NORTH
CHICAGO, Ill., May 15, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Rosalind Franklin
University's Helix 51 biomedical incubator, the only one of
its kind in Lake County, Illinois,
celebrated its fifth year of operations in April with the entry of
four new companies. The incubator is currently home to 12
early-stage startups, including its first international
company.
"The growth of our Helix 51 incubator over the last five years
brings to the RFU campus a range of novel therapeutic and
diagnostic alternatives that will hopefully benefit patients around
the globe," said Dr. Ronald Kaplan,
RFU's executive vice president for research. "Helix 51 has also
created a pipeline of companies into our Innovation and Research
Park."
Helix 51 features 6,500 square feet of wet and dry labs, a class
100,000 "clean room," offices, a shared conference room, biological
safety cabinets, chemical fume hoods and an array of refrigeration
equipment. Companies can also access, with no additional cost, a
unique Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program and internship program
drawing students from RFU's College of Pharmacy, Northwestern's Masters of Biotechnology program,
and Kent School of Law's JD
program.
The new companies include:
- MountView Therapeutics, a spinout from Northwestern University and Lurie Children's
Hospital based on the technology of Dr. YouYang Zhao, professor of
pediatrics, medicine and pharmacology. The company is developing
next generation transformative technologies for gene and drug
delivery targeting vascular endothelium to treat human diseases.
Dr. Zhao published results in August
2023 in Science Translational Medicine on a new
therapeutic approach for the treatment of Acute Respiratory
Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
- Remote Vital Monitoring Inc., spun out of the
University of Illinois-Chicago, Cook
County Hospital and New York University
and is based on the work of Dr. James
Stone, a neurosurgeon, and colleagues. Their technology will
play an important role in monitoring the ongoing development and
recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury, which can affect as
many as 50 million people annually, costing the global economy
$400 billion each year.
- MRI Coil Guru, a company that specializes in the
maintenance and repair of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
instruments based on the expertise of GE Healthcare-trained service
engineer Chavis Thomas.
- Gencell Biotech, a Mexican company headquartered in
Guadalajara, working on new
therapeutic approaches to diabetic foot ulcer and wound care, as
well as Parkinson's disease and
Alzheimer's.
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