Christian Schade

Aprea Therapeutics AB operates as a holding company that provides research performed at Karolinska Institutet. It focuses its activities on discovery and development of novel anticancer compounds targeting the tumor suppressor protein. Its product has been tested in a Phase I/II dose escalating safety study in patients with refractory hematological malignancies or prostate carcinoma. It pursues the development of an anticancer drug, APR-246, which has p53-based mechanism for patients with ovarian cancer. The company was founded by Klas Gosta Wiman, Galina Selivanova, Vladimir Bykov, Wenjie Bao, Natalia Issaeva, and Staffan Strömblad in 2003 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Sapience Therapeutics, Inc. focuses on advancing novel therapeutics for major unmet medical needs, particularly high mortality cancers. Its drug development program involves translating science into novel therapies, and initial goal is to develop a first-in-class treatment for glioblastoma multiforme, which is the most severe and deadly form of brain cancer. The company was founded by Barry Kappel and Isaac Blech in 2015 and is headquartered in Scarsdale, NY.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. The firm’s novel antiviral drug candidates addresses the limitations of CHB therapies. The company was founded in 2009 by Osvaldo Flores, Ali Munawar and George D. Hartman and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.