Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies AEBI Ltd Israel

AEBi was established in the year 2000, and has been managed since then based on the idea that the ability to manipulate and design peptides has vastly superior advantages to many, if not any, existing and trajectory technologies of drug development. This idea is valid today as well.The basic idea is that we do not require a natural lead or a sequence (usually coming from the academia or other research) which are either not strong enough or not specific enough and difficult to manipulate in order to create a drug.
An artificial high complexity pool, representing a broad spectrum of  possibilities, manipulated by our technology, will provide the best possible solution. Such a  solution  will not be hindered or blocked by natural interactions and will be very specific to the problem.
AEBi, a development-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovery and development of therapeutic peptides, has developed a combinatorial biology screening platform technology (IP protected).
The major advantage is that it can be used not only to find binders to known targets, but to select the best functional molecules among them. AEBi's platform is very flexible, exploiting combinatorial biology to discover new and better lead compounds to disease targets.

Our Breakthrough SoAP Platform:
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Our platform provides functional leads to very difficult targets (functional leads - agonist, antagonist, inhibitor, etc.), not merely those that best bind with the target.

Moreover, it allows us to develop drugs to many illnesses, among them CANCER and COVID19, and is expected to transform the drug discovery R&D phase by significantly reducing the attrition rate of new drug candidates.
This Breakthrough technology generates very specific lead compounds with greater functionality and improved pharmacological properties. Such lead Compounds will allow more effective drugs and fewer side effects. The need for such technology is acute and pressing for many reasons. The sole external requirement in the screening process is a Defined Target (usually an illness-related protein).

MuTaTo: our Multiple Targeted Comprehensive Cancer Therapy
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This new cancer treatment is a personalized medicine concept, that can be also turned into a "shelf product". The main principal of it is using multiple targeting peptides connected together with a toxin. The main advantage of it is that it would lower the probability of the targeted cancer cells to develop drug-resistance due to mutations they possess, and at the same time would lower adverse effects due to avidity effect. Each cancer patient would receive a specific drug perfectly suited to his/her cancer, based on the expression profile of receptors on the outer membrane of their cancer cells. This therapy's construct production is easy and rapid. Therefore, the production cost would not be as expensive as with other biological drugs, or other sophisticated cancer treatments.
MuTaTo our Multiple Targeted Safe Cancer Therapy is DIFFERENT and UNIQUE because:
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1- It is EFFECTIVE on almost all types of CANCERS because we will develop a MuTaTo molecule for every type of cancers.
2- it is SAFE on healthy cells and DOESN'T cause any suffering to patients.
3- unlike other cancer therapies that attack cancer from only one or 2 targets at most , MuTaTo is DIFFERENT because it attacks cancer from at least 3 targets so that cancer DOESN'T metastasize nor develop drug resistance.
4- MuTaTo can treat almost all types of cancers even rare one and is effective on all cancer stages even terminal ones.
5- our MuTaTo is so versatile it can be:
a) used as personalized Cancer therapy where each cancer patient would receive a specific drug perfectly suited to his/her cancer, based on the expression profile of receptors on the outer membrane of their cancer cells.
b) or it can be mass produced as a "shelf Product - Oncolytic Drug" to treat different cancers with different indications, so we will have not just one MuTaTo Drug, but a COMPLETE FAMILY OF MuTaTo DRUGS, to treat almost all types and indications of Cancers , from all stages, even rare and Terminal cancers.

Our MUTATO Cancer treatment is PATENTED,
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2018061004A1/en?inventor=Ilan+morad&oq=Ilan+morad

Our PLATFORM is patented
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2007010525A3/en?inventor=Ilan+morad&oq=Ilan+morad

Our concept is peer approved and we have proof of concept, and published in the prestigious Cancer Therapy Magazine
https://m.scirp.org/papers/98400

-Chinese Journals have written about our concept including MyBioGate
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NYjbJDgdBOtxsAztKr7wMw
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here is one article about us in another journal:
https://www.myzaker.com/article/5f88ec9f32ce40ea2900000a
Website:
www.aebi-bio.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2000
Stock Market and Ticker/Symbol/Number
not listed because we are private company
Please specify your partnering goal
big pharma, and we are open to other options too.
Funding Status
pre-clinical round of funding
Now raising (In USD)
10 million USD
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
-partnering with Chinese pharmaceutical companies -partnering with Chinese manufacturers especially in the field of peptides and drug manufacturing. -launching our drugs from China (being China Based).
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
Patents|METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING A PEPTIDE HAVING AN INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTION WITH A TARGET OF INTEREST|developing drugs to many illnesses including CANCER AND COVID19|preclinical|not yet
Assets Information 2
patents|THERAPEUTIC MULTI-TARGETING CONSTRUCTS AND USES THEREOF|most types and stages of Cancer|preclinical|not yet
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Investment Focus
private equity but we are open to other options.
Suma Khazmo
Spokesperson and Investment Consultant 
Functionality

Aequor, Inc. United States

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.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2015
Please specify your partnering goal
Scale up synthesis of novel molecules for new drug development
Funding Status
Raised $1.2M cash; $8M grants; $18M Award from NIH and DOD to pay for pre-clinical trials once sufficient quantities of up to 9 new drug candidates is achieved.
Now raising (In USD)
$5M
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Aequor seeks a collaboration with a chemical company with the expertise in natural marine products to confirm the structure of the primary natural molecule that Aequor discovered and to scale up novel analogs as new drug candidates via chemical synthesis. This collaboration would ideally be structured as a license of the source marine products and chemicals produced by them as new drug candidates to kill he antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial and fungi and prevent their spread. Thereafter, Aequor will seek a licensee of its new drug candidates for AMR targets. The unmet need for therapeutics and prophylactics is high. In 2019, 2.7 million people died from AMR infection and disease.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
A2001|small molecule|antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and fungi|Pre-clinical|n/a
Assets Information 2
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Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Cynthia Buzell
CEO 
Functionality

Celumigen Pharmaceuticals United States

Celumigen Pharmaceuticals is a California- headquartered seed stage specialty pharmaceutical company in dermatology focused on developing the first FDA-approved topical prescription immunotherapeutic drug for Cutaneous viral warts; a widespread global disease affecting greater than 500MM people in China, and 78% of the world's population. The global markets have seen no approved prescription therapies for HPV, Common warts and no therapies that eradicate this disease on the market or in the pipeline-- we plan to capture and grow this lucrative market. Our therapeutic is a likely 505 (b) 2 FDA designated drug. Our leadership, development and clinical team is a group of world class leaders with deep industry knowledge and unparalleled domain expertise. We have raised a seed round led by industry- leading investors which funded a Proof of Concept study with very positive confirmatory results and data to support our Phases I and Phase II. We are now seeking strategic partnership with a company seeking to support drug development to enhance existing dermatology drug asset portfolios or fund our program through venture capital / partnership.
Website:
celumigen.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Looking for
Please specify your partnering goal
Strategic investment/ partnership
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
The Chinese market for our therapeutics pipeline is among the largest and most promising in the world. Greater than 500 Million Chinese people suffer from Cutaneous viral warts, with no approved therapies and none that eradicate warts. We plan on capturing this market and growing in the Chinese pharmaceutical market, and from there, growing into the rest of the world. China represents a vital vantage point to penetrate markets that may not be available to US based companies. Our goal to benefit with a strategic partner based in China would be to develop our existing drug target, and widening our asset portfolio in topical drugs in dermatology in order to create a Chinese based company with an exceptional specialty pharmaceutical dermatology asset portfolio.
Mr. Jake Townsend
CEO 

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

Far East Bio-Tec. Co., Ltd

FEBICO's current major development of new drug focuses on the treatment of global emerging infectious diseases and hepatitis-related diseases.

1.  Influenza

FEBICO’s Apomivir obtained the approval of US (IND120123) and Taiwan INDs application in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In previous experiments, FB-1603, the active pharmaceutical ingredient of Apomivir, was found to inhibit a variety of viruses in cellular experiments, including influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2, influenza B, novel influenza viruses (2009), and influenza viruses resistant to tamiflu. Animal experiments have shown oral administration of FB-1603 can effectively reduce the mortality rate of mice caused by influenza A. Apomivir® is designed as oral capsule and given to patients infected with influenza within 48 hours of confirmed infection. The primary outcome measures the time reaching afebrile compared to the control group.

2. COVID-19 (SARs-CoV-2)

The new coronavirus hit the world in 2020, causing tens of millions infections and millions of deaths. In addition to the typical clinical pathology includes respiratory symptoms, severe patients will progress to severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or multiple organ failure, shock or even death. Therefore, the threat is quite big.FB-1603 has been proven in cellular and animal experiments to effectively reduce inflammation and accelerate the healing of scarred tissues. It has also been found in cellular experiments to inhibit pulmonary fibrosis. Because FB-1603 is the active pharmaceutical ingredient of Apomivir. Previous IND 120123 documents and new cellular data against COVID-19 were used to file a pre-IND (151566).

3. Treat liver damage

Current available treatments for liver cancer include surgical resection, liver transplantation, local destruction therapy, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), chemotherapy and targeted therapy. However, according to clinical literature statistics, about 10% of patients treated with surgical resection or TACE will have postoperative complications such as deterioration of liver function (increased AST/ALT), jaundice, liver failure, and leads to 5% mortality rate. However, there are no effective preventive measures or therapeutic drugs to reduce the incidence of postoperative liver injury. In early phase of clinical trials, it has been observed that FB-1603 help the improvement of patients' liver function after hepatectomy or chemoembolization therapy.

4. Treat Herpes Virus

Herpes virus is a common infectious virus. Depending on the type of virus, it can cause redness and swelling of the skin on the lips or external genitals, resulting in blisters and ulcers, causing stinging and discomfort. Once infected with the herpes virus, the virus will be permanently latent in the human ganglion, and will repeatedly attack when the immune system is weakened. FB1706 has been proven in cellular study to effectively inhibit herpes type 1 and type 2 viruses with a very low dose, and some data show that topical application can shorten the course of the individual’s disease and accelerate the recovery time. The animal module for the herpes virus is currently under establishment. We expect to complete the animal studies before June 2021 and complete documentation of toxicology study and CMC (Chemistry, manufacturing, and control) report.

5. Liver fibrosis treatment

In the past, liver disease was considered a national disease in Asian community. So far, about 10,000 people in Taiwan are diagnosed with liver cancer and 7,700 people die from liver cancer every year. It still ranks as third in cancer incidence and second in mortality. Therefore, chronic liver disease cannot be underestimated. A familiar trilogy is liver inflammation, cirrhosis, and finally liver cancer.

The major cause is that when liver cells are damaged for a long time, liver tissue is formed into fibrosis, leads to hardening of liver, i.e. cirrhosis. Therefore, the key to treatment is to slow down the formation of fibrosis. Currently there is no approved drug to treat liver fibrosis in the world. FB-1807 has been observed in early phase of clinical trials to effectively reduce the liver fibrosis index of liver cancer patients. Preclinical study includes identification of active ingredient and animal studies are currently underway.

 6. Cure Hepatitis B

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still an important issue of global health, causing nearly one million people die every year from major complications of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. In recent years, the natural history of HBV and the replication mechanism have been clearly studied. Therefore, it is very important to know how to completely eliminate the virus to prevent viral infection. Although many different drugs have been developed to treat HBV, the long-term use of existing drugs is a heavy burden but still cannot achieve a complete cure. Therefore, a new generation of anti-viral medication is still needed.

FB-1808 has been observed in early clinical trials with significant anti-virus effects. We have confirmed the active ingredient and mechanism study is still ongoing.

Website:
www.febico.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
1990
Please specify your partnering goal
JV or co-development
Funding Status
self-funding
Now raising (In USD)
20 mil
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Slides Deck
(pptx, 321.85KB)
Nick Cheh
Director of BD 
Functionality

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

MSL Pharma Israel

MSL Pharma is an early-stage pharma company that performs ideation, analysis and identification of the underlying pathological pathways to determine how to treat diseases. The Company holds exclusive licenses from the Hebrew University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. There are data, patents and publications concerning the technologies.

As an early-stage company, in order to reduce overhead costs, we effectively act as the project manager – we plan the assays and subcontract the early development stages to university labs, and the later stages to CROs that specialize in the different fields. The Company monitors the results, determines next steps and fundraises for the next phases of development. We believe that working with leading experts at CROs is critical for success.

The Company has licenses for platform technologies which are progressing to several different projects; as such it is planning to out-license at various stages of development.

Synthesis of cyclic peptides which are peptidomimetics
MSL Pharma has the capability to identify “active regions” of proteins and peptides, to isolate them and to turn them into cyclic peptides which are selective for the desired receptors and stable, thereby preventing off-target activation and adverse effects (see Asset, Table 1).

Drug delivery systems for peptides and other molecules
MSL Pharma has two technologies for drug delivery (see Mode of Delivery, Table 1) that achieve unprecedented bioavailability:
1. Lipophilic prodrug charge masking (LPCM) technology for the oral delivery of peptides. This technology makes a chemical modification in a peptide to be converted to oral delivery, to produce a prodrug of this peptide. This causes it to be absorbed through the intestinal cell and once the prodrug enters the blood stream, it converts back to the original peptide. Typically, the Pgp Efflux system limits the prodrug absorption; we have overcome this with an approved self-assembling PNL (pro-nano liposphere) encapsulation system, itself a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS), which increases prodrug solubility and inhibits the Pgp Efflux system.

2. A novel nanoparticle formulation called AmyloLipid Nanovesicles which is constructed of natural materials and therefore safe ,biodegradable and has an advantage for the delivery of peptides. This technology is used also for the delivery of other molecules, can be used for nose-to-brain, sublingual, transdermal and probably also oral delivery, and can be applied to our assets (Table 1) or existing assets (Table 2).

A novel smart multi-armed linker for targeted drug delivery
Our linker can be used for peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs), antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and nanoparticle-drug conjugates (NDCs). Our linker releases the payload (chemotherapeutic drug or fluorescent) only in the tumor cells and can bind up to three payloads (see Table 3). We have demonstrated that using two or three different drug payloads kills the tumor cells more potently and with less drug resistance developing.

Discovery of novel peptides for peptide-drug conjugates
We have technologies to synthesize novel peptides which will bind to receptors overexpressed in certain tumors so that we will be able to use them for synthesizing peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) to diagnose and treat different tumors. We already have at our disposal peptides that bind to the five different somatostatin receptors (overexpressed in pancreatic, gallbladder, breast, ovary, prostate, melanoma, lymphoma, glioblastoma, colon and non-small-cell lung tumors) and to certain integrin receptors (overexpressed in tumors such as breast, glioblastoma, leukemic cells). 
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2012
Please specify your partnering goal
Fundraising Collaborating with a unuversity or reaearch organisation Doing licensing agreements Doing technology ttransfer agreements
Funding Status
Seed
Now raising (In USD)
1,000,000
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Fundraising Collaborating with a unuversity or reaearch organisation Doing licensing agreements Doing technology ttransfer agreements
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
backtide G|A Melanocortin 4 & 5 agonist|Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Sexual Dysfunction|Seed|
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Slides Deck
(pptx, 3.25MB)
Dr Yarom Cohen
Dr Yarom Cohen
LinkedIn logo CEO 
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

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group China

We are rapidly transitioning to an innovation and R&D driven Pharmaceutical company, leveraging our leading manufacturing and commercial capabilities to achieve our mission of “providing today' s patients with medicines of the future“ We have been continuously recognized as one of the “Top 10 Innovative Pharmaceutical Enterprises in China” 1 and “Top 100 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Enterprises of China”

Wayne Yin
BD Director 
Functionality