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Obatala Sciences offers contract research services and research products to laboratories in industry and in academia. Our clients include US government entities, contract research organizations, non-profit organizations, and academic research laboratories. Our areas of expertise include obesity, diabetes, energy metabolism, musculoskeletal system biology, and wound healing. ObaCell, a unique fat tissue model, is a great tool for disease modeling and drug screening. Obatala Sciences can provide data in various areas depending on your interest including proteomics, genomics, functionality, and adipokine secretion. We also have the capability of forming white or brown fat tissue upon request.
NaturalNano Inc is a Pittsford, NY-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, & Biotech sector.
Soley Therapeutics is a San Francisco-based, privately-held biotechnology company that is combining artificial intelligence with unique proprietary molecular and cellular response detection for discovering and developing new efficacious drugs, using image acquisition-based approaches. We have translated decades of research by Soley`s co-founders on cell-responses to perturbations and resulting information-flow within the cell, into quantifiable high-resolution imaging to identify and accelerate the development of novel therapeutic molecules for complex diseases.
At LAVA, we are focused on applying our expertise in gamma-delta T-cell engagers (TCEs) to transform cancer therapy. We refer to our compounds as gamma-delta bispecific T-cell engagers, or gamma-delta bsTCEs. Our platform generates therapeutics that specifically activate a unique and relatively abundant effector gamma-delta T-cell subset called Vγ9Vδ2 (Vgamma9-Vdelta2) T-cells that have the ability to trigger activity of immune cells of both the innate and adaptive immune system. Our gamma-delta bsTCEs have demonstrated superior efficacy and safety profiles compared to other bsTCE approaches in preclinical studies and show preferential activity against tumor cells thereby potentially limiting toxicity in healthy tissue. To date, we are the only company developing bispecific gamma-delta T-cell engaging antibodies for the treatment of cancer. We are building a pipeline of gamma-delta bsTCEs that have applications in both solid and hematologic malignancies. Our lead program, LAVA-051, targets the tumor specific antigen CD1d, which can be overexpressed in multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), among other tumor types. LAVA-051 will enter a Phase I/IIa study in 1Q21.
Bamboo was formed to advance the work of Dr. Richard Jude Samulski, the Director of the Gene Therapy Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC), from the laboratory into human clinical trials where it could meet the requirements for drug approval. Dr. Samulski is a pioneer in the field of gene therapy. Over thirty (30) years ago, Dr. Samulski was the first person to realize the potential to use the adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a vehicle to replace a defective gene with a healthy gene. Since that time, he has re-engineered the naturally occurring virus to target delivery to certain tissues, de-target other tissues, and improve its safety. This has resulted in over twenty (20) patents related to the use of AAV for therapeutic uses. Dr. Samulski continues to lead innovation in the field of vector optimization and AAV re-engineering.