About company
They are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of oral therapeutics for patients with autoimmune diseases that are the first to target new mechanisms of action, including the LANCL2, NLRX1 and PLXDC2 immunometabolic pathways. They leverage their proprietary AI-based precision medicine platform, their LANCE platform, to identify novel therapeutic targets based on predictions of immunometabolic function and create therapeutic candidates to engage those targets in areas of unmet medical need. Through their LANCE platform, they have identified seven novel immunometabolic targets and product candidates to date across 14 indications. They have completed the induction phase of a Phase 2 clinical trial of their lead product candidate, BT-11, for mild to moderate UC in the United States, Russia and Europe to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BT-11 in UC patients. Data from the induction stage of this Phase 2 trial demonstrated that BT-11 was gut-restricted and well tolerated, with no treatment-related significant adverse events and a similar adverse event profile across placebo and BT-11 groups. Based on these data, they expect to commence an integrated Phase 3 trial of BT-11 in UC patients in the United States, Russia, Asia, and Europe in the first half of 2021.
CEO
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CFO
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Josep Bassaganya-Riera
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Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Ph.D. has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since our founding in January 2017. Dr. Bassaganya-Riera has served as the Director of the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory since July 2002 and the Chairman of the board of directors of Biotherapeutics Inc. since October 2008. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Biotherapeutics from October 2008 to September 2017 and a Research Professor of Immunology at Virginia Tech from December 2002 to May 2020. Dr. Bassaganya-Riera holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Immunology from Iowa State University. Our board of directors believes that Dr. Bassaganya-Riera is qualified to serve as a director based on his role as the founder of our company, his service as our President and Chief Executive Officer and his extensive management and technical experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
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