Pfizer

Pfizer is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing medical care and improving patient outcomes through the development and provision of safe, effective, and affordable medicines. The company offers a diverse portfolio of products that support wellness, prevention, and treatment across a wide range of therapeutic areas. Pfizer is notable for its industry-leading pipeline of innovative treatments aimed at addressing significant health challenges, including diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer. The company's commitment to public health underpins its efforts to ensure that all individuals have access to necessary healthcare services and medications. Through its continuous focus on research and development, Pfizer seeks to enhance its offerings and contribute to the advancement of global health.

Tina Deignan

President Oncology Commercial

O'Donnell, Christopher

Partner, Pfizer Ventures and Executive Director, Emerging Sciences and Innovation

Past deals in Life Science

DEM BioPharma

Series A in 2022
DEM BioPharma is an immuno-oncology company that is working to eradicate cancer by targeting novel innate immune system checkpoints.

Valneva

Post in 2022
Valneva is a pharmaceutical company developing prophylactic vaccines to treat infectious diseases. The company focused on developing and commercializing prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Valneva has leveraged its expertise and capabilities both to commercialize two vaccines successfully and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease, the chikungunya virus, and COVID-19.

Dren Bio

Series B in 2022
Dren Bio is a biotechnology company with a portfolio of attractive projects focused on powerful protein engineering technologies for the depletion of cells, protein aggregates, and other disease-causing agents. It is a holding company business model aimed at creating value with multiple projects as stand-alone assets.

Spero Therapeutics

Post in 2021
Spero Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in developing novel therapies for multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections and rare diseases. Its key product candidates include tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide, an oral carbapenem-class antibiotic intended for adults with MDR Gram-negative infections, and SPR206, an intravenous agent targeting MDR Gram-negative infections in hospital settings. Additionally, the company is advancing SPR720, an oral antibiotic designed for treating pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease. Spero Therapeutics has established various collaborations and license agreements to support the development and commercialization of its products, including partnerships with Meiji Seika Pharma, Everest Medicines, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute. Founded in 2013, Spero aims to address the critical need for effective treatments against serious bacterial infections using innovative approaches and mechanisms.

ImCyse

Series B in 2021
Imcyse is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of a new class of active specific immunotherapies for the treatment of severe chronic autoimmune diseases. The company’s unique technology platform allows it to locally target immune cells involved in the destruction of the diseased organ. This platform is based on the administration of Imotopes™, which are specifically modified peptides, allowing for the generation of cytolytic CD4 T-cells, that specifically eliminate antigen-presenting cells and autoantigen specific lymphocytes. Imcyse’s approach, sustained over time, helps to prevent and treat diseases with no current therapeutic alternative and to potentially cure patients without impairing immune defense. The company has established proof of concept in several indications and has completed its first clinical trial in type 1 diabetes with promising results. Beyond type 1 diabetes, Imcyse is developing a pipeline of Imotopes™ for the treatment of several autoimmune diseases.

LianBio

Venture Round in 2020
LianBio’s mission is to catalyze the development and accelerate availability of paradigm-shifting medicines to patients in China and major Asian markets through partnerships that provide access to the best science-driven therapeutic discoveries. LianBio collaborates with world-class partners across a diverse array of therapeutic and geographic areas to build out a pipeline based on disease relevance and the ability to impact patients with transformative mechanisms and precision-based therapeutics.

BioAtla

Series D in 2020
BioAtla, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, specializing in the development of specific and selective antibody-based therapeutics for cancer treatment. The company utilizes its proprietary platforms, Conditionally Active Biologics (CAB) and Comprehensive Integrated Antibody Optimization (CIAO!), to create novel monoclonal antibody and cell-based therapeutics. Its lead product candidate, BA3011, is a conditionally active biologic antibody-drug conjugate aimed at treating soft tissue and bone sarcoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and other tumors. BioAtla's pipeline also includes BA3021, targeting non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma, and BA3071, which addresses various cancers such as renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer. The company's innovative approach enhances drug selectivity for cancer tissues, potentially improving safety and expanding treatment options for previously untreatable cancers. BioAtla holds over 150 issued patents and patent applications, underscoring its commitment to developing safer and more effective cancer therapies.

Montis Biosciences

Seed Round in 2020
Montis Biosciences is develops novel immune-oncology therapeutics targeting the intersection between vascular dysfunction and immune suppression to treat solid tumours.

EvolveImmune Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2020
EvolveImmune Therapeutics develops an immunobiological platform that delivers both sustained immune activation and tumor cell targeting in a single agent. Through integrated signaling, EVs first in category biologics directly target tumor cells and provide potent, tissue-localized amplification of cytokine secretion at the tumor site to maximize tumor killing. The company's biotherapeutics are engineered to overcome the limitations of conventional CD3 bispecific and other immune therapies to offer a better future for our patients in need, by maximizing therapeutic benefit and minimizing toxicity.

UE LifeSciences

Grant in 2019
Growth-stage FemTech company in preventive oncology space with proven B2B product suite & promising pipeline. Hallmark product regulatory cleared, validated through independent trials & commercially scaling in multiple markets with high-margin, pay-per-use revenue model. Big Pharma collaboration opening national-scale markets. Strong product pipeline in breast and cervical cancer space.

System1 Biosciences

Series A in 2018
System1 Biosciences, Inc., is a San Francisco-based neurotherapeutics company that employs phenotypic screening to discover novel drugs for complex neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy, autism, and schizophrenia, disorders for which current discovery techniques have proved least successful. System1 combines cerebral organoid science, systems neuroscience, robotic automation, and advanced data analytics to discover characterizations of disease never before achievable. These “deep phenotypes” are exploited to identify novel therapeutic targets and drug treatments.

BlueLight Therapeutics

Series C in 2018
BlueLight Therapeutics uses a proprietary structure-based platform to discover small molecules against difficult-to-drug targets. BlueLight Therapeutics leverages a proprietary, structure-driven platform to develop novel therapeutic molecules against challenging, high-value drug targets. The company has a passionate and experienced team with unique expertise on developing structural assays across a broad range of target classes.

Magnolia NeuroSciences

Series A in 2018
Magnolia Neurosciences aims to discover and develop proprietary, selective, and drug-like small molecule therapeutics for the prevention of neuronal cell death, thereby providing novel treatment options for patients suffering from neurodegeneration and related conditions. Magnolia Neurosciences Corporation, created to pursue technologies developed at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Therapeutics Discovery Division and the Neurodegeneration Consortium (NDC), is a New York-based Accelerator Life Science Partner portfolio company.
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is a private, non-profit corporation funded by the N.C. General Assembly to strengthen biotechnology research, business and education statewide. The Center is not a site for laboratory research; it works to support job creation in the biotechnology industry.

Superfluid DX

Seed Round in 2017
Tissue-specific cell-free circulating RNA is a newly developed area for molecular diagnosis. Based on this powerful non-invasive approach, Molecular Stethoscope aims to transform healthcare by providing early insight into a patient’s healthy versus disease state.

Circle Pharma

Series A in 2016
Circle Pharma is an early-stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell-permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diverse macrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Matt Jacobson and Scott Lokey in 2012 and is headed by David J. Earp.

BlueLight Therapeutics

Series B in 2016
BlueLight Therapeutics uses a proprietary structure-based platform to discover small molecules against difficult-to-drug targets. BlueLight Therapeutics leverages a proprietary, structure-driven platform to develop novel therapeutic molecules against challenging, high-value drug targets. The company has a passionate and experienced team with unique expertise on developing structural assays across a broad range of target classes.

Lodo Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Lodo Therapeutics Corporation is a drug discovery and development company focused on the creation of naturally derived novel therapeutics that will have a dramatic impact human health on a global basis. Lodo seeks to work in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and world leading Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) to tackle some of the greatest challenges in human health: resistant infectious disease and cancers. Lodo Therapeutics was created to pursue the scientific vision of Dr. Sean Brady at Rockefeller University. Dr. Brady and his laboratory have developed a genome-based, culture-independent platform for the discovery, biosynthesis, and characterization of small molecules from microbial sources present in soil samples. Lodo believes that the potential cures for a number of deadly and/or debilitating diseases literally lie at our feet. By combining the advancements in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, this innovative discovery platform exploits the power of microbial evolution for the identification of therapeutically valuable pharmaceutical products derived from natural sources. Lodo Therapeutics, an Accelerator Corporation-backed entity, is headquartered in New York City. The company’s lab and offices are located in the Alexandria Center for Life Science, New York City’s first and only premier life science park.

Translate Bio

Series B in 2015
Translate Bio is a biotechnology company that in biotechnology, RNA therapeutics, and rare diseases. Translate Bio is a therapeutics company developing a new class of potentially transformative medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction.

Merus

Series C in 2015
Merus B.V., a biomedical company, engages in the discovery and development of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals. It develops Oligoclonics technology that offers a class of human antibodies called Oligoclonics. Oligoclonics is a concept whereby a mixture of various human therapeutic antibodies, directed to a common antigen are produced from a single cell clone.

Circle Pharma

Seed Round in 2014
Circle Pharma is an early-stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell-permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diverse macrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Matt Jacobson and Scott Lokey in 2012 and is headed by David J. Earp.

Epic Sciences

Series C in 2014
Epic Sciences is a privately held diagnostics company committed to improving cancer management by providing easily accessible and real-time biopsy material to guide personalized medicine. Epic is founded on a powerful platform to identify and characterize rare cells including circulating tumor cells ("CTCs"). Epic is working with a number of partners including numerous pharmaceutical companies, major cancer centers, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes of Health.

BlueLight Therapeutics

Series A in 2013
BlueLight Therapeutics uses a proprietary structure-based platform to discover small molecules against difficult-to-drug targets. BlueLight Therapeutics leverages a proprietary, structure-driven platform to develop novel therapeutic molecules against challenging, high-value drug targets. The company has a passionate and experienced team with unique expertise on developing structural assays across a broad range of target classes.

Merus

Series B in 2013
Merus B.V., a biomedical company, engages in the discovery and development of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals. It develops Oligoclonics technology that offers a class of human antibodies called Oligoclonics. Oligoclonics is a concept whereby a mixture of various human therapeutic antibodies, directed to a common antigen are produced from a single cell clone.

Epic Sciences

Series B in 2012
Epic Sciences is a privately held diagnostics company committed to improving cancer management by providing easily accessible and real-time biopsy material to guide personalized medicine. Epic is founded on a powerful platform to identify and characterize rare cells including circulating tumor cells ("CTCs"). Epic is working with a number of partners including numerous pharmaceutical companies, major cancer centers, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes of Health.

DVS Sciences

Series A in 2011
DVS Sciences, Inc. specializes in manufacturing and distributing advanced bioanalytical solutions aimed at biomarker discovery, biological research, and potential clinical applications. The company is known for its patented multi-parameter system, which includes the CyTOF mass cytometer and a range of MAXPAR reagents featuring stable-isotope-tagged antibodies. This innovative CyTOF-MAXPAR system addresses the limitations of traditional flow cytometry by streamlining sample preparation and enabling the simultaneous identification of up to 100 biomarkers with high resolution and a broad dynamic range. DVS Sciences' CyTOF systems are utilized in leading laboratories across the United States, Canada, and Asia, and support various applications, including multiplex analysis of individual cells, clinical diagnostics, and research into cell populations and gene interactions.
TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops small molecule drugs that modulate programmed cell death pathways to treat debilitating diseases and conditions. The company's Smac Mimetics neutralize critical blocks in the apoptosis pathway to selectively destroy cancer cells. Its Necrostatin drugs block critical steps in the process leading to necrosis, enabling cell survival in a wide range of diseases and injuries where necrosis is a critical component of pathology.
TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops small molecule drugs that modulate programmed cell death pathways to treat debilitating diseases and conditions. The company's Smac Mimetics neutralize critical blocks in the apoptosis pathway to selectively destroy cancer cells. Its Necrostatin drugs block critical steps in the process leading to necrosis, enabling cell survival in a wide range of diseases and injuries where necrosis is a critical component of pathology.

Foldrx Pharmaceuticals

Acquisition in 2010
FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of disease modifying drug therapies for diseases of protein misfolding and amyloidosis. The companyТs pipeline includes a program in advanced clinical development to treat genetic neurologic and cardiovascular disorders, transthyretin-associated amyloidoses with polyneuropathy and TTR-associated amyloidoses with cardiomyopathy, and a discovery program in Parkinson's disease and cystic fibrosis. FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ablexis

Series A in 2010
Ablexis, LLC is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in human antibody drug discovery and development. Founded in December 2009, the company offers the AlivaMab Mouse, a transgenic mouse platform designed to enhance the efficiency of discovering therapeutic antibodies for human diseases. This innovative platform significantly improves upon traditional antibody discovery methods, facilitating biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in developing antibody and antibody-derivative drug candidates. Ablexis commercializes its technology through strategic partnerships, aiming to enable the next generation of breakthrough antibody drugs.

Aureon Laboratories

Series D in 2010
Aureon Laboratories is a life sciences company dedicated to enabling the advancement of predictive and personalized cancer treatment. Aureon provides objective, actionable information allowing patients and physicians to make more-informed treatment decisions through its prostate diagnostic tools.

Aureon Laboratories

Series C in 2010
Aureon Laboratories is a life sciences company dedicated to enabling the advancement of predictive and personalized cancer treatment. Aureon provides objective, actionable information allowing patients and physicians to make more-informed treatment decisions through its prostate diagnostic tools.

Merus

Series B in 2010
Merus B.V., a biomedical company, engages in the discovery and development of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals. It develops Oligoclonics technology that offers a class of human antibodies called Oligoclonics. Oligoclonics is a concept whereby a mixture of various human therapeutic antibodies, directed to a common antigen are produced from a single cell clone.

Wyeth Biopharma

Acquisition in 2009
Wyeth Biopharma

HD Biosciences

Series A in 2008
HD Biosciences Inc. (HDB) is a Shanghai-based biotech company specializing in drug discovery contract research. HDB has developed extensive knowledge and comprehensive technology platforms for drug discovery including assay development, high throughput drug screening, SAR, closed-loop and hit-to-lead biology solutions, as well as natural product-based lead discovery. The Company has signed multiple-year research agreements with clients including Pfizer, Organon and other pharmaceutical and biotech clients and is an indisputable leader in high value-added biology-based drug discovery CRO business in China.

Serenex

Acquisition in 2008
Serenex is a medical drug discovery and development company that focuses on oncology. The company develops Hsp90 product platform that provides a collection of small molecule Hsp90 inhibitors for cancer, inflammatory diseases, fungal infection resistance, viral diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. It also develops SNX-1012, a product for oral mucositis in solid tumor patients. Serenex is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2000 and it was acquired in 2008 by Pfizer.

Genizon BioSciences

Series D in 2007
Genizon Biosciences Inc. discovers genes and biomarkers in common diseases using genome wide association studies (GWAS), leveraging its proven and proprietary technology platform and access to patients from the Quebec Founder Population.

Aureon Laboratories

Series B in 2005
Aureon Laboratories is a life sciences company dedicated to enabling the advancement of predictive and personalized cancer treatment. Aureon provides objective, actionable information allowing patients and physicians to make more-informed treatment decisions through its prostate diagnostic tools.
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