Article preview from IN VIVO - March, 2013
Brief profiles of these recently formed companies: CliniCast, CoCoTherapeutics, Jounce Therapeutics, MetaMed, Prevacus, and Saphena Medical.
Out Of The Blocks, March 2013
Article preview from IN VIVO - March, 2013
475 El Camino Real
Suite 414
Millbrae, CA 94030
Phone: (415 ) 857-2278
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: www.clinicast.net
CliniCast aims to help health care providers and payors optimize their limited, fixed resources. Its cloud-based ARTO platform mines clinical data to identify high-risk patients and enable providers to design interventions that can reduce preventable hospitalizations. Co-founder Jack Challis, PhD, is CEO of the start-up, which has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from health care IT seed accelerator Rock Health.
Oxford Business Park
9400 Garsington Road
Oxford, UK, OX4 2HN
Phone: +44 20 7932 2100
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: Not yet launched
Advent Venture Partners, Kings College London, and Wellcome Trust have launched CoCo Therapeutics to develop Alzheimer’s drugs that target retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA). Scientific founder Jonathan Corcoran, PhD’s previous studies of the compounds have demonstrated that acting on RARA can affect multiple parts of the AD pathway. Biotech industry veteran Steven Butcher, PhD, is COO of the start-up; Advent provided an undisclosed amount of seed funding
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