BioInnovation Institute (BII) and Texas Medical Center (TMC) jointly announced the selection of four companies for the second Danish cohort to join a tailored TMC Innovation Accelerator program. This initiative aims to facilitate market expansion into the US by fostering strategic partnerships, promoting clinical innovation, and cultivating research collaborations within the vibrant TMC ecosystem, the world’s largest medical complex renowned for its healthcare expertise and resources..
The selected companies and their specialties include:
Metsystem aims to transform cancer care by predicting the most effective drug for individual patients using an innovative metastasis-targeting drug screen platform.
“NILS BRÜNNER, FORMER FRONTMAN OF SCANDION ONCOLOGY, RETURNS TO THE MANAGEMENT OF A BIOTECH COMPANY.”
For the last 9 months,
Metsystem has enjoyed the sage advice of our trusted medical advisor,
Nils Brünner.
Today, we officially welcome him onboard as Chief Medical Officer!
We are grateful for such a valuable addition to our team!
Nils Brünner, MD, DMSc is a key opinion leader in the field of drug resistance in cancer. He has authored more than 370 scientific papers, mostly focusing on translational cancer research. He has developed many of the drug-resistant cancer cell lines that are used in drug developmental research today. Dr. Brünner has deep experience translating research breakthroughs into the clinic.
He trained in internal medicine and medical oncology in Copenhagen and in molecular and cellular biology at the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, MD, USA and
Lombardi Cancer Ctr, Washington DC, USA. In 2002, he became a full Professor at University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. He is now Professor Emeritus. Dr. Brunner co-founded
Scandion Oncology and Oncology Ventures A/S; he served on the Board of Directors of
WntResearch AB,
2cureX – Individualizing Cancer Treatment, and
Scandion Oncology; and he’s currently CEO of 3B-Oncology. Today, we are delighted to announce him as CMO of
Metsystem.
Welcome, Nils!
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BII is a non-profit accelerator/incubator, backed by a €470m donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. It backs pre-seed and pre-investment startups, including disease diagnostics startup Rapidemic and cancer treatment platform Metsystem.
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Metsystem receives injection of funds to validate cancer metastasis prognosis platform
MEDWATCH 22.3.2023
Entrepreneurs create prognosis service for hospitals: Will identify patients at high risk of metastases.
Newly founded Metsystem aims to make its prognosis service available in 2025 initially to hospitals in Denmark, but later abroad and to pharmaceutical companies as a test of their cancer treatment in the preclinical stage.
