Archive for 2009

Trana Discovery Completes $720,000 Series A Investment Round

Trana Discovery Completes $720,000 Series A Investment Round

Recent investment and future licensing deals leads to self-funded status

CARY, NC (December 21, 2009) – Trana Discovery, Inc., an infectious disease drug discovery technology company, today announced the completion of its Series A round of funding. To date, the company has raised $720,000 in angel funding to commercialize technology that helps to discover new drugs for the treatment ...

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Trana Discovery and Southern Research Institute Find Bioactive HIV Antiviral Compounds

Trana Discovery and Southern Research Institute Find Bioactive HIV Antiviral Compounds

NIAID contracts additional $700,000 to screen 300,000 more compounds for HIV inhibition

CARY, NC and BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 28, 2009)Trana Discovery, Inc., an infectious disease drug discovery technology company, and Southern Research Institute, a not-for-profit contract research organization conducting basic and applied preclinical drug research, today announced that ...

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Trana Discovery Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Taps Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Mike Ossi as Chairperson

Trana Discovery Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Taps Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Mike Ossi as Chairperson

New advisory board to identify assay development opportunities for emerging and drug-resistant infectious diseases…

CARY, NC (June 15, 2009) – Trana Discovery, Inc., an infectious disease drug discovery technology company, today announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Board that will advise the company on the needs ...

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TechJournal South: NC’s Trana Discovery names chair of scientific advisory board

CARY, NC – Trana Discovery Inc., an infectious disease drug discovery technology company, has formed a Scientific Advisory Board that will advise the company on the needs of the infectious disease community and on the development of assays to discover new medicines for the treatment of serious bacterial, viral, and fungal infectious diseases.  More information…

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Trana Discovery Featured on Radio in Vivo

Trana Discovery Featured on Radio in Vivo

Drug discovery technology company develops tools to find new treatments for serious infectious diseases…

CARY, NC (May 5, 2009) – Trana Discovery, Inc., an infectious disease drug discovery technology company, today announced that the company was featured on Radio in Vivo. CEO Steve Peterson and CTO Dick Guenther discuss how the company is developing technology for the discovery of new drugs ...

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Trana Discovery Taps Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Frank Johnson to Lead Sales and Marketing

Trana Discovery Taps Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Frank Johnson to Lead Sales and Marketing

Company develops tools to find new treatments for serious infectious diseases…

Frank Johnson
CARY, NC (February 25, 2009
) – Trana Discovery, Inc., a drug discovery technology company, today announced that Frank Johnson, a 33-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, ...

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TechJournal South: Trana Discovery offers new approach to fighting infectious disease

By Allan Maurer
CARY, NC—Trana Discovery, a biotech startup out of North Carolina State University and the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, has developed a new patented technology that may help defeat a wide range of infectious diseases, including antibiotic resistant staph and the wily AIDS virus. More information…

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