| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Vinay Bhupathy |
General Counsel | Profile |
The trillions of microbes that call us home – the human microbiome – perform critical functions that preserve our health including helping develop our immune system, manufacturing nutrients such as vitamins, and harvesting energy from the diet. Alterations of the human microbiome are increasingly recognized as a key factor in autoimmune, metabolic, infectious and many other diseases. For millions of years, humans have co-evolved with this community of microbes, communicating in an ancient language that holds critical clues about how autoimmune and infectious diseases develop. This language is based on a system of signals that our resident microbes use to successfully colonize us, such as byproducts of bacterial metabolism and factors that bacteria use to adapt to human niches. Recent discoveries have shown that most of these signals do not lead to disease, rather, they promote our long-term survival. Vedanta Biosciences is developing an innovative class of therapies that modulate pathways of interaction between the human microbiome and the host immune system. Vedanta Biosciences was co-founded by PureTech and a group of world renowned experts in immunology and microbiology.
BionorImmuno is a Bethesda, MD-based company in the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech sector.
Dianthus is a biotechnology company dedicated to designing and delivering the next generation of best-in-class monoclonal antibodies with improved selectivity and potency. Led by a multidisciplinary team of seasoned biotech entrepreneurs and scientists, we are pioneering selective antibodies of validated and emerging complement targets to allow people with rare and severe autoimmune diseases live healthier lives to their fullest potential.
Ansun BioPharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of unique host-directed anti-viral therapies for respiratory viruses. Ansun BioPharma has two products in late stage clinical development. Fludase is a first-in-class broad-spectrum investigational therapeutic agent to treat all forms of influenza, including pandemic variants and drug-resistant variants that cannot be treated by any currently approved flu therapies, including H1N1, H5N1 and H7N9. Paradase is an investigational nebulized drug which is designed to target the receptor for parainfluenza viruses and is being evaluated in a Phase 2 trial for the treatment of lower tract parainfluenza infection in immunocompromised patients.
Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focuses on discovering and developing drugs for various diseases. Its product candidates include VTP-34072, which is in a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; and VTP-37948 that is in Phase I clinical trials for alzheimer's disease. The company’s products in preclinical studies comprise VTP-43742 for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, such as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Behcet's disease, and autoimmune uveitis; VTP-38443 for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome that consists of unstable angina and heart attacks; and VTP-38543 for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, an immune system mediated inflammation of the skin. Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has collaborations with Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH for the development of VTP-34072 and VTP-37948. Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in January, 2005. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.