Dr Scott Shandler United States

Longevity Biotech is a privately held preclinical biotechnology company developing a new class of linear, stabilized, peptide therapeutics called Hybridtides®. 

Our objective for this meeting is to initiate fundraising (Series A) and partnership discussions to progress our preclinical neuroinflammation program into the clinic.  

To date, Longevity Biotech has demonstrated in vivo neuroprotection in a Parkinson's Disease animal model and established preliminary immunological-based biomarker end-point links to on-going clinical trials.     Longevity Biotech is encouraged to continue the development of this differentiated and potentially disease modifying therapeutic candidate to address the unmet needs across a variety of neurological disorders.  

More generally, Longevity Biotech is committed to the development of our current preclinical portfolio as well as expanding the platform breadth via licensing opportunities.  Currently, Longevity Biotech is developing GPCR based Hybridtides® for the treatment of metabolic, cardiovascular, neuroscience and oncology diseases.   In addition, preliminary data (in vitro &  in vivo) suggest the possibility of oral delivery of Hybridtide based therapeutics.

Biotech Subsector
Biotech Phase of Development
Technology Overview
Synthetic Peptide Scaffold that confers unique stability and biological activities
Alliance & Collaborations
University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Supporting Metrics or Evidence
Most recent paper: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n7/full/nbt.2920.html
Current Financing Needs
Series A - $15m
Current Timeline
approximately 18-24 months from clinical trials
Current Investors
Breakout Labs, NetScientific
IP Status
Several patents approved along with several still pending worldwide
Dr Scott Shandler
Longevity Biotech
LinkedIn logo CEO 

Scott Shaunessy United States

Year Founded
2008
Service Provider Type
Unique Capabilities

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With virtual team assembly and automated routing, robust tracking and on-demand reporting, the ideaPoint solution reduces administrative overhead, increases efficiency and efficacy of process, and provides a simple and intuitive user experience.

ideaPoint
CEO 

Jeffery Sheldon

CitareTx founded in 2008 is a venture development and investment firm based in Houston Texas. The firm provides investment and incubation services to start-up and early-stage medical device companies. The firm provides seed capital (equity) ranging from $5K to $2M with follow-on capital of up to $5M. The firm also considers investment opportunities with smaller than typically accepted venture capital market size thresholds. The firm is geographically agnostic but prefers companies to be based in Texas. The firm is actively seeking new opportunities.

CitareTx Investment Partners
General Partner & Managing Director 

Sara Shnider

Prize4Life is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 in Cambridge, MA focused on accelerating therapy development for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease). Prize4Life uses incentive prizes to attract new minds and drive innovation in ALS drug development. The organization is running the $1M Avi Kremer ALS Treatment Prize4Life challenge for preclinical validation of a novel ALS therapeutic in an ALS mouse model, and submissions to this prize will be accepted until June 6th 2015. In addition to prizes, Prize4Life also runs infrastructure programs to support the ALS research community, such as the ALS FORUM, an online portal of cutting edge research and drug development news in ALS (www.researchals.org).

Prize4Life
Executive Director 

Nadim Shohdy

The NYU Office of Industrial Liaison (OIL) promotes the commercial development of NYU technologies into products to benefit the public, while providing resources to the University to support its research, education, and patient care missions. NYU OIL also facilitates research collaborations between NYU researchers and industry on projects of mutual interest.

In 2013, NYU launched the Office of Therapeutics Alliances (OTA). OTA is a nimble, "virtual biotech" approach to advance novel therapeutic projects by playing on the strengths of NYU in dissecting disease pathways and those of external, professional capabilities in early stage R&D. OTA identifies NYU projects with potential for addressing unmet needs, delineates the path to therapeutic proof of concept and assembles internal and external resources tailored to each specific project’s needs to maximize the likelihood of successful partnerships with biopharma, new biotech startups or disease foundations. 

NYU Office of Therapeutics Alliances
Director, Drug Discovery Partnerships 

Mike Shore United States

DavosPharma’s corporate offering covers all the activities required to get a drug from conception to commercialization. DavosPharma has been filling this need since 1972, serving the pharmaceutical and life science market by providing discovery chemistry & biology, pre-clinical development, and all required CMC activities including custom synthesis of organic molecules, custom dosage formulation, and custom manufacturing of cGMP intermediates, APIs, and drug product. 

DavosPharma
Director, Global Supply Chain & Technical Operations 

Danielle Silva

Life Science Nation (LSN) is the premier sourcing platform for market intelligence and prospect pipeline development in the life science arena. LSN enables life science professionals to generate a list of qualified global targets that are a fit for their company’s products, services, and fundraising efforts. The ability to generate these Global Target Lists (GTLs) makes life science professionals more effective and efficient. 

Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
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Life Science Investor Profiles, LSN has sourced validated and maintains the largest global database of investor profiles. LSN defined 10 categories of Life Science Investor;

·         Private Equity

·         Venture capital

·         Family Offices

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·         Large Pharma/ Biotech

·         Alternative Institutional Investors: Pensions, Endowments

·         Endowments/Foundations

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Marketing Services, LSN consults on branding, messaging, and outbound marketing strategies. This includes developing a tagline, elevator pitch, executive summary, corporate power point presentation, and new or updated website design to fit your brand and message. LSN will develop a Global Target List of prequalified candidates to target for marketing initiatives.

Life Science Nation

Lisa Simms

FasterCures, is a center of the Milken Institute, which focuses on the barriers that prevent medical breakthroughs from reaching patients faster. Lisa serves as External Affairs Director and manages stakeholder relationships as it relates to programmatic and business development opportunities - particularly surrounding our Partnering for Cures conference, which is an annual event that brings together leaders in the R & D space each year with the goal of collaboration to move forward the entire R & D system.

Service Provider Type
FasterCures
External Affairs and Operations Director 

Richard Simoni

Asset Management Ventures is a private investment firm funded by a single LP and is based in California USA. The firm invests in seed and early-stage health technology companies. The typical investment size for seed investment ranges from $25K to $1M (usually in equity or convertible notes). For early-stage companies the firm typically co-invests with other VC firms in Series A and B financing and the investment size will depend on the company?s financial needs. The firm is geographically agnostic but prefers start-ups to be based on the West Coast. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
Asset Management Ventures
Managing Partner 

Dr Daniel Sindelar United States

AdVax is an inter/multi-disciplinary team of individuals who have developed major paradigm-shifting science, research, technology and new clinical data sets demonstrating previously unidentified bacterial infections are able to translocate to the brain and be linked to the induction of Alzheimer’s disease.

We have developed novel and proprietary real time molecular diagnostics to identify these non-culturable bacteria and then apply novel immune refocusing technologies to create both monoclonal antibodies that could be used in treatments and a first of its kind vaccine for the prevention of both cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s disease.

Our program is well on its way to identifying the major disease-inducing bacteria, which are then ready to be put into the immune refocusing technology for the derivation of human monoclonal antibodies and vaccines.

Dr Daniel Sindelar
Advax
LinkedIn logo CEO 
BIO

Daniel L. Sindelar DMD attended business school at Saint Louis University and earned a dental degree at Washington University School of Dental Medicine in 1981. He is a practicing dentist and expert in oral systemic health. He is a co-founder and recent president of the American Academy for Oral Systemic Health (AAOSH). He has earned preceptorship certification by participating with cardiologists in the prevention of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes. He is the founder and director of Oral Genomics, LLC. A passionate advocate of oral-systemic health, he has developed online video educational systems for healthcare professionals.

Dr. Sindelar has been an instructor in the field of laser dentistry. He is the author of Refresh Life, a book on the importance of oral health on overall health and well-being and has been interviewed by local and national radio shows and print news outlets. He has written for various dental publications, lectured at major healthcare conferences, and has been featured in several cover stories in Dental Economics.