Research & Development

Our team is committed to science-led innovation to create products that work for brands who care, delivering research-backed formulations in effective next-generation products across a wide variety of form factors.

Communication & Collaboration are Key

While most competitors provide straightforward formulations and standard forms, OBX works collaboratively with each of our clients, to develop sophisticated formulations in innovative form factors, and often leveraging new and cutting-edge technologies. The expertise of OBX’s in-house R&D team combined with its internal consumer insights and external efficacy studies, allows OBX to validate pre-commercial products, ensuring that every product is research-backed and effective for its desired purpose.

About the Team

Led by Alex DePalma, and supported by a team of chemists and food scientists, the Formulation and Finished Goods R&D team is focused on the development and commercialization of research-backed finished products, combining effective formulations with new and existing product form factors to create next-generation health & wellness products.

Method Development Capabilities

OBX’s method development capability enables the flexibility to adapt to potential regulatory conditions and implement cost-disruptive technologies for the production of health & wellness products, including:
  • Botanical hemp extraction, isolation, and purification
  • Botanical hemp derived starting materials plus conversion and purification
  • Biosynthetic starting materials downstream purification and scale up
  • Organic starting materials (such as terpenes) with synthetic pathways to produce cannabinoids
  • New Chemical Entity (NCE) development for the modification and purification of novel cannabinoids

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