“Symptoms depend on the stage of disease and also which organs are affected,” said Dr. Emma Harvey, Global Head of Medical Affairs at the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company F2G. “It starts as a respiratory disease and can be indistinguishable on symptoms from viral or bacterial pneumonia.”

Akihiro Ko is the CEO and Co-Founder of Elixirgen Therapeutics, which was founded with the mission of treating patients using RNA technology. Their c-srRNA, controllable self-replicating RNA, technology is being applied to telomere biology disorders where patients have inherited short telomeres and a failure to develop bone marrow. Elixirgen is looking to restore the ability to create blood cells in patients suffering from this rare disease.

My biggest challenge was financing Canary. I think the concept behind Canary is timely, highly medically relevant, and an obvious next step in the evolution of medical devices—life-saving

John Rex, MD, chief medical officer at drug discovery company F2G, told Becker’s he also feels the solution is two-part: legislative and research-driven.

If data is the new oil, CytoReason is one of its barons. Combining all available information about a disease – literature, data sets, all data types – the company builds computational disease models utilized by its pharma partners to help them determine which drug avenues to pursue next.

Elicio is merging with Angion Biomedica, a Uniondale, NY-based biotech that began searching for strategic alternatives last July after Phase II setbacks forced it to shutter all R&D work.

In 2021, PepGen raised $113 million to challenge Sarepta in DMD and build its neuromuscular and neurologic pipeline.

AbbVie has tapped Immunome’s discovery platform in a heavily backended partnership and option agreement in a bid to discover 10 antibody-target pairs from three as-yet-unnamed tumor types.