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We are a pharmaceutical startup in Memphis, Tennessee. Our focus is on pediatric drug delivery designs as we transform FDA approved therapeutic compounds into pediatric friendly drug delivery systems. We have designed several Epinephrine prodrugs to eliminate the need to use Epipen injections. We seek seed funding for organic synthesis, formulation development and CMC drug development.

InvivoSciences, Inc. (IVS) is a preclinical stage biotech company with a team of drug development experts, including Dr. Joseph Schlessinger, who developed various therapies including, a blockbuster drug - Sutent.
With an increasingly aging population with chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart failure is an urgent and critical challenge without an effective solution. There have been no successful phase III trials in worsening chronic heart failure or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Large clinical trials required for the heart failure trials have been the bottleneck. There is clear evidence showing that genetic factors drive heart failure development. Our mission is to cure heart failure one gene at a time.
We have leveraged our advanced artificial intelligence integrated breakthrough in precision medicine discovery platform using patient-derived human micro heart on a chip, NuHeart™, to identify and validate multiple drug pipelines rapidly as well as help us to determine biomarkers and stratify the patients for a clinical trial recruitments. Our precision heart failure pipelines are at least ten times more cost-effective to develop, especially during their clinical stages. Using our platform, we have developed two pipelines of small-molecule candidates for difficult to treat, genetically defined heart failure conditions. Our Pipelines of precision medicines have the potential to deliver better outcomes for patients fighting hard to treat heritable heart disease.
Collaborative patient-driven precision medicine-based drug development empowered with our novel platform will lead to meaningfully better outcomes for heart failure patients, which we refer to as InvivoSciences’ discovery engine to develop target therapies. Our lead program includes candidates in preclinical development for monogenetic heart failures. To date, IVS raised $8.5 Million non-dilutive funding from founders, board, commercial contracts, and grants. The funds have been used to create a portfolio of assets (breakthrough discovery platform, NuHeart™, three genetically defined disease models, current discovery programs, and a strong portfolio of patents including both US and international.
To join and support our drug discovery programs forward, InvivoSciences is seeking world-class life science investors and strategic partners for our Series A round for growth capital for $10 M in two trunches for commercial growth and accelerating our drug program.

Company:
Maculus Therapeutix is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on finding practical solutions to treat chronic diseases of the retina and optic nerve such as wetAMD (Age related Macular Degeneration) in the Ophthalmology space with a novel tunable biodegradable proprietary product – MacuBloc™ capable of delivering any FDA approved drugs for Wet AMD to the site of the disease. With its unique suitability for targeted and extended delivery of drugs to back of the human eyes, MacuBloc™ offers significant benefits to Wet AMD patients over existing products: a single intravitreal injection that lasts an year instead of the current 10-12 monthly injections plus significant potential reduction in inflammation, infection, doctor visits and total cost of care compared to current practice.

Market:
The global market size of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is currently $7.7B, growing at 7.6% CAGR and is expected to reach a value of $11B by 2025. Current standard of care involves 10-12 monthly injections with a 30 gauge syringe needle going through the eye sclera, often resulting post-injection pain and possible infection due to repeated injections in a small area as well as ruptured blood vessels in the sclera. By reducing the number of injections from 10+ to just ONE, MacuBloc™ formulation is likely to be a treatment of choice.

Nenupharma was born out of a shared passion to contribute to the development of innovative pharmaceuticals in different disease areas.

Nenupharma uses the best of skills that have been developed through an extensive career in pharmaceutical industry, regulatory affairs, market access, medical practice and life science.

Nenupharma has been working with high level experts on different levels and enjoys reliable, professional and ethical reputation among its network as well as its customers.

For more information, visit our website at:
www.nenupharma.com

ZY Therapeutics Inc. is a venture backed startup company focusing on developing innovative precision drug delivery technology. It was founded by two scientists in 2015 in North Carolina. In 2017, ZY’s leading project won collaboration award from Nanotechnology Characterization Lab (NCL), part of national lab established by FDA, NCI and NIST in a concerted effort to regulate and support nanotechnology in oncology space. ZY’s proprietary delivery platforms currently focus on optimized injectable formulations to deliver oncology therapy to the action sites. The first biodegradable oncology nano-formulation, ZY-010-PNP, completed Pre-IND discussion with the FDA and agreement on 505b(2) regulatory pathway was achieved. Further, the isotope labeling human plasma In vitro study as well as canine pharmacokinetic study conducted by NCL suggest a unique drug releasing profile in comparison to the benchmark brands suggesting enhanced the therapeutic effect with lower safety concern. The active targeting delivery nanomedicine ZY-012-CNP for prostate cancer is in preclinic development and scheduled to file Pre-IND application in 2021. Additional products are in encapsulation feasibility studies including targeting dry eye disease and other solid tumors. The target indications cover majority of solid tumors, including but not limited to TNBC, Ovarian Cancer and mCPRC, of which xenograft in vivo models have proved the drug efficacy.
ZY has developed multiple platform technologies and related patents were filed to protect global rights. The key platform patent was awarded by USPTO in 2019. Additional patents on individual product will be filed to protect the exclusive rights. This layered IP strategy ensures a long patent life for future product.
Located in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, ZY Therapeutics has an interdisciplinary R&D team and 4,500+ sf lab space right in the heart of the southeast bio-hub. Co-founder and CEO Dr. Jian Bao has 18 years’ experience in pharmaceutical development, from discovery to clinical development. She received PhD from University of Pittsburgh and B.S. from Beijing University, both in Chemistry. The core team has a combined decades of pharmaceutical product development experience, with veteran cross-functional team leaders. ZY has assembled an advisor board that consists of world class experts in drug delivery and oncologists from both academia and industry.
ZY Therapeutics is actively seeking funding and collaboration to further develop our platform technologies and promising candidates. We look forward to taking our nano-formulations to clinic in 2021 and beyond.

A human-genetics driven next generation immunity-oncology company

Contract regulatory and clinical research services, U.S. HQ with satellite offices in Taiwan and Europe.
FDA, EMA, etc. worldwide regulatory approval services for drugs, devices, and diagnostics.
Worldwide clinical testing for safety and efficacy

Aequor discovered a new genus and several new species of marine microbes that produce “green,” non-toxic chemicals that target Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and fungi, and uniquely remove biofilm in minutes and prevent biofilm formation for long periods of time. They kill the antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria and fungi alone and as "potentiators" of very low doses (sub-MIC) of otherwise ineffective antibiotics, including Penicillin, to kill the AMR "Superbug" pathogens.
Biofilm is the first resistance response of microorganisms to protect themselves against environmental stresses and is associated with most infections and diseases. Removal of biofilm by surface scraping, UV, heat, biocides and antibiotics, etc. signal to the underlying microorganisms when and how fast to build a thicker biofilm shield.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) associate biofilm with 90% of hospital-acquired infections, such as those caused by contamination on indwelling medical devices, ventilators, and water and air systems. The CDC recently reported that 20% of U.S. COVID deaths were due to these secondary infections. Additional life-threatening infections are increasingly traced to biofilm in air and water systems in institutional and commercial buildings and homes. For example, Legionnaire’s Disease, which claimed 17 lives, was traced to biofilm in a hotel’s air conditioners that became aerosolized and inhaled. It is no coincidence that every pathogen on the CDC and WHO lists of urgent threats, pandemic threats, and bioterrorist threats is a biofilm-former. Every drug-resistant “Superbug” strain is a biofilm-former and is considered incurable. Additionally, several microbial species are captures in the same biofilm, increasing the incidence of horizontal gene transfer (Li et al., 2001; Angles et al., 1993; Dunny et al., 1995) and spawning the emergence of new antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) strains.
There are few remedies for biofilm. Physical removal (sterilization, scraping, UV) works for a short-term (e.g., biofilm was recorded on a titanium plate within 30 seconds of sterilization). Biocides (antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials, and antibiotics) are designed to kill free-floating (planktonic), actively growing microorganisms, and the dose of needed to disrupt a biofilm is approximately 1000x the concentrations that are effective against planktonic bacteria (Raffa et al., 2003), which is a dose that is lethal to humans. The overuse of biocides and antibiotics has contributed to the emergence of the AMR Superbugs – and left a cumulative and persistent environmental footprint. Natural antimicrobials, such as silver and other metals, are expensive and eventually trigger the formation of thicker biofilm, resulting in the loss of efficacy over time.

CUBIC is the ultimate platform for emerging and growing companies seeking to expand their market to China or establish a business presence in China through various services and programs fitting every clients' needs and stage. When vacationing abroad, your best guide is a native, and business is no different. As CUBIC is owned by one of the largest Chinese incubator Thinkzone, you can be confident that you will be benefiting from one of the most extensive and influential networks in China.

Aphios®, which means “virus-free” in Greek, is an emerging growth biotechnology company developing green enabling technology platforms for improving drug discovery and manufacturing, nanotechnology drug delivery and pathogenic drug safety in an environmentally-sustainable manner, and enhanced therapeutics for the treatment of infectious diseases, CNS disorders, cancers and supportive care.

Our lead product is Zindol® which has successfully completed a Phase 2/3 clinical trial as an adjuvant to conventional 5-HT3 anti-emetics in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Other clinical products under development are APH-0812 for HIV latency and APH-1104 for Alzheimer’s disease. We have several preclinical leads in development for prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, cancer pain and infectious diseases.

Our lead platform is CFI™ for the manufacture of virus-free biologics such as convalescent COVID-19 plasma, human plasma proteins and monoclonal antibodies as well as viral vaccines against influenza. Our drug discover discovery platform is being harnessed to develop antiviral therapeutics against the novel coronavirus and our nanotechnology platforms are being used to improve the delivery of HIV latency and Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics.

We are raising capital to conduct pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Zindol® for CINV to complete clinical development of Zindol and file an NDA with the FDA. In subsequent financings, which will include an IPO, we plan to raise an additional capital to commercialize Zindol® for CINV and develop other indications.