White Point Systems: Corporate Information

Corporate Profile

Mission Statement
To support the pharmaceutical industry with research informatics for natural products drug discovery.

Unique Technology
NAPIS ^® (NAtural Products Information System). A laboratory information management system (LIMS) based database that is designed specifically to support natural products discovery. It is a program management and decision support system tool for prioritizing active leads in screening campaigns. U.S. Patent 5,978,804.

Biodiversity Assessment
Consultation services for biodiversity assessment and predictive modeling of species occurrence that are specifically designed to support natural products field research. Our computer modeling methods emphasize GIS grid analysis and include satellite remote sensing and other advanced data acquisition methods.

Financing
Privately held and funded by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant funds from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and National Institute for General Medical Sciences, and by contracts within the pharmaceutical industry.

Key Personnel
Gregg R. Dietzman President, Program Director: gregg@whitepointsystems.com

Company History

Oct 2010 - Receive 5-year R&D Contract from NIH 'Global Data Center for International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups'
June 2010 - Receive SBIR Phase I grant from NIGMS 'Open Sourcing the NAPIS Technology'
Oct 2009 - Release NAPIS ^® Web version 1.0
Jan 2006 - Release NAPIS ^® version 2.0.6
Oct 2003 - Receive 6-year R&D Contract from NIH 'Global Data Center for International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups'
Oct 2001 - Receive 2001 National Tibbetts Award from U.S. Small Business Administration
Apr 2001 - Release NAPIS ^® version 2.0
July 2000 - Receive NSF grant for Antarctic research
July 1999 - Receive SBIR Phase I grant from NCI 'Natural Product Drugs from Cold-Water Marine Organisms'
Sep 1998 - Change name to White Point Systems, Inc. with the Division White Point BioMarine
Dec 1997 - Release NAPIS ^® Enterprise
July 1997 - Release NAPIS ^® Laboratory
Jun 1997 - Release NAPIS ^® Lite
July 1995 - Receive SBIR Phase II grant from NCI 'Information Handling for Natural Products Development'
Dec 1993 - Receive SBIR Phase I grant from NCI 'Information Handling for Natural Products Acquisitions'
July 1993 - Receive SBIR Phase I grant from NCI 'Natural Product Drugs from Stressed Marine Invertebrates'
July 1993 - Incorporated as White Point BioMarine, Inc.

Affiliations

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Member, International Conservation Mentor Program