Participating Companies

Com­mer­cial­iz­ing Vas­ce­pa, the first and on­ly pure EPA ome­ga-3 fat­ty acid ap­proved to low­er trig­lyc­eride lev­els in adults. Pre­sent­ed (+) da­ta from RE­DUCE-IT CV Out­comes trial at AHA. First 9mo rev’s of 2020 ~$450M. [more in­for­ma­tion]

With the most ex­ten­sive li­brary of CRIS­PR nu­cleas­es in the in­dus­try, a deep bench of world-class foun­ders, sci­en­tif­ic ad­vi­sors, and a lead­er­ship team with a proven track re­cord of de­vel­op­ing nov­el plat­forms and ther­a­peu­tics, Ar­bor is well-po­si­tioned to de­vel­op cu­ra­tive ge­net­ic medicines for all pa­tients with ge­net­ic dis­eas­es. Ar­bor’s pipe­line is pow­ered by its pro­pri­e­tary biodis­cov­ery en­gine, which blends com­pu­ta­tio­n­al search and sci­en­tif­ic ex­per­tise to dis­cov­er, screen, and en­gi­neer pro­teins at un­prece­dent­ed scale and speed. Ar­bor has raised more than $300 mil­lion to date and top in­ves­tors in­clude ARCH Ven­ture Part­n­ers, Te­masek, Al­ly Bridge Group, and TCG Crossover. [more in­for­ma­tion]

Com­mer­cial-stage, fo­cused on neu­ro­log­i­cal & neu­ropsychi­a­tric dis­eas­es; CGRP re­cep­tor an­ta­g­on­ist, glu­ta­mate mo­d­u­la­tion, and MPO plat­forms. NURTEC® ODT ap­proved 1Q20 acute treat­ment of mi­graine and 1Q21 pre­ven­tive treat­ment of mi­graine; $136m 3Q21 rev­enues. [more in­for­ma­tion]

Nov­el oph­thalmic tech­nol­o­gy to treat re­frac­tive er­ror ad­dress­ing mul­ti-bil­lion mar­kets in con­tact lens­es (pres­by­opia, astig­ma­tism, my­opia, my­opia pro­gres­sion) and corneal vi­sion cor­rec­tion (non sur­g­i­cal fla­p­less las­er so­lu­tion). Om­ni­fo­cal con­tact lens pres­by­opia 510k sub­mis­sion and my­opia pro­gres­sion clin­i­cal da­ta in 2H2022. Based on No­bel Prize win­n­ing fem­to-se­cond las­er tech­nol­o­gy de­vel­oped by Bausch & Lomb and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Roch­ester. [more in­for­ma­tion]

De­vel­op­ing nov­el ther­a­pies for the treat­ment of pros­tate can­cer tar­get­ing the N-ter­mi­nal do­main of the an­dro­gen re­cep­tor. ES­SA’s lead clin­i­cal can­di­date, EPI-7386 is a high­ly-se­lec­tive, oral, small molecule in­hibi­tor of the N-ter­mi­nal do­main of the an­dro­gen re­cep­tor in de­vel­op­ment as a monother­a­py (Ph 1) and in com­bi­na­tion with stan­dard-of-care an­tian­dro­gens in pa­tients with cas­tra­tion-re­sis­tant pros­tate can­cer (Ph 1/2). [more in­for­ma­tion]

Pipe­line tar­gets nov­el im­munometabolic path­ways, in­clud­ing LAN­CL2, NL­RX1 and PLXD­C2. Lead as­set omi­lan­cor is a nov­el, oral, gut-re­strict­ed small molecule ther­a­peu­tic can­di­date for the treat­ment of ul­cer­a­tive coli­tis (com­plet­ed Ph2), Crohn’s dis­ease (Ph2) and Eosinophil­ic Esophagi­tis that tar­gets the LAN­CL2 path­way [more in­for­ma­tion]

Fo­cused on de­vel­op­ing next-gen­er­a­tion T cell-based im­munother­a­pies for the treat­ment of he­ma­to­log­i­cal ma­lig­nan­cies and solid tu­mor in­di­ca­tions. Mark­er's cell ther­a­py tech­nol­o­gy is based on the se­lec­tive ex­pan­sion of non-en­gi­neered, tu­mor-spe­cif­ic T cells that rec­og­nize tu­mor as­so­ci­at­ed anti­gens and kill tu­mor cells ex­press­ing those tar­gets. [more in­for­ma­tion]

A clin­i­cal stage bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany de­vel­op­ing can­cer im­munother­a­pies and drugs to tar­get 75% of solid tu­mors and to pre­vent can­cer me­tas­ta­sis. Min­er­va has a pipe­line that in­cludes next-gen CAR Ts and other mo­dal­i­ties. The Com­pany has an on­go­ing Phase I/II study of huM­NC2-CAR44, an au­tol­o­gous CAR T ther­a­py, tar­get­ing the tu­mor-as­so­ci­at­ed form of MUC1 (MUC1*) which is a growth fac­tor re­cep­tor that drives growth of an es­ti­mat­ed 93% of breast can­cers. [more in­for­ma­tion]

Mul­ti-as­set next-gen AI-driv­en molec­u­lar glue-based TPD plat­form. Lead pro­gram in Ph 1 fo­cused on GSP­T1, a key reg­u­la­tor and vul­n­er­a­bil­i­ty of MYC-driv­en solid tu­mors, in­clud­ing lung can­cer. [more in­for­ma­tion]

De­vel­ops next-gen­er­a­tion im­munother­a­pies for can­cer, in­flam­ma­tion and au­toim­mu­ni­ty us­ing de no­vo pro­tein de­sign tech­nol­o­gy. [more in­for­ma­tion]

Lead prod­uct Hexvix®/Cysview® im­proves de­tec­tion of blad­der can­cer un­der blue light cys­tos­copy (BLC). Ap­proved in over 30 coun­tries, Hexvix®/Cysview® is di­rect­ly sold in the US and EU, and through world­wide part­n­er­ships. Pho­to­cure ex­pects up to $250M from li­cense of non-core as­set CE­VI­RA® to Asieris. Head­quar­tered in Os­lo, Nor­way, Pho­to­cure is 20% owned by US in­ves­tors (sig­ni­f­i­cant in­crease over past few years) and com­mer­cial­ly fo­cused on US mar­ket. [more in­for­ma­tion]

De­vel­op­er of tar­get­ed on­col­o­gy ther­a­pies in­clud­ing he­ma­tol­o­gy/solid tu­mors. RVU120 is whol­ly-owned first-in-class oral CD­K8/19 in­hibi­tor in Phase I for AML/MDS Small molecule, syn­thet­ic lethal­i­ty plat­form in pre-clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment in­clud­ing nov­el tar­gets WRN and PRMT5. [more in­for­ma­tion]

De­vel­ops pre­ci­sion pep­tide can­cer im­munother­a­pies us­ing pa­tient HLA tar­get recog­ni­tion ge­net­ics based on pro­pri­e­tary com­pu­ta­tio­n­al da­ta sci­ence. Tre­os’ lead can­di­date is Po­lyPEPI-1018, an off-the-shelf im­munother­a­py for the treat­ment of me­tastat­ic col­orec­tal can­cer cur­rent­ly in a bio­mark­er-based Phase 1b clin­i­cal trial. Tre­os has raised $42 mil­lion to date. [more in­for­ma­tion]

Pro­pri­e­tary ChA­dOx (prime) and MVA (boost) tech­nol­o­gy plat­form in­duces CD8+ T cell and anti­body im­mune re­spons­es to treat and pre­vent in­fec­tious dis­eas­es and can­cer. Broad ther­a­peu­tic pipe­line. En­cour­ag­ing Ph1/2 in­ter­im ef­fi­ca­cy da­ta for VTP-300 (HBV func­tio­n­al cure) and VTP-200 (high-risk HPV ther­a­peu­tic) ef­fi­ca­cy da­ta ex­pect­ed 4Q2022. $15M roy­al­ty rev­enue dur­ing Q42021 from As­traZene­ca's com­mer­cial sales of Vaxzevria® (out-li­censed ChA­dOx COVID-19 vaccine) [more in­for­ma­tion]

Were­wolf Ther­a­peu­tics, Inc. is an in­no­va­tive bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany pi­oneer­ing the de­vel­op­ment of ther­a­peu­tics en­gi­neered to sti­m­u­late the body’s im­mune sys­tem for the treat­ment of can­cer. [more in­for­ma­tion]