Duracyte

Clinical-Stage Company | Advancing implantable drug factories with novel combination biologics

Cell therapy's core limitation is durability. Engineered cells exhaust and disappear, leaving patients vulnerable to relapse. Duracyte's HAMMR platform bypasses that problem entirely: implantable biohybrid pharmacy devices that enable continuous therapeutic protein production inside the body.

Lead indication is recurrent platinum resistant ovarian cancer. Manufacturing infrastructure is in place with GMP partners. A partnership with MD Anderson provides a direct clinical pathway.

Progress

  • ARPA-H committed $45 million

  • Multiple interactions with FDA including PreIND Meeting

  • IND enabling activities underway

  • Phase 1 trial advancing to the clinic

Paul Wotton

Dr. Paul K. Wotton received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Nottingham and is an experienced CEO, Board Member, named inventor and entrepreneur. He has extensive experience in strategic growth management, business transactions and product development. Dr. Wotton serves on the Board of Directors of Vericel Corporation (NASDAQ: VCEL), Cynata Therapeutics (ASX: CYP), Kytopen (Chairman), Combined Therapeutics and is a Co-Founder and Director of Avenge Bio., a clinical stage biotechnology company. Dr. Wotton was President and CEO of Ocata Therapeutics(NASDAQ:OCAT) until its acquisition by AstellasPharma in 2016. Paul was named as a “Top 100 Innovation CEO” by World Biz Magazine and won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Regional (NJ) Life Sciences award in 2014.