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Mersana is rewriting the rules for immunoconjugate therapies by leveraging our Fleximer platform to create precisely targeted and highly tailored drugs that radically improve patients` lives. Our Fleximer platform allows us to custom design an ADC with specific properties to overcome limitations of current ADC approaches and increase the drug`s chances of effectively attacking a particular cancer. We engineer immunoconjugates to deliver industry-leading payloads of an array of anti-tumor agents directly to cancerous cells, controlling when, where and how those agents are released. Because we can safely deliver higher quantities of therapeutic payloads directly to a tumor, Mersana`s ADC therapies have the potential to more effectively treat broader populations of cancer patients while significantly reducing the side effects associated with many of today`s cancer treatments.
Aldagen is a Durham, NC-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Graphite Bio is a next-generation gene editing company focused on the development of first-in-class therapies for patients suffering from life-threatening genetic diseases. The company`s platform harnesses the natural cellular process of homology directed repair (HDR) and targeted DNA integration to precisely repair genetic defects at their source. Graphite Bio is leveraging its differentiated platform to advance a portfolio of transformative genetic treatments with potential for saving and dramatically improving patients` lives
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.
Eccrine Systems, Inc., is focused on the development of non-invasive disposable electronic patches that accurately measure and transmit real-time data about human sweat. Applications for our technology and IP span market opportunities within medicine, industry, and sports. We seek to establish exclusive collaborations with downstream partners who understand the opportunity for embedding and deploying our technology in their market-specific applications. Our role in these collaborations is the modular development and prototyping of desired sweat sensor features and capabilities. Our partners embed our technology in their commercial applications and translate data about sweat and other biometrics into high value products for their customers.