Sherine Abdelmawla - Akanocure

<p>Angel Scale Biotech: <a href= "https://syndicate.angelinvestboston.com/en-us/the-surge-of-opportunities-in-angel-scale-biotech"> Learn More</a></p> <p>Sherine Abdelmawla, PhD, founded Akanocure Pharmaceuticalsto combine chemistryand AI in a platform for discovering effective drugs that can be easily produced at scale. The first use case is a cancer therapy. Great chat with a compelling founder.</p> <p>Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highlights:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sal Daher Introduces Sherine Abdelmawla</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Akanocure Pharmaceuticals is Doing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"... The challenge is ... logistically speaking, manufacturing antibodies, they have problems with pharmacokinetics. Can we have a small molecule that can do the job of that antibody? ..."</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Collaboration in the Lab Vs. Collaboration in the Field</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Business Model for Akanocure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"... interrupting the process that the cancer uses for hijacking the production of lipid fats to create its own version, a lipid shell that has particular features that make it really hard to detect the cancer..."</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sherine's Backstory</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why Research?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“...Science is hard enough, but on top of it, doing science with