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China Medical City (Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone) is located in Taizhou, an importent city in the Yangtze River Delta. China Medical city covers 30 km2 according its plan,consisting of functional zones of Scientific Research and Development, Manufacting,Exhibition and Trade, Helthcare, Education and Teaching, and Comprehensive Supporting. As the first national level life science hi-tech park, CMC has cooperated with over 70 famous life sicense research and development institutes and over 1300 companies.

The Telocyte Mission:
The use of innovative advanced regenerative cell and gene therapies to reset the cell senescence that underlies and defines the "aging process". Cell senescence instigates a cascade of pathology that causes age- related disease, as our telomeres shorten and modulate the changing pattern of gene expression – the epigenetic signalling information – in aging cells. This is the fundamental problem of aging and age-related disease. To be effective, national healthcare systems need to support the ability to maintain normal cell function as we age, both preventing age-related disease and lowering healthcare costs
Our first clinical target is Alzheimer’s disease.

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TRACTIVUS is a company derived from the research group GEMAT (IQS-Ramón Llull University) and IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), located in Barcelona. We are an innovative company with expertise in antibacterial coatings, easy to be implemented on a wide range of medical devices.

PHOBOSTech™ technology have been developed over the years in Tractivus SL as a solution to the current problems of medical devices. Our cost-effective patented technology allows to create nanostructures on the surface, preventing bacteria attachment and, therefore, bacteria colonization. As a result our devices show higher lifetime, lower associated costs, and no post-implantation problems without adverse effect on the patients.

Tractivus SL combines the experience of the research groups and a unique solution designed to root out the colonization of the devices through a micro- and nano-structured coating that protects the device from adhesion and bacterial colonization. The team has worked on all aspects of the development: material selection, regulatory strategy, risk reduction, clinical trials, partners, stakeholders... aiming to maximize the success of both the project and the investors.

Trove is a semi-virtual biotech start-up located in Rockville, Maryland, USA, developing an advanced biologic asset and seeking funding and partners to conduct clinical trials in respiratory disease. We have data and drug supply on our lead, clinical-stage biologic asset to support up to 3 clinical trials in different respiratory conditions (2 x Phase 1b/2a in COVID and lung transplant; and 1 x Phase 2 in chronic sinusitis). Our biologic, called Therabron, is a replacement for a normally abundant native protein that is deficient in our targeted indications. Replacement therapies have a high approval rate with FDA (>70%) and patients with genetic deficiencies can be selected in some trials to increase our chances of demonstrating efficacy. Therabron was safe in 3 early studies. At present, the quickest path to an approval is likely an Emergency Use Authorization in severe COVID-19 patients, so we're looking for an initial $2M seed/Series A round to fund a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial then need another $16M to produce more drug and perform a convincing Phase 2 trial. We are already talking to several potential corporate partners, have signed one CDA with a top 5 pharma, and a relatively small amount of investment in clinical proof of concept demonstrations will attract at least one partner. Once clinical POC is established in targeted indications, we plan to exit via sale/acquisition or out-license. Our markets are large (3 products x >$1B each US) and deal comps in the respiratory space are $250M each and up. We can maximize our ROI by out-licensing the first indication and re-investing upfront license payment proceeds to advance the drug in further indications, depending on what happens in each field/indication and what we (management team and investors) decide to do.