Codexis

Codexis, Inc. is a protein engineering company that produces enzymes for pharmaceutical, food and medical applications.
The company is based in Redwood City, CA and was incorporated in 2002. It went public in April 2010 on NASDAQ.
Codexis won the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2006 for its work on a building block of Lipitor and a second time with Merck in 2010 for its work on the active ingredient in Januvia.