PYPD

Polypid Ltd.

A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Israel that makes controlled-release medicines delivered right where they're needed. Its PLEX technology wraps drugs in layers of polymers and lipids so they release slowly over weeks; its lead product, D-PLEX100, is an antibiotic that prevents surgical site infections by releasing doxycycline at the wound for a month. Founded in 2008 by Dr. Noam Emanuel, the company's name is a mashup of its own technology—Polymer, Lipid, and Encapsulation matriX.