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Abalos Therapeutics has harnessed the unique immune stimulation of the arenavirus to develop a novel anti-cancer approach that provides the full breadth of the immune system’s power specifically against cancer cells. Through viral replication within cancer cells, Abalos’ arenavirus-based drug candidates are designed to awake precise immune responses and activate all relevant immune cell types against primary tumors and metastases. Led by experienced biotech entrepreneurs and immunology pioneers, Abalos’ goal is to achieve a quantum leap in immuno-oncology.

Actym Therapeutics is an immunotherapy company that aims to discover and develop attenuated Salmonella Typhimurium strains as a systemic delivery agent to allow for local expression of multiple therapeutic proteins selectively in the tumor microenvironment for the treatment of solid tumor indication(s). Actym's technology platform is designed to harness the body's natural immune system to modify the tumor microenvironment and allows for targeting immune pathways that are intractable using conventional small molecule or antibody-based therapeutics.

eTheRNA immunotherapies NV is a spin-off from the Brussels university 'Vrije Universiteit Brussel' (VUB), Belgium. The company continues the development of its proprietary TriMix mRNA-based immunotherapies for melanoma, breast cancer and infectious diseases. This mRNA-based technology focuses on enhancing and modulating dendritic cells which fulfill a fundamental role in eliciting the human immune response to cancer and infectious diseases.

Imcheck Therapeutics SAS, founded in 2015, is a spin-off from the Institute Paoli Calmettes in Marseilles (France). Developing innovative antibody therapeutics in the field of immuno-oncology, Imcheck Therapeutics translates the pioneering work of Prof. Daniel Olive focussing on novel checkpoint principles directly in the interplay of the innate and adaptive immune response. The team of highly motivated entrepreneurs builds on the break-through developments around PD-1, as well as CTLA-4 specific antibodies to release evasion of tumor cells from immune surveillance. Imcheck Therapeutics will focus on a proprietory group of targets to integrate the power of γδ-T cells (innate) with the of αβ-T cells (adaptive) to significantly improve the response and clinical outcome of modern immunotherapy approaches for hematological and as well as for solid tumor indications.

OncoMyx Therapeutics is developing oncolytic immunotherapies based on the myxoma virus (MYXV) platform to orchestrate an immune response and treat cancer. Successful immuno-oncology (IO) cancer treatment generally requires combination therapy, and oncolytic viruses (OVs) have emerged as a safe and effective IO complement.
Their MYXV platform, spun-out from Arizona State University (ASU), is poised to be a best-in-class OV approach. They have assembled the top OV team around MYXV to advance a pipeline of oncology therapeutics for the benefit of cancer patients.

T3 Pharmaceuticals was founded in May 2015 by Simon Ittig, Christoph Kasper, Marlise Amstutz and Helmut Kessmann as a spin-off of the University of Basel. The team has developed an efficient protein delivery technology that is based on the use of live bacteria. While the technology has diverse applications in research, T3 Pharma has further developed the system to serve as a novel therapeutic to treat solid tumors.

Abexxa Biologics, Inc. is a research-stage bio-pharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing breakthrough antibody-based drugs to its proprietary class of targets designed to revolutionize cancer treatments by providing highly effective targeted therapies. The foundation of the company’s technology is based on more than 25 years’ experience in novel immunotherapy research. AbeXXa is based in Arlington, TX.

Libra Therapeutics is focused on developing novel disease-modifying therapeutics that can restore the cellular balance disrupted in neurodegenerative diseases. These include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease, which are all characterized by cellular disequilibrium caused by the production and decreased clearance of neurotoxic proteins. The company’s therapeutic platform is uniquely positioned to discover and develop small molecule drugs with distinct molecular approaches that can 1) increase autophagy to more rapidly clear toxic proteins and 2) attenuate the production of neurotoxic proteins.

Metabomed Ltd. is an Israeli based newly created biotech company focused on the identifications of novel targets in the field of cancer metabolism. Based on its proprietary interdisciplinary target identification platform, Metabomed’s approach has great potential to identify new targets that form a synthetic lethal gene pair with metabolic genes inactivated in cancer cells. Inhibition of these targets results in toxic effects specific to cancer cells, with potential sparing of normal cells. The company will subsequently focus on the discovery of novel small molecule drugs directed against such targets.

NBE Therapeutics GmbH is a Basel, Switzerland, based privately held biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative antibody based drugs, with an initial focus on the development of "next-generation" antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). NBE Therapeutics has developed potent antibody discovery and specific drug conjugation technologies which will allow NBE Therapeutics to efficiently develop First- and Best-In-Class product candidates to fight cancer.

Rgenta is developing a pipeline of oral, small-molecule RNA-targeting medicines with an initial focus on oncology and neurological disorders. The company’s proprietary platform mines the massive genomics data to identify targetable RNA processing events and design small-molecule glues to modulate the interactions among the spliceosome, regulatory proteins, and RNAs. Rgenta’s lead programs and unique approach are unlocking the therapeutic potential of historically undruggable targets in human diseases.

Founded in 2019, Tacalyx GmbH is a spin-off out of the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. The Department of Biomolecular Systems led by Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger pioneered the chemical synthesis of ultrapure cancer-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACA) for the generation of high-affinity and selective antibody scaffolds. Tacalyx will profile the antibody panels for functional modulation of tumor cells and/or immune cells in the tumor micro-environment. Antibodies with functional modulating, as well as drug like properties will be developed for towards clinical testing in various solid tumor indications.

T-knife GmbH is a spin-off of the Max-Delbrück-Center (MDC) founded in 2015 by Prof. Thomas Blankenstein. Derived from T-knife’s proprietary Humanized TCR Mice, the Berlin-based Biotech company develops T cell receptors (TCR) for adoptive T cell therapy. The Humanized TCR mice carry the entire human TCRαβ gene loci and recombine a broad repertoire of fully human TCRs. In addition, the transgenic expression of human HLA molecules allows ‘human-like’ presentation of antigens via the transgenic HLA to the fully human TCRs. This technology allows highly efficient generation and selection of TCRs for virtually any human tumor antigen. Since the mouse immune system is not tolerant to most human cancer antigens the obtained TCRs are expected to show optimal affinity for cancer therapy. The company has a broad expertise in tumor target selection, TCR sequence isolation and optimization, transgenic TCR expression and characterization. A clinical phase I trial with T-knife´s TCR lead candidate targeting MAGE-A1 for patients with multiple myeloma will start recruiting in 2019 in cooperation with Charité. T-knife is based in Berlin, Germany.