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MitoQ Limited is a dietary supplement company based in Auckland, New Zealand founded in 2005. MitoQ Limited is a wholly own subsidiary of Antipodean Pharmaceuticals Inc, a product stage pharmaceutical research and development company with global patent protection for its targeted technology.

Mitoquinol mesylate was synthesized in the late 1990s by Michael P. Murphy and Robin A.J. Smith. Both Murphy and Smith were at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand where Murphy was a mitochondrial biochemist in the Department of Biochemistry and Smith was an organic chemist at the Department of Chemistry. The molecule was made by Geoffery Kelso, a PhD student present in Smith's lab.