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Zucara Therapeutics, a CDRD and MaRS Innovation portfolio company, is developing the first drug therapy to prevent hypoglycemia in people with diabetes. Our first-in-class therapeutic is focused on improving glucagon counterregulation by inhibiting somatostatin which is dysregulated in Type 1 diabetes.
The combined characteristics of a modern machine (with a touch of humanity) and mythical creature symbolizes Lykan Bioscience™ as a company. The team at Lykan Bioscience operates with a highly advanced way of thinking. We offer our clients speed, agility, and control while accelerating their cell and gene therapy products from clinical through to commercial manufacturing. As part of your team, our Manufacturing Services Organization™ (MSO) will transform what is traditionally offered in the CGT industry, as we guide you through your manufacturing journey. Our mission is to partner with our clients, to maximize patient accessibility and expedite time to market for cell-based therapies.
GenBio is a San Diego, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
NaturalNano Inc is a Pittsford, NY-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Protagonist Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing the discovery and development of target oral peptides as well differentiated alternatives to antibodies, and also as new chemical entities (NCEs) against those targets and life threatening diseases for which suitable small molecule and/or biologic options are not available. Peptides typically suffer from limitations of poor proteolytic stability and therefore find scarce therapeutic utility that is largely limited to ‘injectable drugs’. Protagonist’s technology platform is aimed at overcoming these restrictions and expanding the scope of peptide therapeutics to address unmet needs. Specific emphasis is placed on identifying ‘orally stable’ scaffolds and/or engineering oral stability characteristics onto them. The platform has been optimized over the years and involves synergistic integration of rational drug design, diversity oriented computational tools, phage display libraries, recombinant peptide expression, ex vivo oral stability methods, and peptide/medicinal chemistry techniques. This activity has led to the identification of ‘privileged scaffolds’ with favorable oral stability characteristics. Furthermore, the technology platform is well suited both for de novo discovery against a target and optimization around a given chemical starting point.