Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai China

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Lulu Mi
Life Sciences Trade Commissioner 
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DIMITAR DIMITROV Bulgaria

Micar Innovation is a drug discovery factory. The company has found a niche where it is able to create a large societal impact by improving the quality of life through discovery novel blockbuster drug molecules for a large class of diseases (Pipeline). Micar Innovation focuses on entire drug discovery process using improved structure based insilico drug design from scratch till Preclinical phase with advanced predictions of activity, selectivity and ADMET

Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
Drug Discovery
Funding Status
raising
Now raising (In USD)
2500000
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Investment Focus
Oncology project
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CEO 
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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 
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Mission Bio United States

Mission Bio unlocks the ground truth of cancer through response, relapse, and remission with its Tapestri Platform, powered by single-cell multi-omics. As the first and only to analyze genotype and phenotype simultaneously in single cells, the Tapestri Platform can help unravel the inherent complexity of cancer. The technology discerns key biomarkers to stratify patients more precisely, signal treatment resistance as it begins, and predict relapse for better patient outcomes. Application areas include blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation.

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC), and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have leveraged the Tapestri Platform to support their research for characterizing clonal dynamics in a variety of cancers, identifying minimal residual disease (MRD), and monitoring treatment response and therapy resistance. The company’s award-winning technology is also leveraged by LabCorp and Agios to enable more efficient clinical trials.
Year of foundation
2014
Please specify your partnering goal
We are hoping to identify key commercial opportunities in academic, government, and industry centers. We have local representatives that assist with relationship management, procurement, services, etc.
Headquartner in China
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
Tapestri Platform|The Tapestri Platform is the only system capable of simultaneously providing both genotype and phenotype data from the same cell, across thousands of single cells. With DNA as a foundation, our proprietary two-step microfluidic workflow enables the simultaneous detection of analytes, including SNVs, CNVs, and proteins. Meet the complexity of cancer with true multi-omics analysis.|||
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Zachary Fernandes
Associate Director, Global Channel Development 
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Nodes Advisors AG Switzerland

We are a corporate finance firm committed to advancing the field of Healthcare through advisory,and investments.

We advise and buy-side and sell side corporates and Family offices on investment in Healthcare & life Sciences across Switzerland, Europe and the US.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2018
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We would like to partner with strong Chinese funds who are interested in incubating and investing in European and US early stage companies and facilitate market acess and technology integration in chinese market.
Eliott Harfouche
Partner 
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