Day 2

Showcase: Orion Therapeutics

April 22, 2025 1:05–1:25 PM
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Orion Therapeutics is a delivery platform-enabled RNA therapeutics company. We pair a proprietary lipid nanoparticle GENESYS™ delivery platform that entirely excludes ionizable cationic lipids with a vascular RNA therapy pipeline. Our safe, versatile, scalable, and targeted delivery platform can be leveraged across a broad range of disease applications to advance RNA therapies to market internally and in partnership.

Showcase: Annate Bitherapeutics, Inc

April 22, 2025 1:30–1:50 PM
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Annate Bitherapeutics is developing a therapeutic platform that utilizes ApoL1, a naturally occurring component of the innate immune system. It is guided by our proprietary bispecific antibodies to become selectively lethal to cancer cells. This innovative mechanism complements existing therapies, with strong efficacy in multiple myeloma and promising preclinical results in pancreatic cancer models, demonstrating the platform’s broad potential across multiple tumor types.

Showcase: Azome Therapeutics, Inc.

April 22, 2025 1:55–2:15 PM
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Azome is developing first in class drugs to revolutionize the treatment of severe inflammatory diseases and injuries including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), exacerbations in idiopathic lung fibrosis (ILF), acute lung injury, acute kidney injury, and sepsis for which there are currently no preventative and a limited set of therapeutic options.

Showcase: Empath Biosciences, Inc

April 22, 2025 2:35–2:55 PM
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Empath Biosciences has developed a revolutionary drug discovery platform that overcomes barriers to scaling therapeutics from nature’s biodiversity, de-risks each step of the development process, and efficiently yields novel therapeutics. The lead, proof-of-principle chemical series is currently in IND-enabling studies and scheduled to be in the clinic in 2026.

Cocktail Reception and Networking on the Rooftop – PROOF!

April 22, 2025 4:15–6:00 PM
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PROOF RooRooftop -  The W Hotel Nashville

Join the innovators and investors attending the Southeast Venture Showcase at PROOF! This spectacular indoor/outdoor space on top of The W Hotel features 270-degree views of downtown Nashville, plus local beers, delectable light bites and a bespoke menu of craft cocktails. Enjoy local music and take in eye-catching art like Reverie, a morphing-light sculpture by Nashville-based Cour Design. Or admire iconic photographs from Jim Marshall, known as the "godfather of rock 'n roll photography."