Formerly | Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc. |
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Company type | Public |
Industry | Biopharmaceuticals |
Founded | 1990 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Products | |
Revenue | US$90.1million (2023)[1] |
Number of employees | 137 (2024) |
Website | nektar |
Nektar Therapeutics is an American biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in San Francisco, California.[2] The company develops new drug candidates by applying its proprietary PEGylation and advanced polymer conjugate technologies to modify chemical structure of substances[3], which improves drug characteristics like retention and solubility.[4] It is a technology supplier to a number of pharmaceutical companies including Affymax, Amgen, Merck, Pfizer and UCB Pharma, etc.[2] The company developed the world's first inhalable non-injectable insulin, Exubera, which was awarded as the bronze award by Wall Street Journal for its technological breakthrough.[5]