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Nephrogen (YC S20) — Curative genetic medicines for kidney diseases

Nephrogen is a Stanford biotech spin-out developing curative genetic medicines for kidney and pancreatic diseases. Kidney disease alone affects 1 in 7 Americans, and neither indication has any approved gene-based therapies.

Nephrogen is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Curative genetic medicines for kidney diseases (Y Combinator directory entry, August 19, 2022).

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Nephrogen

New accelerator entry · 2022-08-19 · the record

Summer 2020
batch
5
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2020
Announced2022-08-19
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size5
IndustryHealthcare
Sub-industryHealthcare -> Therapeutics
SectorsGene Therapy, CRISPR, Biotech
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedNew York City, NY, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://www.nephrogenbiotech.com

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Nephrogen is a Stanford biotech spin-out developing curative genetic medicines for kidney and pancreatic diseases. Kidney disease alone affects 1 in 7 Americans, and neither indication has any approved gene-based therapies. Nephrogen's underlying platform combines AI and high-throughput screening to engineer safer, more efficient, and less expensive gene delivery vehicles for reaching the kidney and pancreas, and has attracted non-dilutive funding from seven major pharmaceutical companies including Merck KGaA, Novartis, and Bristol Myers Squibb.

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