Description:
Alchemia is a biotechnology company specializing in the synthesis and manipulation of carbohydrates. In its simplest form, Alchemia's technology is a suite of novel chemical reagents, or building blocks, and proprietary methodologies, which allow the synthesis of new and unique carbohydrates and related structures in a simple manner. In addition, Alchemia utilizes its ability to manipulate carbohydrates to prepare combinatorial libraries of unparalleled molecular diversity for the discovery of new drug leads.
Alchemia's proprietary technology has the potential to overcome many of the hurdles of large-scale carbohydrate synthesis, thus opening the door to the widespread commercial application of synthetic carbohydrates.