Our Business Strategy

Vitae Pharmaceuticals is singularly product-focused. We discover and rapidly advance promising novel small molecule compounds to create a robust and sustainable pipeline of high impact, high value clinical stage drugs with best-in-class potential.

Our strategies to achieve this goal are:

• To focus on well validated targets that align with significant unmet medical needs and large potential market opportunities, particularly those opportunities where the target has proven to be especially hard-to-drug, or where there is still significant room for improvement over existing drugs marketed or in development.
• To seamlessly integrate two powerful discovery and development assets:
  • World-class scientists delivering great science, who have the proven ability to discover, develop and deliver commercially successful drugs. This capability includes outstanding structural biology and medicinal chemistry and early stage clinical development assets, including synthesis, toxicology and x-ray crystallography.
  • Vitae Pharmaceuticals' CONTOUR® structure based drug discovery platform. Vitae Pharmaceuticals was founded with the goal of creating a paradigm breakthrough in the field of structure-based drug design and then working to bring the results of those efforts to patients. Vitae Pharmaceuticals' proprietary computational modeling system delivers superior drug design precision, novelty and speed, while often overcoming decades-old drug discovery challenges and by rapidly identifying and sorting through multiple potential solutions to today's highest value targets. Its proprietary computational software and algorithms, coupled with a proprietary scoring system to refine candidate selection, makes CONTOUR® structure based drug design quite unique.
• To build a company whose primary goal is to bring discoveries designed for life to patients – and that exhibits core values that include innovation, results-orientation, urgency of action, teamwork across functions and areas of expertise and a winning attitude. We believe all these are essential ingredients to create a great company and deliver significant value with important new medicines.
• To seek strategic partnerships with global pharmaceutical companies when and where it will help leverage the value of Vitae Pharmaceuticals' portfolio and will accelerate the progression of individual programs to patients.