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Wheeler Biologics is an Oklahoma City based company, founded in 2020, is a boutique contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in process development and small batch CGMP production of therapeutic antibodies. Wheeler produces high quality, affordable and reliable biologics specifically for emerging biopharma companies. Portable CMC™ is Wheeler’s first product (miniaturized production platform) and uniquely enables discovery service companies, like Alloy therapeutics, Wheeler’s first customer, to integrate discovery with small scale manufacturing. The company is led by an executive team with a total of 150 years of clinical and commercial GMP production experience. Wheeler is launching its first Portable CMC™ franchise, coupled with Phase 1 & 2 GMP production, for antibodies and bispecifics with a plan to develop a plasmid Portable CMC™ product for cell and gene therapy. Wheeler closed its $14 million seed round providing roadmap to developing and installing Portable CMC™ installed inside Alloy in Q1 ’22 and in April 2023, announced closing of $31 million Series A round. This additional capital funded its ECHO2 antibody and bispecific franchise and CGMP facility that opened in Q3 ’23.

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