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April 2019: Enzyme by Design wins the MedCity INVEST Biopharma Startup Contest
Chicago, Ill., April 25, 2019 – Yesterday afternoon, Enzyme by Design - a cancer therapeutic startup spun out from the University of Illinois at Chicago - was named the winner of the BioPharma category in the Pitch Perfect Startup contest at MedCity INVEST. This 2-day national conference focuses on healthcare investing in the Midwest and took place at the Ritz-Carlton at Water Tower place in downtown Chicago. Enzyme by Design was one of 43 startups selected to give pitches at this event with technology ranging from therapeutics and diagnostics to medical devices and health IT.
Dr. Arnon Lavie, Enzyme by Design’s CEO, gave an engaging winning pitch on the exciting new cancer therapeutic his team engineered and are currently developing. His passion and commitment to the mission of designing safer oncology treatment options was readily apparent and permeated the room. Through precise enzyme engineering, his team’s biologic drug can selectively starve certain tumor cells of a key nutrient and kill them off without also causing debilitating side effects that plague current FDA-approved variants. Enzyme by Design is excited about finding the right investors who believe in the impact of our mission to develop safe and effective cancer therapeutics. The company is seeking seed funding to complete IND-enabling studies, which will allow for first-in-human trials that will establish its superior safety profile in a Phase I clinical trial.
Credit: MedCity News
Jan 2019: EbD awarded NIH I-corp grant to interview 100 experts and develop a commercialization strategy
Dec 2018: EbD awarded NSF I-corp grant through University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurshi and Education
Sept 2018: EbD awarded NIH STTR grant to develop a novel AML biologic drug
July 2018: EbD awarded NIH STTR grant to develop a novel L-asparaginase
Feb 2018: UIC Cancer Center publishes writeup on EbD's CEO
UIC Cancer Center News: UIC Cancer Center publishes writeup on EbD's CEO
Jan 2018: EbD publishes the advantage of low L-glutaminase L-asparaginase in Cancer Research
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