Notes on the SENS Research Foundation Pitch Day, January 2020

The J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference runs every year in San Francisco, a big draw for the biotech industry, and many organizations take the opportunity to host events at the same time. Among these, the SENS Research Foundation has for the past few years hosted a pitch day in which biotech companies in the longevity industry, largely startups, present to that portion of the Bay Area investor community interested in funding the treatment of aging as a medical condition. I was there to present on progress at Repair Biotechnologies, and took some notes on the other companies as they talked about their work. Kimera Labs Kimera Labs is a fairly established company working on exosome therapeutics and diagnostics, deriving the exosomes used in therapy from cultured stem cells. They have been around for 10 years or so, and started selling exosomes in 2014. They are primarily concerned with regenerative medicine applications, accelerating regeneration from severe injury via exosome delivery to produce faster healing without scar formation. Kimera Labs exosomes have been used to treat about 30,000 patients. The founder views the effects of stem cell exosomes as being a stimulation of growth signaling that is characteristic of embryonic development. Viscient Biosciences Viscient Biosciences works on 3D bioprinting of human tissues for drug discovery and validation, allowing for development programs that are, in their earlier stages, more cost-effective than those tha...
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