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Symic is developing a new category of therapeutics that offer an exciting and biologically innovative approach to treating disease. While it is clear that cells play an important role in tissue inflammation and regeneration, it is also known that the extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an equally critical role in maintaining healthy tissue. The ECM is the non-cellular component of the body’s tissues, and proteoglycans are important structural and functional macromolecules native to the ECM that are known to protect against tissue degradation and promote healing during illness or injury. Recognizing the importance of proteoglycans in many acute and chronic disease states, Symic developed a library of proprietary, ECM-specific compounds that mimic the protective effect of natural proteoglycans. For controlled injuries (e.g. incisions, balloon angioplasty), Symic’s ECM-specific compounds allow for local application, enhancing their ability to attenuate inflammation and reduce scarring only at the site of injury. In disease states known for chronic inflammation involving the ECM (e.g. cartilage in osteoarthritis), Symic’s technology can disrupt the cycle of degradation-inflammation by directly targeting and protecting the injured ECM. The ECM plays a critical role in many acute and chronic disease states, many of which have limited or no effective therapeutic options. Symic plans to advance its compounds in a variety of therapeutic areas with unmet clinical needs.
WHPM Biotech is a El Monte, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
AmCyte Inc. is a Santa Monica, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
The spirit of a start-up. The experience of an established biotech. Ichnos (`īk-nōz) Sciences—a name taken from an ancient Greek word for “footprint”—is shifting how the world thinks about innovation in medicine. With a new approach to the research, discovery, and development of breakthrough therapies in oncology, autoimmune disease and pain management, we`re forging a new path forward. We aim to treat disease holistically, seeking to provide curative therapies that extend human life and improve quality of life. Science SHIFTED…from now on. Headquartered in the NYC metro area, with additional teams in Switzerland and India, ours is a mission rooted in purpose and aimed at progress. Ichnos Sciences is fast-paced, forward-looking and visionary—a company where science, creativity, and a diversity of ideas thrive. We move quickly and nimbly, working together, challenging and supporting one another and ourselves to go further, look deeper, take scientific risks, shift perspectives, and drive forward the scientific advances that will leave an imprint on the world around us. At Ichnos Sciences, we dare to imagine a world where cure is possible. And we invite you to join us. Because cure is possible.
Orchard Therapeutics is a leading global fully integrated commercial-stage company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare diseases through innovative gene therapies. Orchard’s portfolio of autologous ex vivo gene therapy programs has demonstrated sustained clinical benefit in over 150 patients across five disease areas. These programs include Strimvelis®, the first autologous ex vivo gene therapy approved by the EMA in 2016, 3 programs in advanced registrational studies in MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy), WAS (Wiskott Aldrich syndrome) and ADA-SCID (adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency), 2 other clinical programs in X-CGD (X-linked chronic granulomatous disease) and beta-thalassemia, as well as an extensive preclinical pipeline. The company is partnered with world-leading institutions in gene therapy, including University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the University of Manchester and Central Manchester University Hospitals, the University of California Los Angeles and Boston Children’s Hospital, and Telethon Institute of Gene Therapy/Ospedale San Raffaele. Orchard is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ORTX) with offices in the UK and the US, including London, San Francisco and Boston.