Denali BioTechnologies

"Denali BioTechnologies Inc. was founded in 2006 by biochemist and food scientist Maureen McKenzie, Ph.D. as the sister research and development company to Denali BioTechnologies LLC, which was founded two years earlier. The LLC was established through the help of a substantial United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to determine if Alaska’s wild berries could be developed and commercialized. After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its final Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations in 2007, it became clear that the demonstration company and processing facility the LLC had set up in Kenai, Alaska, would not be able to meet these stringent new standards. The LLC was dissolved and the owners left the business. Fortunately, the decade of research and development efforts initiated by Dr. McKenzie while affiliated with the company was not lost. Denali BioTechnologies Inc. absorbed the intellectual property and state-of-the-art processing equipment of the LLC; is building a new GMP-compliant facility in Homer, Alaska; re-established key relationships with harvesters; and is back on track to carry out the original vision of the company. Through our research, we have identified and prepared for commercial production numerous dietary supplement ingredients, all made from wild and whole Alaska plants and seafood of the highest potency and purity and delivered as dried flakes or in powders of specified mesh sizes. Our first research efforts were centered on blueberries. When we discovered the startlingly high flavonoid content of wild blueberries grown in near 24-hour sunlight, we knew we were onto something. Now AuroraBlue®, made from Alaska blueberries and bilberries, is our flagship product."