Coastar Therapeutics

Safe drug delivery platform for cancer gene therapy

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Biotechnology
  • Location San Diego, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2017
  • Employees 2
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website coastartherapeutics.com

Company Summary

Coastar Therapeutics is a San Diego based startup focusing on virus delivery platform. We have a novel virus coating platform that can coat human cell membrane on each individual virus to evade immune system recognition and clearance. The company is currently focusing on oncolytic virus coating for cancer immunotherapy, but is also interested in AAV for gene therapy in the future

Team

  • Mr. Chung has 10 years of experience in the field of nanoparticle design, formulation and process development. He has helped several companies reach their seed stage and series A milestones, thereby increased their market cap by about 8 million and 40 million respectively. Mr. Chung received his MS degree in UCSD bioengineering and BS degree in National Tsinghua University biomedical engineering program in 2011.

  • Han has worked on many interdisciplinary projects focusing on integrating synthetic or biological materials with cells to engineer tissue from the micro- to macro-scale. He has helped his previous company raising more than $50,000 in seed funding and received the chance to take part in IndioBio’s accelerator program which included an award for $125k.

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