Interviewing Kelsey Moody of Ichor Therapeutics at the Longevity Leaders Conference

Ichor Therapeutics, led by Kelsey Moody, was one of the first companies to emerge from the core SENS Research Foundation community. The company has grown over the years and is now at the head of a collection of spin-out startups focused on a variety of approaches to aging, such as senolytic therapies to destroy senescent cells (Antoxerene), and clearance of a form of metabolic waste that contributes to macular degeneration (LysoClear). The influx of funding in this field that has taken place over the past couple of years is now powering Ichor Therapeutics forward towards the clinic. Ichor and its portfolio companies have been very busy over the last year, so I thought it was time that we caught up on progress. Can you tell us how things are going for the Ichor group? Ichor really had a good year in 2018. We raised over $16 million across our portfolio, and that's allowed us to scale up all aspects of our operations. We're at over 50 employees now, mostly bench scientists and research technicians, and we're really delivering on our goal of being a vertically integrated biopharmaceutical company. What that means is we want to be able to take any idea, regardless of what it is, such as a type of compound or therapeutic indication, and rapidly turn it from the discovery stage, through the pipeline, into the first demand studies. The additional capital that we've raised and the infrastructure that we're putting online are really allowing us to put that all together...
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