Stem Cell Theranostics is a privately held
biotech
Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists in the field are kn ...
company based out of
Redwood City, California
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area of Northern California, approximately south of San Francisco and northwest of San Jose, California, San Jose. The city's population was 84,292 accor ...
that provides drug companies with a method to more accurately predict cardiotoxicity and cardiovascular drug efficacy.
History
Stem Cell Theranostics was one of the first med tech startup to come out of the
StartX
StartX is a non-profit startup accelerator and founder community associated with Stanford University.
It was founded by Cameron Teitelman and Dan Ha in 2011.
It began as a spin-off of Stanford Student Enterprises, the non-profit financial a ...
incubator program. The company uses technology developed at Stanford, to create a "
clinical trial
Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...
in a dish" drug screening platform, which reduces the risk of
drug development
Drug development is the process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery. It includes preclinical research on microorganisms and animals, filing for regu ...
. The company currently works with drug discovery and biotechnology companies to use patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells for development of novel therapeutics.
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External links
*{{Official website
Companies based in Redwood City, California
Biotechnology companies established in 2011
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2011 establishments in California