Founded: 2011
Focus: Targeted Cancer Therapies
What they do: Salarius Pharmaceuticals focuses on developing targeted therapies to treat various types of cancers. The company’s lead candidate, Seclidemstat, is intended to treat Ewing sarcoma, a pediatric and young adult bone cancer that currently lacks targeted therapies. Salarius Pharmaceuticals performs clinical trials for the treatment of other advanced solid tumors including prostate, breast and ovarian cancers.
Founded: 2013
Focus: Genomic Medicine
What they do: Founded by Michael Metzker, RedVault Biosciences develops technologies with the aim of advancing genomic medicine. The company is currently working on a variety of projects including the development of sequencing technologies to determine haplotypes and structural variation in complex genomes. RedVault Biosciences is dedicated to identifying technology needs, creating and testing ideas, and transferring deliverables to production and distribution.