Overview
ANEW MEDICAL is dedicated to realizing the potential of biologic, cell and gene therapies to offer transformative patient outcomes in areas of high unmet medical need by extending the reach of protein, cell, and gene therapies to highly prevalent neurodegenerative disorders like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer’s disease as they are universally fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Our vision is to build a leading gene therapy company for the treatment of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases by progressing our α-Klotho gene therapy research programs and identifying, developing, and commercializing other novel gene therapy treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and other age-related pathologies.
We have assembled a portfolio of gene therapy candidates in partnership with leading scientific institutions and have built a team with extensive experience in the biotechnology commercialization and gene therapy space. Our team will pursue new innovations in vector design and delivery to optimize our investigational gene therapy product candidates for safety, potency, durability, and clinical response. We plan on building integrated internal development capabilities from product development through commercialization and focus on accelerating the pace of product development in the clinic. In addition, as part of our ongoing business strategy, we continue to explore potential opportunities to acquire or license new product candidates as well as opportunities for partnership or collaboration on our existing products in development.
There are currently four technologies managed by our team — (1) A cell therapy and gene therapy platform that uses a gene therapy approach to introduce a human gene that produces a therapeutic protein called “Klotho” inside the body to treat neurodegenerative diseases and other diseases of aging (a platform technology in-licensed from UAB); (2) a proprietary, patented technology platform with a library of melanocortin receptor-binding molecules (in-licensed from Teleost). The Company also acquired a (3) portfolio of “generic” drugs and (4) a license to “biosimilar” biologics technology (in-licensed from RLS) that will allow us to sell hard-to-source, difficult to find generic oncology drugs and off-patent biologic therapies. Our initial focus will be on our gene therapy research and development programs. With an initial focus on the therapeutic potential of the human α-Klotho gene, we find that there is limited competition investigating this target due to our intellectual property position and technology know-how.
Biologics and gene therapies are the future of medicine. Anew Medical, Inc. (“Anew Medical” or “ANEW” was formed in 2021 to develop cutting-edge biologic medicines for the treatment of chronic diseases – cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative disorders. As we age and get older, these diseases become the major cause of death or disablement. There are two wholly-owned subsidiaries under management by the Anew Medical team – Anew Biologics, Inc. uses state-of-the-art biologic therapies to treat cancer – using recombinant proteins made outside the body, and Anew Gene Therapy, Inc. which uses a gene therapy approach to introduce a gene to make therapeutic proteins inside the body – to either block factors causing disease or to replace human genes that have either shut down native protein production or have mutated to produce aberrant proteins that do not function at all.