Bend Biomedical – Nonprofit Global Health Pharmaceuticals

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Mission
Bend Biomedical is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit global health pharmaceutical company. We deliver high-quality, low-cost medicines to prevent and cure serious diseases in neglected populations around the world.

We use appropriate dosage forms, optimal packaging, and labels and instructions in the correct languages. This practice increases compliance and improves outcomes. The impoverished sick and susceptible deserve quality medicine in child-resistant, tamper-evident, environmentally-friendly packaging that they can understand.

Our goal is to meet the global need for inexpensive, safe and effective preventive and curative medicines by providing them at no cost and in adequate quantities to governments and aid organizations. Our current projects include albendazole (ALB), azithromycin (AZM), benzathine penicillin (BPG), diethylcarbamazine (DEC), dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PPQ), iron and folic acid (IFA), ivermectin (IVM), oral rehydration solution (ORS), praziquantel (PZQ), and vitamin A (Vit A).

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Over 580 million people are afflicted by one or more of our target diseases in the regions of Africa, Central America, South America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Children are disproportionately affected.

All of these diseases can be found in low-income populations. They impair or permanently disable millions of people every year, often making it difficult to be productive in school, to marry, and to earn a living. Many of these conditions cause life-long physical pain and social stigmatization.

Non-Neglected Tropical Diseases:

Yearly, there are over 600,000 cases of congenital syphilis that result in 200,000 fetal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths. Packaged in vials.

Vitamin A deficiency leads to eye disease in 5 million to 10 million children each year. Out of these, 250,000 to 500,000 children become blind; half die within a year of losing their sight. Individually packaged in blisters for community-based mass drug administration.

There are 240 million cases of malaria each year with 400,000 deaths. 90% of all cases are falciparum malaria. Packaged in blisters for individual treatment.

Diarrhea kills around 440,000 children under five every year. This is the third most common cause of child deaths worldwide and can be cured by inexpensive oral rehydration therapy. Packaged as powder for dilution in hermetically sealed, laminated sachets.

Neural tube defects occur in up to 6 per 1000 births and total 300,000 cases per year. Taking folic acid before and during early pregnancy can significantly reduce the risk of these disorders. Packaged in blister calendar packs for individual treatment.

Neglected Tropical Diseases:

Globally, 40 million people are carrying lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), with the majority of cases acquired during childhood. Individually packaged in blisters for community-based mass drug administration.

Africa has 21 million people with onchocerciasis, the second leading infectious cause of blindness in the world. Individually packaged in blisters for community-based mass drug administration.

Approximately 250 million children have hookworm, and it occurs most commonly in the rural tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. Individually packaged in blisters for community-based mass drug administration.

Approximately 80,000 cases of yaws are reported every year. Packaged in blisters for individual treatment.

Female genital schistosomiasis afflicts at least 30 million girls and women, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Individually packaged in blisters for community-based mass drug administration and single-dose treatment.

Photo Permissions

Congenital syphilis. Photo courtesy Sakviseth Bin.

Vitamin A blindness. Photo courtesy Jenny Matthews.

Malaria. Photo courtesy Alamy.

Diarrhea. Photo courtesy Ralf Falbe.

Neural tube defects. Photo courtesy BSIP Scientific and Medical Images.

Lymphatic filariasis. Coming soon.

Onchocerciasis. Coming soon.

Hookworm. Coming soon.

Yaws. Coming soon.

Schistosomiasis. Coming soon.

Our Team

Jonathan Prather, Ph.D.
Executive Director
President
Bend Biomedical
Bend, Oregon

Tolu Oyewumi, M.D., M.P.H.
Board of Directors
Chairperson
Physician-Scientist
Live Love Lead Consulting
Denver, Colorado

Kei Inoue, M.S.
Board of Directors
Vice President
Scientist III
Serán Bioscience
Bend, Oregon

Ryan Dunlap, C.P.A.
Board of Directors
Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer
Gurobi Optimization
Portland, Oregon

Amanda Swick
Outreach Coordinator
Secretary
Bend Biomedical
Bend, Oregon

Ravinder Abraham, B.S.Pharm.
Board of Advisors
Former Pharmacist in Charge
Moi’s Bridge Health Center
Eldoret, Kenya

Tameem Bakkar
Board of Directors
CEO
Ensemble Technical Services
Orlando, Florida

Kajari Bandyopadhyay, M.D.
Board of Advisors
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine
College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital
Kolkata, India

Sitikantha Banerjee, M.D.
Board of Advisors
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir, India

Jason Barron, J.D., Ph.D.
Board of Directors
Senior Counsel
Acer Therapeutics Inc.
Bend, Oregon

Steve Becker
Board of Directors
Principal Security Consultant
FireEye, Inc.
Bellevue, Washington

Kim Cummings, M.D.
Board of Advisors
Pediatrician
Virginia Garcia Wellness Center
Beaverton, Oregon

Neil Dial, J.D.
Board of Directors
Corporate Attorney
Eisenhower Carlson PLLC
Auburn, Washington

Valerie Fauvelle, M.S.
Board of Advisors
Senior Vice President for Regulatory Affairs
Chinook Therapeutics, Inc.
Seattle, Washington

Alyson (Aly) Fuller, J.D., Ph.D.
Board of Directors
VP Intellectual Property and Government Affairs
Prolacta Bioscience
Bend, Oregon

Tasha Gerasimow, Ph.D.
Board of Advisors
Partner, Intellectual Property
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Chicago, Illinois

Bedan Gichanga, M.D., M.B.A.
Board of Advisors
Chief Medical Officer
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Linda Goodwin, R.N., Ph.D.
Board of Directors
Retired Professor and IRB Member
Duke University
Klamath Falls, Oregon

Sunil Khanna, Ph.D.
Board of Directors
Professor and Chair, Global Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Jane Latin-Mackey, M.S.
Board of Advisors
CEO
Mindego, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Enrique Leòn, M.D.
Board of Advisors
Family Medicine
MultiCare Tacoma Family Medicine and Family Birth Center
Tacoma, Washington

Bob Mackey, M.B.A.
Board of Advisors
Sr. Vice President
Global Commercial Development and Planning
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
San Francisco, California

Cindy Lee Riesen, R.N.
Board of Directors
Research Biologist
Case Western Reserve University
Bay Village, Ohio

RuthAnn Sapinsky, B.S.N.
Board of Advisors
Emergency Department Nurse
Southwest Washington Medical Center
Vancouver, Washington

Ward Smith
Board of Directors
Director, Marketing & Business Development
Keystone Folding Box Company
Cincinnati, Ohio

Stuart Wilson
Board of Advisors
Software Engineer
S5 Solutions
Mukilteo, Washington

Charley Rowe, Ph.D.
Editorial Advisor
Bend Biomedical
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Raven Hollister, CNA
Intern
Bend Biomedical
Bend, Oregon

Jaron Swick
Webmaster
Age 14
Bend Biomedical
Bend, Oregon

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