2001 NIH Postdoctoral Job Fair

Applied Molecular Evolution, www.AMEvolution.com

Company Description: Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. (AME) is a leader in the application of directed molecular evolution to improve healthcare by optimizing and developing human biotherapeutics. AME uses its proprietary AME system™ directed molecular evolution technology platform to optimize genes and therapeutic proteins for specific commercial purposes. AME optimizes the full range of proteins, including antibodies, cytokines, hormones and enzymes to develop improved versions of currently marketed, FDA-approved biotherapeutics as well as novel human biopharmaceuticals.

AME has collaborations with leading developers of biotherapeutics including Med Immune, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Seattle Genetics whose biopharmaceutical projects may benefit from significant optimization of therapeutic and commercial parameters including:

* Improved efficacy and potency

* Reduced side effects

* Expanded therapeutic markets

* Decreased manufacturing costs

* Broadened and lengthened patents

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