Bioentrepreneurship Networking | Founders Series
Health Sciences Research Building (HSRB-II)
6th floor, Room N600
6th floor, Room N600
1750 Haygood Drive NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Bioentrepreneurship Networking—
Bioentrepreneurship Networking—
Join Emory University's School of Medicine as it kicks off its first Founders Series event, featuring Dr. Gabe A. Kwong!
A longstanding challenge in medicine is getting drugs to act at the right place and at the right time inside the body. Port Therapeutics was founded by academic co-founders at Georgia Tech, Caltech and MIT to pioneer spatiotemporal therapeutics. Their cutting edge approach to the design of cell therapies centers on incorporating temperature-sensitive transcriptional switches that can be remotely activated by small changes in temperature using external stimuli - such as radiofrequency or focused ultrasound - applied by medical devices. These thermal switches have been tested in CAR T-cells and shown to enable the localized production of potent modulators (e.g., cytokines, T-cell engagers) to boost anti-tumor responses while limiting systemic exposure, unlocking drugs that were previously undruggable. This talk will share the origin story, investment thesis, and the scientific foundation behind Port Therapeutics and its mission to usher in a new category of spatially and temporally controlled medicines. Time for networking will be allotted, and food will be provided.
Please RSVP to attend the session on Thurs, May 15th from 4:30 – 6:00 pm in HSRB-II, 6th floor, Room N600.