| Name | Title | Contact Details |
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Ellen Karges |
Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Compliance | Profile |
BioHarp UNI US is a Sun Valley, CA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, & Biotech sector.
With offices in Philadephia and Boston, SwanBio Therapeutics is developing leading-edge therapies to deliver dramatic clinical efficacy for the treatment of neurological diseases. We are driven by an unrelenting passion to solve difficult challenges, and a belief that meaningful discovery is borne of curiosity, collaboration, and compassion. Founded by proven industry leaders with a commitment to positively impacting the lives of people with neurological diseases, SwanBio merges clinical, scientific and drug commercialization expertise.
Bamboo was formed to advance the work of Dr. Richard Jude Samulski, the Director of the Gene Therapy Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC), from the laboratory into human clinical trials where it could meet the requirements for drug approval. Dr. Samulski is a pioneer in the field of gene therapy. Over thirty (30) years ago, Dr. Samulski was the first person to realize the potential to use the adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a vehicle to replace a defective gene with a healthy gene. Since that time, he has re-engineered the naturally occurring virus to target delivery to certain tissues, de-target other tissues, and improve its safety. This has resulted in over twenty (20) patents related to the use of AAV for therapeutic uses. Dr. Samulski continues to lead innovation in the field of vector optimization and AAV re-engineering.
54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market; Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is Caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.