Avilar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of extracellular protein degraders, a new frontier in targeted protein degradation. Avilar develops ATACs (ASGPR Targeting Chimeras), a new class of protein degrader therapeutics that shuttle disease-causing proteins from circulation to the endolysosome where the unwanted proteins are degraded. Avilar has built a proprietary ATAC platform that includes novel, high-affinity, small molecule ASGPR ligands and advanced modeling of the biophysics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of ATAC-mediated endocytosis and degradation. The ATAC platform enables the modular design and synthesis of ATACs extendable across the extracellular proteome to a wide range of proteins involved in the pathogenesis of human diseases. Avilar is leveraging the ATAC platform to create a broad and diverse pipeline of first-in-class extracellular protein degraders. Avilar was founded and financed by RA Capital Management and based in Waltham, MA.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Waltham
Employees: 11-50
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| 07.03.2023 | Medical Ex... | medexcelca... |
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| 16.02.2023 | Avilar Therapeutics Nabs $75M | WALTHAM, MA, Avilar Therapeutics increases financing round to $75 million. >> Click here for more funding data on Avilar Therapeutics >> To export Avilar Therapeutics funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Avilar Thera... |
| 16.02.2023 | Avilar Therapeutics Increases Seed Financing to $75M | Avilar Therapeutics, a Waltham, MA-based biopharmaceutical company focused on extracellular protein degradation, increased Seed funding to $75M. The round, which had initial funding from Avilar’s founding investor RA Capital Management, was... |
| - | Avilar Therapeutics | “We are developing ATACs (ASGPR Targeting Chimeras), a novel class of degrader designed to harness a natural endogenous process for protein degradation.” |