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Rakuten Medical

www.rakuten-med.com

 
Rakuten Medical, Inc. is a global clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing precision, cell-targeting investigational therapies on its IlluminoxTM platform, which, in pre-clinical studies have been shown to induce rapid and selective cell killing and tumor necrosis. Outside of Japan, Illuminox therapies have not yet been approved as safe or effective by any regulatory authority. The company`s first drug developed on the Illuminox platform, ASP-1929, has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and is currently the subject of a global phase 3 clinical trial for recurrent head and neck cancer. Rakuten Medical is committed ...
  • Number of Employees: 250-1000
  • Annual Revenue: $50-100 Million

Executives

Name Title Contact Details
John Childs
Sr. Director of Information Systems and Information Security Profile

Funding

Rakuten Medical raised $100M on 08/01/2019

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