Company introduction
Space Peptides is a peptide CRO & CDMO specialized in Good Manufacture Practice (GMP) grade peptide manufacturing, from discovery, development to commercial use. It also provides in vitro / in vivo validation of the molecules of interests.
The GDBspace discovery engine is specialized in drug discovery using artificial intelligence. For more information, see: http://gdbspace.com
Core Team
Dr. Runze He
Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond
Prof. Wenjing Hong
Dr. Jingwen Shi
Dr. Sacha Javor
Liang Kong
Jian Guo
Runquan Li
Tao Cai
Yuxiang Zuo
Advisory Board
Prof. Jean-Louis Reymond
Worldwide renowned for its research on chemical space.
Professor in chemistry, Bern University. Previously assistant professor at Scripps Research Institute.
Associate member of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology. Associate editor of Chem. Comm.
Published 200+ articles in high impact journals, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, European Horizon2020 etc., 3 spin-off companies.
Prof. Hans-Joachim Böhm
Works on the development of new methods for computer-aided drug design.
Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Basel. Worked for many years at Roche where he became global head of chemical research. He also worked at Siemens in Munich in the field of microelectronics research and then at BASF in Ludwigshafen in structure-based design of drugs. Prof. Böhm studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe where he did both PhD and Post Doc
Member of the Swiss Science Council
Prof. Wenjing Hong
Prof. Hong focus on single-molecule scale electronics and instrumental engineering. He is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in Xiamen University, China. Previously, leader of the molecular electronics research in the group of Prof. Dr. Thomas Wandlowski in University of Bern, Switzerland.
Published 60+ peer-reviewed papers in top journals of chemistry.
Dr. Hongming Chen
After working as a postdoctoral fellow in computational chemistry in Bayer Pharma Research Center in Wuppertal, Germany, Hongming Chen joined AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden, in 2001. He has been focusing on QSAR modeling and cheminformatics and has delivered various predictive tools and computational chemistry support to the AstraZeneca Compound Collection Enhancement and Predictive Chemistry initiatives, as well as to numerous early drug discovery projects. He has authored/coauthored 30 scientific papers and three book chapters.
Hongming Chen studied polymer material engineering in Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, and obtained his PhD in computational chemistry in 1998 from the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Jingwen Shi
Co-founded GDBspace when envisioning its huge potential. Management consultant for pharmaceuticals (clients include Roche, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, etc) and private equity investments. Angel investor in Abionic, Wildbiene. Board member of Space Peptides, where building successful partnerships for the company.
PhD from Karolinska Institute; Visiting scholar at Max-Planck Institute. Business Administration from Notre Dame, USA. Publications in Nature Nanotechnology, ACS, etc.
Dr. Simon Nebel
Simon Nebel has participated in the financing in a number of life science companies and the M&A transactions for Aravis portfolio companies. Simon has been board member or observer in fourteen companies. Before joining Aravis, he was a group strategist at UBS.
PhD in Biophysics from the Biocentre of the University of Basel and MBA from the London Business School
Bettina Buomberger
Experienced sustainability and compliance expert with many years of experience in the Jacobs Foundation, PwC and the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Bettina's main goal is to fully integrate sustainability and compliance topics into the business strategy. She now works as head of organizational development in the department of education, culture and sports. She believes that every company can be run in a way to have a positive impact on the triple bottom line - people, profit and the planet. Sustainability also offers a lot of business opportunities. Sustainable businesses are in for the long run.
Bettina holds a Master of Arts in Communication of the University of Zurich, a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Corporate Responsibility and Social Management from the University of Applied Sciences Winterthur as well as an Executive Master of Business Administration of the University of Zurich.
Company history
Our history
Technology transfer from Prof. Reymond’s group at Uni Bern, Switzerland
Peptide synthesis process development and mid-scale manufacturing pilot plant (capacity 50kg/yr)
Chemical space theory applied to drug discovery
Case study: Covid-19 peptide fusion inhibitor
Xiamen Preclinical CRO Laboratory
Opening ceremony of large-scale peptide API production plant Taizhou, CDMO/CMC Full production capacity of 5 tons (GMP)
Market Proof-of Concept established with leading brands in key markets
