GPC Biotech AG
Type	Public
Founded	August 1997
Location	Martinsried, Germany
Key people	Bernd R. Seizinger, M.D., Ph.D. (CEO) Mirko Scherer, Ph.D. (CFO)
Industry	Biotechnology
Products	3 in Clincal or Pre-clinical development
Revenue	€12,649 (2004)
Website	http://www.gpc-biotech.com/

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Founded in 1997, the company was held privately until May 2000 when an initial public offering was made on the now defunct German Neuer Markt. Subsequent to the closing of the Neuer, GPC refinanced in June 2004 through a public stock offering and listed American Depositary Receipts on the United States NASDAQ exchange. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An American Depositary Receipt (ADR) is how the stock of most foreign companies trades in United States stock markets. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American electronic stock exchange. ...

In March 2000, the company acquired Mitotix, a United States biotechnology firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This acquisition has led to the company having ~50% of it's employees based in the United States and the remaining 50% in Germany. Further, the acquisition of Mitotix provided convenient proximity to GPC's long term and continuing collaboration with ALTANA Pharma AG and the ALTANA Research Institute, located in Waltham, Massachusetts. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... Waltham is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ...

Products

As of July 2005, the company does not have a marketed product, though it has three therapeutics in its drug discovery pipeline as shown in the table below. In medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which drugs are discovered and/or designed. ...

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Notes

1. ^  Mission statement obtained from http://www.gpc-biotech.com/en/about_the_company/index.html. Retrieved July 9, 2005.
2. A portion of basic corporate information was obtained from the Hoover's Online Fact Sheet for GPC Biotech AG. Retrieved July 9, 2005.
3. reference: Annual Report for the year 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2005.
4. reference: Annual Report for the year 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2005.