Leonid Melamed

Biography

NovaMedica is a modern Russian pharmaceutical company established in 2012 by Domain Associates LLC, leading U.S. venture capital firm, and RUSNANO, JSC. NovaMedica strategy is aimed at search, registration and localization in Russia of intellectual property rights for innovative pharmaceutical products and technologies as well as at development and implementation of own R&D-projects. NovaMedica owns intellectual property rights within Russia and the CIS for 36 innovations which are part of the portfolio of RusnanoMedInvest, venture capital foundation. These are drugs for antivirus and anti-inflammatory therapy, to cure ophthalmic diseases and epilepsy as well as innovative technologies to detect oncological and infectious diseases. NovaMedica also develops a pipeline of its own drug products. R&D Division of the company plans to develop about 15 own drugs by 2022. Five out of them are already on the different stage of development – from creation of a drug formulation up to clinical trials and state registration, and four more are on the stage of launch. These are drugs to cure disease in the sphere of gastroenterology, pain treatment, neurology, ophthalmology and rheumatology. In April 2017 NovaMedica launched the Technology Center with state-of-the-art technological capabilities which were previously unobtainable in the Russian pharmaceutical industry. In 2016 NovaMedica became the key partner of Pfizer in Russia. Within the frameworks of this partnership NovaMedica started construction of a pharmaceutical GMP-facility in the Kaluga region in May 2017.  NovaMedica possesses a well-developed infrastructure to market promotion and selling of pharmaceutical products.

Research Interest

pharma