Medikine
Founders
Ronald W. Barrett, Ph.D. - CEO
William J. Dower, Ph.D. - Founder & CSO
Michael C. Needels, Ph.D. - Founder & COO
Founded
2009
Stage
Seed-2
Invested
2018
Status
Private
Lightspeed Team
Dr. Shelley Chu - Partner

Medikine utilizes a proprietary platform to identify agonists of clinically relevant heterodimeric cytokine receptors for the development of novel therapeutics for immuno-oncology applications in cell therapy and neo-antigen vaccines.

Dr. Shelley Chu
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