We are thrilled to announce that Nephrogen was awarded an Innovation Matching Grant from the Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR). These funds serve as a match to our ongoing Phase I NIH STTR grant entitled, "CRISPR-Cas Editing as a Genetic Cure for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease." This project is a critical part of our efforts to advance the world's first truly curative ADPKD therapy into clinical trials. Please join me in congratulating our CEO, Demetri M., and our Scientific Advisory Board member, Avnesh Thakor, who served as co-PIs for this project, and all the Nephrogen scientists (Fernando Gomez García, Miriam Rivera Moreno, Lily Thompson, Najani Johnson) and Stanford collaborators (Shashank Chetty, PhD, Vivek Bhalla, Mark Kay MD, PhD) for their hard work to make this work possible! https://lnkd.in/eYbtxVjj
Nephrogen
Biotechnology Research
New York, New York 740 followers
Curative gene therapies for kidney diseases
About us
Nephrogen is a biotech company developing curative gene therapies for kidney diseases. Our initial focus is on polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which affects 600,000 Americans and has no effective treatment or cure.
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- Industry
- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, New York
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
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New York, New York 10027, US
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100 Cummings Center
Suite #451c
Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, US
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Excited to join the fall batch of StartX!
Excited to welcome the fall StartX batch! Every batch is slightly different, but a few fun facts about our fall cohort -85% of the companies said AI is a meaningful part of their core products. -More Stanford University professors in this cohort than ever before. Excited to support more deep-tech companies -1/4 of the teams are building in med and 1/4 in consumer. Both up from the last cohort and impacted by AI -1/3 have built companies before; we have several repeat StartX founders -Hiking is the top hobby -Several former professional athletes
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Very excited to welcome Ester Caffarel-Salvador, PhD from Chiesi Group to our lab space at Biolabs@NYULangone last week. Thrilled to continue our partnership with Chiesi to bring gene therapies to patients faster!
Director, Strategic Innovation | Scientific Advisor | Mentor | Consultant | MIT's Innovator under 35 (2019)
Last week, we visited BioLabs New Haven and Biolabs@NYULangone, where we engaged with scientific #startups, learnt about their #innovations and shared Chiesi Global Rare Diseases’ interests. We also had the pleasure to meet in person the Nephrogen team, our 2023 #GoldenTicket winners! Way to go!
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We are thrilled to share that we have been selected as a winner in the 2024 Millipore Sigma Biotech Grant Program! Looking forward to working with Sigma to bring out therapies to patients faster. Kudos to Lily Thompson, Fernando Gomez García, Najani Johnson, Vivek Bhalla, and Demetri M. for their hard work!
Please help us congratulate Nephrogen, a resident at Biolabs@NYULangone, for being selected as a finalist in the MilliporeSigma's 2024 Advance Biotech Grant program. Award will be presented on June 12th 2024 Biolabs@NYULangone. Helping Advance Therapeutic Products to Market! Great achievement! 🎉 #Biotech #Innovation #Therapeutics #EmergingBiotech #ProcessDevelopment
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