| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Alexander Gaidamaka |
Senior Vice President of Technology, Manufacturing and Quality | Profile |
MicuRx mission is to discover and develop safer and more convenient antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections. Multi-drug resistant (MDR) infections represent a major global threat to the public health, routinely forcing the use of antibiotics with high incidence of adverse effects. To combat resistant infections, physicians may increase dosing of antibiotics, or resort to less safe agents, pushing the safety envelope. Thus, healthcare providers and regulatory agencies increasingly face a difficult choice of balancing the risk of infection against unacceptably high adverse event rates from an effective but relatively toxic antibiotic. For example, in July 2016, FDA imposed a new labeling warning on the toxicity of fluoroquinolones, further restricting the use of this essential class, exemplified by anti-pseudomonal agent ciprofloxacin. Anti-MRSA agent linezolid (Zyvox®) is often used beyond its approved 14-day therapy, resulting in several myelosuppression-associated adverse effects listed in the black box warning for this important drug. MicuRx is addressing the critical need for effective but safer therapeutics by designing novel new compounds with reduced toxicity and adverse events while maintaining excellent clinical efficacy.
Deltagen is a San Mateo, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
IsoPlexis is leading a new era of functional proteomics. By identifying our most proteomically active single cells (or "superhero cells") for the first time, IsoPlexis enables researchers to connect more directly to in vivo biology and develop more precise and personalized therapies. IsoPlexis has been named Top Innovation or Design by The Scientist Magazine, Fierce, BIG Innovation, Red Dot and multiple others. The IsoPlexis platform is used globally by researchers, including those at the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies and at the majority of leading U.S. comprehensive cancer centers.
Tectonic, co-founded by Andrew Kruse and Tim Springer of Harvard Medical School, is transforming the discovery of antibodies and other biologic drugs targeting G-protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs). With our proprietary GEODe™ platform, we are targeting the most difficult, previously undruggable receptors in the class, aiming to unlock their therapeutic utility to develop new treatments for a broad range of patients with important unmet needs.
Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics that block cancer and inflammatory disease processes. The company`s product candidates include FP-1039/GSK3052230, a protein therapeutic is in PhaseIb clinical trials for trapping and neutralizing cancer-promoting fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) involved in cancer cell proliferation and new blood vessel formation; FPA008, an antibody that inhibits colony stimulating factor-1 receptor; and FPA144 is an antibody for inhibiting FGF receptor 2b, as well as to treat patients with gastric cancer and potentially other solid tumors. It has collaboration and license agreements with GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Glaxo Group Limited, GSK-HGS, Pfizer Inc., and UCB Pharma S.A. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.