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Eye Center of Central Georgia is a Macon, GA-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Symic is developing a new category of therapeutics that offer an exciting and biologically innovative approach to treating disease. While it is clear that cells play an important role in tissue inflammation and regeneration, it is also known that the extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an equally critical role in maintaining healthy tissue. The ECM is the non-cellular component of the body’s tissues, and proteoglycans are important structural and functional macromolecules native to the ECM that are known to protect against tissue degradation and promote healing during illness or injury. Recognizing the importance of proteoglycans in many acute and chronic disease states, Symic developed a library of proprietary, ECM-specific compounds that mimic the protective effect of natural proteoglycans. For controlled injuries (e.g. incisions, balloon angioplasty), Symic’s ECM-specific compounds allow for local application, enhancing their ability to attenuate inflammation and reduce scarring only at the site of injury. In disease states known for chronic inflammation involving the ECM (e.g. cartilage in osteoarthritis), Symic’s technology can disrupt the cycle of degradation-inflammation by directly targeting and protecting the injured ECM. The ECM plays a critical role in many acute and chronic disease states, many of which have limited or no effective therapeutic options. Symic plans to advance its compounds in a variety of therapeutic areas with unmet clinical needs.
Virent Energy Systems is a Madison, WI-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Greffex™ is a privately held, multi-national company, headquartered in Aurora, Colorado. Established in 1999, Greffex has developed a novel genetic platform for the development and production of vaccines. Our proprietary GREVAX™ Universal Platform delivers vaccines in a faster, more affordable and more efficient manner. Once a pathogen has been identified, Greffex`s team designs and produces a GREVAX™ vaccine in as little as 4 weeks. The state-of-the-art flexibility of the GREVAX™ Universal Platform makes it the ideal delivery vehicle for vaccines against a wide variety of infectious disease, including but not limited to Pandemic Influenza strains, Anthrax and Dengue Fever, as well as Malaria, Hepatitis C, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Ebola, HPV, Plague, Tuberculosis and a host of other vaccine candidates.
Providence is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering mRNA therapeutics and vaccines with a focus on infectious diseases and oncology. Initially founded as a cancer vaccines company in 2015, in response to a worldwide need for a COVID-19 vaccine, Providence expanded its focus beyond oncology therapies to develop an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19. Providence works with multiple industry collaborators, universities, nongovernmental agencies and multiple arms of the Government of Canada to discover and develop vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases and cancer. This has resulted in the development of an mRNA vaccine platform that includes a proprietary design algorithm and proprietary, scalable manufacturing processes.