently and in larger indications with partners. Jerini was acquired by Shire plc in 2008.<ref>Finanzen.net: [https://archive.today/20120801014306/http://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/Jerini_erhaelt_von_der_FDA_Not_Approvable_Letter_fuer_Icatibant__Rueckschlag_713035 ''Jerini erhält von der FDA ein Not Approvable Letter''], 24. April 2008.</ref>
Jerini started operations in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-01-05 |title= |url=http://www.shire.com/shireplc/dlibrary/documents/AnnualReport2008.pdf |access-date=2022-09-16 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105052212/http://www.shire.com/shireplc/dlibrary/documents/AnnualReport2008.pdf |archive-date=5 January 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Jerini's subsidiaries Jerini US Inc. and JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, provider of peptides and peptide microarrays, were acquired by Theracode GmbH, Mainz in 2009.<ref>{{cite web | author=JPT Peptide Technologies | date=2008-05-07 | title=TheraCode GmbH acquires JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH - Press release | url=http://www.jpt.com/news/press_releases/single_view/article/theracode-gmbh-acquires-jpt-peptide-technologies-gmbh/ | accessdate=2012-03-19 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Jerini was financed with venture capital provided by TVM and HealthCap. It went public on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (JI4), and had raised a total of over 130 million Euro in public and private financing to date.{{citation needed|date=July 2008}}
==Firazyr (icatibant)== Jerini's lead compound Firazyr (icatibant), is an inhibitor of the action of the hormone bradykinin on its B2 receptor. This compound was in-licensed from Aventis in 2001. It has been approved for hereditary angioedema in all member states of the European Union in July 2008.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jerini AG |date=2008-07-15 |title=Jerini Receives European Commission Approval for Firazyr (Icatibant) in the Treatment of HAE - Press release |url=http://jerini.com/cms/en/05-news-events/05-01-corporate-news/05-01-07-newsarchive-2008/08-07-15_EU_Approval.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929040842/http://jerini.com/cms/en/05-news-events/05-01-corporate-news/05-01-07-newsarchive-2008/08-07-15_EU_Approval.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 29, 2018 |accessdate=2008-07-28 }}</ref> The drug was granted FDA approval on August 25, 2011.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.shire.com/shireplc/en/media/shirenews?id=520 |title=FDA Approves Shire's FIRAZYR (icatibant injection) for Acute Attacks of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) |publisher=Shire |accessdate=2011-08-28}}</ref>
== Peptides-to-Drugs (P2D) platform == Based on its P2D platform, Jerini established several in-house development programs, to address indications within the ophthalmology, oncology, and inflammatory therapeutic areas. The most advanced of these programs targeted age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in people over the age of 55 in developed countries. Jerini's compound (JSM 6427) has shown significant efficacy in combating disease progression in preclinical models.{{citation needed|date=July 2008}}
Jerini's proprietary Peptides-to-Drugs (P2D) technology was used to identify peptide drug lead structures and systematically transform them into peptidomimetic (injectable) and small-molecule (oral) drugs, depending on the indication. This enabled Jerini to develop novel drug candidates for diseases that were difficult to access using traditional drug discovery methods. The ability to produce both peptidomimetics and small molecule drugs as drug candidates has enabled the simultaneous development of drugs for acute and chronic treatments against the same target molecule (target).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-09-23 |title= |url=http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Redaktion/PDF/de/Broschueren/bioregio2006,property=pdf,bereich=bio,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf |access-date=2022-08-20 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923190512/http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Redaktion/PDF/de/Broschueren/bioregio2006,property=pdf,bereich=bio,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060826051440/http://www.jerini.com/ Official website] * [http://www.jpt.com JPT Peptide Technologies] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20180520031544/http://www.hae-network.info/ European HAE information portal]
Category:Pharmaceutical companies disestablished in 2008 Category:Manufacturing companies based in Berlin Category:Pharmaceutical companies of Germany Category:Pharmaceutical companies established in 1994 Category:Medical and health organisations based in Berlin Category:2008 mergers and acquisitions