HEC Pharm China

HEC Pharm is the pharmaceutical subsidiaries of HEC Group. There has been a public company listed in Hong Kong in HEC Pharm, and another company will be listed in Shanghai next year.

HEC Pharm focuses on the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals for the therapeutics of anti-infectious diseases, metabolism disorders and oncology. We are hunting for the opportunities of co-development and in-license of the candidates with the potential therapeutics in previous fields.
Website:
www.hec.cn
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Please specify your partnering goal
out-license, in-license and co-development opportunities hunting
Headquartner in China
Lisha Chen
Senior Business Development Manager 
Functionality

Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization China

Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization is an independent nonprofit organization (Charities exempted from tax under Section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance) with the goal to promote best practice, raise awareness across the biotechnology industry while providing added value benefits to its members, whether they are students, researchers, entrepreneurs, industry bodies, public or private sector representatives.

Founded by pioneering scientists with extensive life science backgrounds and multi-cultural experience in research and development, engineering and business. Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization aims to establish and facilitate a worldwide platform for the Hong Kong biotech industry, promote awareness, encouraging and enabling international collaboration. We also provide informed opinion and technical advice to government bodies, healthcare institutions and the general public.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2010
Funding Status
Seeking for sponsorship or partnership for BIOHK2021
Headquartner in China
Chris Chow
Sales Manager 
Functionality

i3 Consult France

We are an information-based consulting, integration and IT outsourcing service entity committed to providing premium strategic marketing, financial and operational management solutions for healthcare, pharmaceutical and other life science organisations.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2002
Funding Status
Non-funding status - Profit based organisation
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
The defining characteristic of COVID era pharma and healthcare is the rise of all things digital. A critical mass of companies had been experimenting with digital pilots for some time, some more advanced and larger than others. All saw a significant boost in digital activities during the COVID-19 crisis. This included large scale webinars to engage Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), disease education programs on a scale not seen before, all-digital new medicine launches, etc. Digital has arrived and is here to stay. Yet, offline has not yet disappeared and will continue to play an essential role. The real answer going forward will be found in the ability of i3 Consult to implement customer engagement hybrid models that build on offline and online activities to offer a true omnichannel engagement model to clients in China. We see the need to develop these opportunities in six (6) niche areas in China: 1) To strengthen retail KA management with distributors and pharmacies in China 2) Enhance commercial capabilities on broad market and retail channel 3) Better patient education to lead trend of prescription outflow from hospitals and retail channels 4) Provide HCP consultation support onsite for professional medical service 5) Improve drug availability through better collaboration and coverage with pharmacies in China 6) Enhance supply chain support by adding cold-chain capability and lower tier market coverage in China
Wallace Macindoe
CEO & Founder 

ICBCI China

Investment Bank
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Please specify your partnering goal
Start up
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Medtech Development Stage
Lu Zhang
VP 

iNNOGING Medical Israel

iNNOGING Medical - Remote and offline ultrasound image analysis solution

Ultrasound is a real-time examination and very much operator dependent.
Majority of ultrasound scans are done by technicians and afterwards diagnosed off-line by the expert without the presence of the patient. A major drawback is that the radiologist who determines the diagnoses is not the person who performs the ultrasound scan; hence this workflow might lead to errors and worse to misdiagnoses.
iNNOGING is developing a technology that will provide the radiologists a remote and off-line tool to inspect areas of interest, based on recorded ultrasound scans. Allowing navigation like in real time as if the patient is there with the doctor, while all possible information (any plane) of an organ is visible, even information that was not presented in the original scan.

In addition to the above, we have recently launched an affordable SaaS based Ultrasound Simulator.
Website:
www.innoging.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2018
Looking for
Funding Status
Seed round done, going to A-Round now
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We would like to do one of our first clinical trials in China. to aqcuire a CFDA. The Chinese market is growing tremendously and we think it should be the main target for us.
Yehiel Polatov
Co-Founder EVP Business Development 
Functionality

Inorbit Therapeutics ab Sweden

InorbitTX is a virtual drug discovery and development company focussed on the treatment of fatty liver diseases NAFLD / NASH. Its lead project, the FXR agonist IOT022 is currently in late pre-clinical testing. IOT022 differentiates very well from competitor compounds, as it mitigates the risk for pruritus and for drug induced liver injury, seen with competitors. It gives IOT022 an excellent best-in-class opportunity. We look for funding to complete for IND and for Phase I. We also look for partnering for the Chinese / Asian market.

Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2015
Please specify your partnering goal
We look for investors and / or alliance partners for the global or greater Chinese / Asian market
Funding Status
We are currently funded by government and private investors
Now raising (In USD)
1.8 M (50% complete) for pre-clinical, followed by a round of 7 - 9 M to fund Phase I
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We are looking for an alliance partner / out licensing to develop IOT022, a well differentiating FXR agonist for NAFLD / NASH, for the Chinese / Asian market.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
IOT022|small molecule|NAFLD / NASH|late pre-clinical|
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Slides Deck
(pdf, 2.43MB)
Bert Benthem
CEO 
Functionality

InvivoSciences Inc. United States

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 Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2001
Please specify your partnering goal
co-development
Funding Status
Series A open
Now raising (In USD)
5 million crunch of 10
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
partner with global pharma
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
NU HEARTTM|ai integrated 3D human tissue pautomated platform and disease models|cardiac, cardio oncology, rare diseases, heart failure, biomarkers, patient stratification tool, and or diagnostic tool|in use|usa
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Ayla Annac
CEO 
Functionality

Israel Foreign Trade Administration China

to promote the business cooperation between Israel and Southwest China
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Please specify your partnering goal
looking for Chinese companies and investors have an interest in IL technologies
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Medtech Development Stage
Kathy Tong
Trade Director 

Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics Inc. (JOT) United States

JOT is a virtual company with its base operation in Jupiter, FL. JOT is in position to quickly come to market with a platform product effective to treat 12 or more indications including Alzheimer’s Disease. The proprietary patented product, JOTROL, is very safe, oral, naturally based and multi-functional. JOTROL will be very effective with high social and economic impact within a reasonable timeframe. Relationships have been developed with scientists at various institutions, such as University of Miami (“UM”), MIT, Harvard, Georgetown University and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, AU. This setup has made it possible to gain access to laboratory work, scientific information, pre-clinical development and scientific expertise in an extremely cost effective and efficient way. JOT will conclude clinical trials by utilizing a contract manufacturer and Clinical Research Organizations, involvement by its scientific advisors as well as support from patient organizations thereby keeping its fixed overhead extremely low for a Biotech company. A Phase I trial is presently ongoing with results expected in Q1,2021. Two Phase II rare disease trials, are expected to be started in H2 of 2021 with possible accelerated approvals from FDA. Partial financing for those are expected to be received from NIH. A Phase II trial in Alzheimer’s is also planned to be executed in parallel. Financing for the Phase I study has been granted by NIA (National Institute of Aging). Financing for a larger Phase II study is also expected to be financed by a NIA consortium (up to $75 million). JOT is prepared to add a commercial organization to market its product in North America while out-licensing marketing and sales operations for the rest of the world.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
Out-license our platform product to a reputable Chinese partner.
Funding Status
Series A
Now raising (In USD)
$15 Million
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Out-license our JOTROL platform product applicable to 12 or more indications.
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
JOTROL|Patented First and Only resveratrol product that can be disease modifying without side effects.|MPS-1, MELAS, Friedreich's ataxia and other ataxias, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease|Phase I completed mid-March|N/A
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Christer Rosen
Chairman & CEO 
Functionality

Kymeris Therapeutics Inc. Canada

Kymeris Therapeutics (Canada) has exlusive license to a ground-breaking cell-based immunotherapeutic product for clinical development in cancer. This multivalent anti-cancer platform integrates multiple mechanisms in one modifiable platform. The product is tumor-homing, disables the local tumor defenses and expresses encoded biodrugs in the cancer - but not systemically.

*  We are seeking partners with small molecule or antibody (or any encodable peptide or protein) that would have an enabling platform compared to intravenous or intratumoral formulations.

*  We are also seeking strategic investors in the platform that has extremely high potential in future products, adaptable against almost any solid cancer.

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The platform can enable, or enhance, additional small molecule, antibody, peptide or cytokine agents.  It is a preclinical late-stage firm that has discovered and developed a First-in-Class immunotherapeutic platform based on non-pathogenic eukaryotes (nucleated cells, non-viral, non-bacterial). Our platform is original with the first scientific paper just published in November 2020 by the Journal of Immunotherapy of Cancer (BMJ), and our first scientific presentation at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the SITC where we presented recent report on a derivative that secreted human IL-15 within tumor, but devoid of serum detection of the cytokine.

The platform would be a paradigm shift from "reductive" (targeted, mono-mechanism) approaches, and can be encoded with additional molecular therapies to more comprehensively face the complex of solid cancer defenses. Encoding any biological agent (small molecule, antibody, antigen, cytokine...), could enable that agent for a wider scope of applications,  enhanced effect and much safer profile.  In addition, the platform shows abscopal effect, an ability to reach tumors after administration from a distance (subcutaneous or mucosal).

The platform has shown the following characteristics:

1. Tumor-tropism / Cancer-agnostic. Homing to tumor occurred in the absence of a cancer antigen marker (TAA or TSA), and may even work in tumors that are not easily "targetable", such as "cold", lacking cancer markers, heterogeneic or mutating tumors. One oncologist remarked, "This turns "cold" tumors "hot" ".The agents have had effect at distance from tumor site when administered subcutaneously or mucosally. 

 2. Tumor-infiltration + TME counteraction. The agents bear a specialized "universal key" to gain entry into mammalian cell in an active process; no specific  receptor needed. In addition, the agents are able to reprogram tolerogenic cells into a state of immune competence i.e. to overcome cancer-induced immune suppression within the tumor.

3. Intra-cancer delivery of any payload/s. Obligate intracellular microbes, the agents infect cancer cells and replicate, expressing encoded biodrugs. The replication continues as long as there is cancer tissue to infect and/or the TME has not been disabled.  Any agents outside of the TME were naturally cleared in under 10 days.

Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
1. Out-licensing/codevelopment to partner, by indication, for China market, 2) Strategic investor
Funding Status
firm is privately held & controlled 99% by founders : approx 7.5 million in $ US equivalent value has been spent
Now raising (In USD)
between $ 5 million - $25 million
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Interested in understanding partnership opportunities for the China market with compatible biotech/pharma companies. Also interested in participation of Chinese VC in our ongoing overall funding needs.
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Investment Focus
Seeking funding to move from pre clinical stage to Phase 1/2 clinical trial
Richard McCrae
President & CEO 
Functionality