Welcome to the Peptide Therapeutics Foundation

The Peptide Therapeutics Foundation is a not-for-profit 501C(3), established in 2008 to promote research and development of peptide therapeutics. The Foundation is supported by six corporate sponsors; Ferring Research Institute, Inc., Ipsen Biosciences, Inc., MedImmune, the PolyPeptide Group, Zealand Pharma, and Zydus Cadila. To learn more about our corporate sponsors and board members click here.

Click here to view a poster summarizing the peptide drug landscape based on a comprehensive database of therapeutic peptides that have entered human clinical studies.
“Development Trends for Peptide Therapeutics: Status in 2016.” J.L. Lau and M.K. Dunn, Ferring Research Institute.
Citation: Presented at the 11th Annual Peptide Therapeutics Symposium, La Jolla, California, October 27-28, 2016.

News

Symposium

Peptide Therapeutic Foundation announces the winners of the Ferring Research Institute Innovation Grants program for 2016:

Stuart Brierley – Flinders University

James Deane – Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Laurent Derre – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Renjie Jin– Vanderbilt University

Florenta Kullmann – University of Pittsburgh

Mireille Lahoud – Monash University

Padma Murthi – Monash University

Markus Muttenthaler – University of Queensland

Rodrigo Pacheco – Fundación Ciencia & Vida

Aritro Sen – University of Rochester Medical Center

Marie van Dijk – Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

2015 Winners:
Steven Cohn – University of Virginia, Department of Medicine
Nardhy Gomez-Lopez – Wayne State University School of Medicine
Peter Gray – The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Guiying Nie – Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Laura Parry – The University of Melbourne

Congratulations to the 2016 Peptide Therapeutic Foundation Travel Grant recipients:
Kimberly Barnash, University of North Carolina
Christina Brock, Texas A&M, College of Veterinary Medicine
Dakota Brock, Texas A&M
Sasha Fraser, Tufts University
Antony Kam, Nanyang Technological University
Shining Loo, Nanyang Technological University
Dominic McBrayer, University of Nevada, Reno
Julia Piccoli, Universidade Estadual Paulista
Christina Schroeder, The University of Queensland
Luis Daniel Vasconcelos, Stockholm University
Fa Zhang, Indiana University
Dan Zhou, California Institute of Technology

October 26-27, 2017

The 12th Annual Peptide
Therapeutics Sympsium

The Salk Institute
La Jolla, California

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