About Immunologik

THE CHALLENGE

Worldwide more than 36 million people live with an HIV infection and thus with the expectation to develop AIDS sooner or later. Despite the available combined antiretroviral therapy, AIDS is far from being defeated. With an array of drugs, the therapy targets viral components and suppresses the replication of the virus and therewith in most cases the outbreak of the fatal AIDS disease. Due to the high mutation rate of the virus, new variations increasingly resistant against the existing drugs arise constantly. Additionally, many drugs cause severe side effects and cannot be permanently taken by a large number of patients. Therefore, despite the modern combined antiretroviral therapy annually around 22 000 HIV-infected alone in Western and Central Europe as well as USA die from the consequences of AIDS.

OUR SOLUTION APPROACH

The ImmunoLogik GmbH develops an innovative lead candidate for the efficient and essential treatment of patients who have exploited all available means of the modern therapy, and who would die due to the unavoidable outbreak of AIDS. The lead candidate targets directly the components of the host cell, which are essential for the replication of HIV. The goal is to significantly reduce the risk of resistant virus variations.

Our Team

The highly qualified ImmunoLogik team

Dr. Christian Setz

Dr. Christian Setz

Chief Executive Officer

• Co-inventor of ImmunoLogik’s lead candidate IML-106
• PhD thesis in molecular virology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• More than 12 years’ experience in virology with focus on HIV
• Former project leader of an independent HIV-1 research group at the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology in Erlangen
• Extensive research contributions in the development of novel antiretroviral strategies by deciphering molecular mechanisms, which regulate the functions of viral proteins and their cellular counterparts
• Scientific publications in leading international science journals
• Numerous active participations in renowned national and international virology congresses

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert

Scientific adviser

• Co-founder of ImmunoLogik GmbH
• Doctoral thesis in biochemistry at the University of Leipzig
• Former group leader and staff scientist at the Department of Medical Immunology of the Medical Faculty of the Charité, Humboldt University Berlin
• Habilitation in “Experimental Virology” at the University of Hamburg
• 10 years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, USA
• Since 2003 professor for virology at the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology in Erlangen
• 88 publications in renowned international science journals and more than 40 patent applications
• Substantially involved in the development of the blockbuster drug VELCADE® (bortezomib) by Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Günter Frankenne

Günter Frankenne

Strategic advisor

• More than 30 years of experience as:
• CEO Sandoz AG, managing director Novartis GmbH and Wander Pharma GmbH
• Committee member and chairman of the Federal Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie)
• Vice chairman of the Association of Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies (Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller)
• 10 years board member of Forum MedTech Pharma

Ekkehard Brysch

Ekkehard Brysch

Board member of Athenion AG and advisor

• Studies of business administration and law at University of Göttingen
• 25 years’ experience in international management consulting
• Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and member of Association of German Management Consultants (Bundesverband DeutscherUnternehmensberater)
• Board member Athenion AG & MetrioPharm AG
• Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and member of Association of German Management Consultants (Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberater)
• Represents Athenion AG as anchor investor
• 15 years’ experience in pharmaceutical development and investment business

ATHENION-GROUP

ATHENION-GROUP

• Successful in the development of pharmaceutical projects for more than 15 years
• Enables ImmunoLogik to gain access to interdisciplinary expert teams from drug development, project and quality management, specialists in business development and patent law
• Preserves necessary corporate infrastructure for the ImmunoLogik for a reasonable price

"Despite the modern combined antiretroviral therapy, annually 22 000 HIV-infected alone in Western and Central Europe as well as USA die from the consequences of AIDS. We founded the ImmunoLogik with the goal to give hope to the patients who have exploited the means of the standard therapy, and cannot be helped by it anymore."

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert

"ImmunoLogik is working on a novel and holistic approach for the treatment of HIV-infected patients, where the standard therapy proves to be largely ineffective. The for the development success important combination of scientific expert knowledge, industry expertise and patent protection is ensured by the close cooperation of science and industry experts. The interdisciplinary team work is an essential basis for the further successful drug development for the benefit of the affected patients."

Günter Frankenne

News

Cooperation contract with university hospital Erlangen extended

September 19, 2018

The ImmunoLogik and the university hospital Erlangen decided to continue their successful cooperation and agreed on an extension of the cooperation contract until September 2019.

The cooperation was and is still an important building block for the development of the innovative lead candidate IML-106 for the efficient and essential treatment of HIV patients who have exploited all available means of the modern therapy and would die due to the unavoidable outbreak of AIDS.

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ImmunoLogik appears on TV science documentary

September 11, 2018

On Thursday September 13th at prime-time 8.15 p.m. the ImmunoLogik represented by Dr. Christian Setz appears on the German television broadcaster 3sat in the science documentary: Medical research on the move.

The documentary examines alternatives forms of funding of pharmaceutical developments. As one of the presented projects, Christian Setz shares his experiences with crowdfunding as he experienced it with ImmunoLogik.

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