- The agreement with GEDiCube rebrands the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary under the name Renovaro.AI
- The combined company brings together two innovative platforms in AI and biotherapeutics to offer comprehensive solutions spanning early detection, diagnostic insights, and targeted immunotherapies, for cancer and other diseases
- The AI division intends to launch commercial products for early cancer detection and improved therapy selection in 2024 – rapidly expanding the largely untapped precision medicine market
In September, Renovaro Biosciences (NASDAQ: RENB), an advanced, preclinical biotechnology company focused on cell, gene, and immunotherapy, and GEDiCube Intl Ltd., an AI medical technology company, announced a definitive agreement for combination. Under the stock-for-stock agreement, GEDiCube will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renovaro. The company’s CEO, Dr. Mark Dybul, MD, recently sent a letter to Renovaro shareholders to provide an update on the union – sharing the vision of the combination and expressing appreciation for their ongoing support and investment (https://ibn.fm/yFhPk).
“We believe GEDiCube’s AI technology will enhance and accelerate the development of treatments we are currently pursuing as well as power the discovery of new therapeutic approaches for cancer and other diseases,” press releases from the combination announcement quote Dr. Dybul as saying (https://ibn.fm/V1UyG). “The combined company will have independent operating divisions that will allow each technology to move as quickly as possible to commercialization while the collaboration between divisions will aim to drive new advances in both AI and medicine.”
According to Dr. Dybul, the AI division intends to launch commercial products for early cancer detection and improved therapy selection in 2024 – rapidly expanding the precision medicine market, which Renovaro is positioned to capture a substantial share of the largely untapped market.
The immunotherapy division plans to start Phase 1/2 trials of its lead asset in the second half of 2024, a breakthrough approach Dr. Dybul believes could lead to emergency use authorization as soon as the end of 2027 – following the results of a Phase 2 clinical trial that will transform treatment for cancers with low survival rates, like pancreatic cancer.
The combined company brings together two innovative platforms in AI and biotherapeutics to offer comprehensive solutions spanning early detection, diagnostic insights, and targeted immunotherapies. GEDiCube’s award-winning AI technology has already shown the ability to detect lung cancer early with 95% accuracy by analyzing complex molecular data. The company’s proprietary platform searches for patterns across genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and other omics layers to identify informative biomarkers for over 12 cancers thus far. The company will rebrand as Renovaro.AI as outlined in the combination agreement.
Renovaro’s strength is its advanced immunotherapy platform focused initially on some of the deadliest solid tumor cancers that have seen only marginal improvement in survival rates over the past several decades. The company’s patented approach modifies allogeneic dendritic cells to stimulate anti-tumor immunity specific to a patient’s genetic profile. Remarkably, Renovaro’s personalized vaccine technology has shown an 80-90% reduction in tumor size, and the company expects to start human trials during the second half of 2024.
In his letter to the company’s shareholders, Dr. Dybul underlines that, like any cutting-edge company, there will be challenges ahead – but that the need has never been greater for transformative solutions that the combination of Renovaro and GEDiCube can provide. Dr. Dybul believes that there is a vision, technology, and talent that can transform how cancer is detected and managed early on. The companies have an opportunity and responsibility to fundamentally transform the lives of patients and families across the globe and help define the future of medicine.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.RenovaroBio.com.
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