ALPAT

Plant Advanced Technologies SA, a plant biotechnology company, produces and sells actives for cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical markets in France. Its technologies include PAT Plant Milking that produces active extracts through plant stimulation and living-root exudation while preserving plants; PAT Target Binding, which finds the ligands that bind to the protein targets of interest, such as enzymes; and PAT Friday, a recombinant protein expression system using natural protein excretion system of genetically modified carnivorous plants to produce outside their leaf in a sterile closed pitcher. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France.