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Regulating the immune system to block cancer & autoimmune diseases

Summer 2021Founded 20164 peoplePhiladelphia, PA, USA
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SFA Therapeutics is creating therapeutically-tailored oral drugs that regulate the immune system; with a focus on autoimmune diseases and cancers that originate from chronic inflammation. There are over 300 million patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases. Our treatment is designed to block the root cause of many of these chronic inflammatory diseases, with safe oral drugs. We have strong clinical data from a phase 1b clinical trial in psoriasis, and human data in pancreatic cancer, uveitis and NASH. we have a total of 9 drugs in our pipeline and 15 patents.

Founders ยท 3

Ira Spector
Ira SpectorFounder
๐ŸŽ“ Washington University

Dr. Spector is the co-founder of SFA, a microbiome-derived pharmaceutical company focused on new advancements in the treatment inflammatory diseases. An experienced drug developer with over 30 years of experience, he helped develop 34 drugs and 12 medical devices, including Enbrel, Effexor, Protonix, Prevenar, Ozurdex, Botox for Overactive Bladder, Chronic Migraine and Cerebral Palsy. He holds BS degrees in Physics and EE from Washington University, an MBA from Drexel, and a PhD from Rutgers.

Alla Arzumanyan
Alla ArzumanyanFounder
๐ŸŽ“ Temple University

MS is Microbiology, PhD in Biotechnology, Assistant Professor at Temple University, Co-Founder and Co-Inventor at SFA Therapeutics, Inc. Performed a case-control, Proof-of-Activity Human study to evaluate treatment effect of SFA002 drug (proprietary of SFA Therapeutics, Inc.) on patients with plaque psoriasis. Worked with Axella Research on pre-IND application for SFA002. Worked with HEC (Sunshine Lake Pharma Co., China), Theravectys, and ThirdLaw LLC (still collaborating with the latter)

Mark Feitelson
Mark FeitelsonFounder
StanfordUCLA๐ŸŽ“ Stanford University๐ŸŽ“ Thomas Jefferson University๐ŸŽ“ Temple University

Mark Feitelson received his Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology from UCLA. He began his work with hepatitis B at Stanford University, and was then recruited to the Fox Chase Cancer Center by Dr. Baruch Blumberg (Nobel laureate). In 1991, Dr. Feitelson moved to Thomas Jefferson University, and in 2007, to Temple University as a Professor of Biology. His work has been supported by NIH, industry and foundations. He has more than 150 publications and 180 abstracts. He is also CSO of SFA Therapeutics.

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