| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
James Bircher |
Chief Technical Operations Officer | Profile |
Biolog is a Hayward, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Arixa Pharmaceuticals™ is developing oral antibiotics for resistant Gram-negative infections, an urgent need. Our lead program is an oral prodrug of Avibactam®, a broad spectrum beta-lactamase inhibitor recently approved by FDA. We have addressed and solved the medicinal chemistry issues which complicate the prodrugging of this class of compounds, and expect to receive broad composition of matter patent protection.
Terumo Interventional Systems is a Somerset, NJ-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Xcell Bio is a San Francisco-based life science company dedicated to bringing an innovative primary cell control solution to the immunotherapy market to support research, drug discovery, and cell manufacturing. Xcell`s mission is to democratize maintenance, expansion and control of any primary cell type through its bench-top primary cell control systems, reagent kits, software, and standardized protocols. The technology delivers simple control of primary cell types from blood or solid tissue, including a range of immune cells, stem cells, and tumor cells. This patient-centric technology offers a unique and proprietary capability to improve immunotherapy efficacy, safety, and persistence through more predictive and iterative therapy development and rapid, highly-controlled clinical cell manufacturing.
Medicenna is a clinical stage immunotherapy company focused on the development of novel, highly selective versions of IL-2, IL-4 and IL-13 Superkines and first in class Empowered Superkines. Medicenna`s long-acting IL-2 Superkine, MDNA11, is a next-generation IL-2 with superior CD122 binding without CD25 affinity thereby preferentially stimulating cancer killing effector T cells and NK cells. Medicenna`s early-stage BiSKITs™ program, (Bifunctional SuperKine ImmunoTherapies) is designed to enhance the ability of Superkines to treat immunologically “cold” tumors. Medicenna`s IL-4 Empowered Superkine, MDNA55, has been studied in 5 clinical trials including a Phase 2b trial for recurrent GBM, the most common and uniformly fatal form of brain cancer. MDNA55 has obtained Fast-Track and Orphan Drug status from the FDA and FDA/EMA, respectively.