AnGes, Inc. Japan

AnGes is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development and commercialization of gene-based medicines including gene therapy, oligonucleotide drugs and DNA vaccines.
The company's lead product is Collategene for critical limb ischemia (CLI), the severest form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), for which obtained conditional approval in Japan on March 2019. Collategene is a gene therapy product utilizing therapeutic angiogenesis by hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene expression. Our second project is NF-kB decoy oligonucleotide, for which a phase 1b study for low back pain commenced in February 2018 in the US. AnGes also conducting a phase I/II study for DNA vaccine for the treatment of hypertension.
We are also developing a DNA vaccine for COVID-19 which we plan to start Phase 3 from early next year.
Website:
www.anges.co.jp
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
1999
Stock Market and Ticker/Symbol/Number
TSE: 4563
Please specify your partnering goal
We would like to find partners for our assets as well as to find interesting assets from Chinese companies.
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
To find strategic partners in China so that we can maximize the value of our asset and also find interesting assets coming from Chinese biotech companies.
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
Collategene|HGF gene therapy|Critical Limb Ischemia|Marketed|Japan, USA, Israel, Turkey
Assets Information 2
NFkB Decoy|Decoy Oligonucleotide|Low Back Pain|Phase 2|
Assets Information 3
Ang2 DNA vaccine|DNA vaccine|Hypertension|Phase 2|
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Masaki Nakanishi
Director, Business Development 
Functionality

Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai China

For more than 120 years, the Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) has been helping Canadian companies navigate international markets. Our trade commissioners in more than 160 cities worldwide can provide you with key business insights and access to an unbeatable network of international contacts. The TCS provides Canadian businesses and organizations with tailored advice to help them enter new markets outside of Canada.
Lulu Mi
Life Sciences Trade Commissioner 
Functionality
Dr Kshitij Soni
LinkedIn logo CEO 
Functionality

Dawn Biopharmaceuticals Inc. United States

Dawn Biopharmaceuticals Inc (DBI) is a US firm founded by Gordon Lee, MD (UK MBChB), MBA (Wharton) who has access to a proprietary cell-based immunotherapeutic product for clinical development in the US. The product is a multivalent cancer therapy that integrates multiple anti-cancer mechanisms in one modifiable platform. The product is tumor-homing, disables the local tumor defenses and expresses a therapeutic cytokine in the cancer - but not systemically.

(Please note that the website is pending.)

Website:
dawnbio.net
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2020
Please specify your partnering goal
Strategic pharmaceutical or capital partner to accompany into Pre-IND and clinical trials.
Funding Status
Initial round
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Open to partnerships with Chinese firms that have a proprietary small molecule or biodrug that could be encoded into our platform with the benefits of wider scope of applications, tumor-centric molecular therapeutic delivery, avoidance of peripheral (extra tumoral) actions and effects, and vectoring of high payload(s) for multi-arming.
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Gordon Lee
Founder 
Functionality

GlycoSeLect Ltd Ireland

Our company develops and manufactures technology and applications for glycoprotein separation and analysis. We are focussed on the biopharmaceutical industry. We also have customers in medical diagnostic and cosmetic companies.
Our facility is based on the campus of Dublin City University in Ireland.
We have developed an extensive network of contacts not only customers but also opinion leaders in glybiology.

Website:
GlycoSeLect Ltd
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2013
Please specify your partnering goal
Joint venture to develop downstream processing applications
Funding Status
Series A
Now raising (In USD)
900,000
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Seek local partner to establish glycobiology specialist company supplying better glycoprotein product analysis and manufacturing technology with support for application development.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
RPL lectins for glycoprotein product analysis & manufacturing applications|Glycan specific proteins for use in detecting and separating glycoproteins|Product analysis and manufacturing, especially vaccines and mAbs.|Worldwide available
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Slides Deck
(pdf, 164.08KB)
Robert Dunne
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

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 
Functionality

Ping Rawson United States

Dyadic International, Inc. is a global biotechnology company focused on improving and applying its proprietary C1 gene expression platform, based on a patented and proprietary genetically modified strain of the fungus Thermothelomyces heterothallica (formerly Myceliophthora thermophila), to address opportunities in the human and animal health markets. C1 is a potentially game-changing biopharmaceutical gene expression platform that may help bring biologic vaccines, drugs and other biologic products to market faster and more efficiently than existing expression platforms, such as Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, E. coli, yeast and baculovirus in greater volumes, at lower cost and with new properties that can improve access and cost to patients and the healthcare system.

Year of foundation
1979
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Looking for business partners and collaborations in China.
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Ping Rawson CFO 
Functionality

Rius Medical UG (Haftungsbeschränkt) Germany

About Rius Medical: Rius Medical is designing and developing a new generation of Commercial cell therapies positioned at the crossroads of two high-potential programs: (1.) genetically engineering red blood cells for an entirely new class of cellular medicines and (2.) potent NK-cell therapy products. Due to their mechanism of action, engineered red blood cells demonstrated treatments for wide range of patients from starving cancer cells to targeting autoimmune diseases. Building on exceptional progress in cell therapies, Rius Medical is in a unique position to offer Third-Generation red blood cells for drug delivery that addresses Rare Diseases, Oncology and Autoimmune Diseases like type 1 diabetes! Furthermore, harnessing the unique power of natural killer (NK) cells enables the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases such as Influenza virus or SARS-Coronavirus (i.e. COVID-19 pandemic). That’s right, NK-cells as vaccine delivery NOT for antibodies but for “memory T cells” activation!
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Looking for
Please specify your partnering goal
Bring together technology & funds for improving “China Focus” healthcare situation on an equal basis.
Funding Status
Seeking investors for Series A
Now raising (In USD)
1,665,454 USD
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Rius Medical unique position as CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) is not limited to drug delivery. Yes, drug delivery programs bring EUR 130 million revenue sooner than “Rius Medical’s blood transfusion” program. However, Rius Medical’s path to becoming a market leader in healthcare in promoting excellence, innovation and good business practices, is driven by its “blood transfusion” program. The Plan in China is local Jobs in China for manufacturing of stem cells derived “blood transfusion” products. Also drug delivery via "Third-Generation red blood cells for drug delivery" that addresses Rare Diseases, Oncology and Autoimmune Diseases like type 1 diabetes, is region-specific; as in Europe, USA and China regions due to ABO blood group and other antigens being region-specific!
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
eRBC|Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery|Oncology|Prototype Assembly|N/A
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Mr Denis Demarais
Mr Denis Demarais
LinkedIn logo Founder and CEO 
Functionality