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The trillions of microbes that call us home – the human microbiome – perform critical functions that preserve our health including helping develop our immune system, manufacturing nutrients such as vitamins, and harvesting energy from the diet. Alterations of the human microbiome are increasingly recognized as a key factor in autoimmune, metabolic, infectious and many other diseases. For millions of years, humans have co-evolved with this community of microbes, communicating in an ancient language that holds critical clues about how autoimmune and infectious diseases develop. This language is based on a system of signals that our resident microbes use to successfully colonize us, such as byproducts of bacterial metabolism and factors that bacteria use to adapt to human niches. Recent discoveries have shown that most of these signals do not lead to disease, rather, they promote our long-term survival. Vedanta Biosciences is developing an innovative class of therapies that modulate pathways of interaction between the human microbiome and the host immune system. Vedanta Biosciences was co-founded by PureTech and a group of world renowned experts in immunology and microbiology.
Amyloid diseases are a diverse group of disorders, characterized by the deposition of amyloid protein fibrils in vital organs and tissues. There are approximately 30 different types of amyloidosis, each resulting from the misfolding and aggregation of a specific protein, and they are all severely debilitating, progressive, and often fatal.
Alexis Biochemical Corp. is a San Diego, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Realm Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel immunomodulatory therapies to protect and improve the lives of adults and children.
Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focuses on discovering and developing drugs for various diseases. Its product candidates include VTP-34072, which is in a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; and VTP-37948 that is in Phase I clinical trials for alzheimer's disease. The company’s products in preclinical studies comprise VTP-43742 for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, such as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Behcet's disease, and autoimmune uveitis; VTP-38443 for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome that consists of unstable angina and heart attacks; and VTP-38543 for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, an immune system mediated inflammation of the skin. Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has collaborations with Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH for the development of VTP-34072 and VTP-37948. Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in January, 2005. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.