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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.
Cognition Therapeutics Inc. is a drug discovery and development company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2007, the company uses proprietary biology and chemistry platforms to discover novel drug targets and disease modifying therapies for disorders of the central nervous system.
Nexus Biosystems is a Poway, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Genprex (Nasdaq: GNPX) is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing technologies for patients with cancer and diabetes. Genprex`s technologies are designed to administer disease-fighting genes to provide new treatment options for large patient populations with cancer and diabetes who currently have limited treatment options. Genprex works with world-class institutions and collaborators to develop drug candidates to further its pipeline of gene therapies in order to provide novel treatment approaches for patients with cancer and other serious diseases.
INmune Bio Inc. is a clinical stage immuno-oncology company focused on harnessing the patient`s immune system to treat cancer. INKmune, the company`s lead product, primes patient`s NK cells (natural killer cells) to kill cancer.