Icagen
Biotechnology ResearchNorth Carolina, United States51-200 Employees
Icagen is a midsize biotechnology research company based in Durham, North Carolina. It partners with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to generate high-quality drug discovery leads, operating as a Target-to-Lead (T2L) provider. The organization works on multi-year integrated discovery programs as well as shorter, project-based efforts to fill gaps in R&D, drawing on a North American team with more than two decades of early-discovery experience. Icagen begins with identifying druggable targets and assessing their feasibility in collaboration with partners. It conducts target-based discovery across a range of target families and advances selected targets through an iterative process that combines computational evaluation with screening, biology, and medicinal chemistry to develop viable leads.