Digest 7/28/23
Surveying great inventors and businesses
Axial: https://linktr.ee/axialxyz
Axial partners with great founders and inventors. We invest in early-stage life sciences companies such as Appia Bio, Seranova Bio, Delix Therapeutics, Simcha Therapeutics, among others often when they are no more than an idea. We are fanatical about helping the rare inventor who is compelled to build their own enduring business. If you or someone you know has a great idea or company in life sciences, Axial would be excited to get to know you and possibly invest in your vision and company . We are excited to be in business with you - email us at info@axialvc.com
Pharmasset:
- Founded in 1998 by Raymond Schinazi & Dennis Liotta out of Emory
- To develop anti-viral drugs
- Discovering racivir for HIV, clevudine for HBV & Solvadi that effectively cured hepatitis C
- Acquired by Gilead in 2011 for $11B, sparking a ~decade boom in biotech
Systematic elucidation of genetic mechanisms underlying cholesterol uptake led by Marisa Hamilton from the Richard Sherwood lab https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(23)00070-8
Scientist Stories: Hans Clevers, Organoids to Model Human Diseases
"I was excited to be doing something where, unlike the science course labs I’d had before, we didn’t know the answer. We were actually finding the answer."
- Erin O'Shea, President of HHMI & pioneering research in gene regulation and the circadian clock
