First Flight Venture Center — Introducing First Flight's Inaugural WheelsUP Cohort
Summary
The focus on vital topics such as advanced biomanufacturing and drug discovery make this cohort poised to tackle national security issues like pandemic preparedness. Akanocures platform is a robust synthetic strategy aiming to populate new chemical spaces via the efficient discovery, optimization, and manufacturing of oral drug-like compounds/macrocycles bearing high degree of diversity and complexity and maximum biological relevance against undruggable targets like PPIs (protein-protein interactions).AthemBio invents breakthrough technologies and transforms them into solutions to solve major bioprocessing challenges encountered during biologics manufacturing.AVECRIS is developing an advanced non-viral gene delivery platform that will enable next generation gene therapy and genetic vaccination. AVECRISs vectors are redosable and non-immunogenic, offering stable and long-lasting gene expression.Jurata Thin Film, Inc. is working to revolutionize the way vaccines and biologics are stored, distributed and delivered to all who need them around the world. Juratas technology could remove the need for cold chain logistics in vaccine and biologic transport and storage.Phase is developing a novel way to 3D print microfluidics, which opens new doors to innovation in biotechnology, drug discovery, and research.PrecNA LLC, is a manufacturer of equipment for producing customized lipid nanoparticle formulations.QATCH is developing an early stage drug discovery tool to screen injectability and manufacturability of biopharmaceutical formulations.QUANTiSCOPE enhances drug discovery through automated imaging analysis tools designed to easily integrate into research workflows.Regennova, Inc. Is a startup biotech company dedicated to developing novel therapeutics for inflammatory diseases and neurological disorders such as Cerebral Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimers disease.Sensible Biotechnologies is solving the shortfalls of current mRNA manufacturing by building a novel manufacturing platform that will address this unmet and growing need for high-quality, high-purity and low-price mRNA.To learn more about WheelsUP, visit www.ffvcnc.org/wheelsup, or email Emil Runge at erunge@ffvcnc.org.First Flight Venture Center is a high-science, high-impact science-focused business incubator located in the heart of Research Triangle Park, NC. First Flight has launched businesses that have commercialized important new science breakthroughs and disruptive technologies, while creating thousands of jobs in North Carolina.