The first start-up by Bob Ward—The Polymer Technology Group (PTG)—earned a 555X return for investors upon its sale in 2008 to DSM, the global life sciences and materials company. Now, Bob Ward’s swinging away at another potential homerun: ExThera Medical, a Berkeley, California-based company, with its scientific origins at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
The threat of infection in hospital and other treatment facilities have dramatically increased over the last few years. Antibiotics and other therapies have become impotent against certain pathogens and infections, increasing the need for research funding for creating new antibiotics. These three companies have the potential to solve a significant unmet medical need.
An international research team recently reported a breakthrough in the treatment of a life-threatening condition that affects approximately 20 million people per year.
Few people outside the medical profession have even heard of Sepsis, the third most common cause of death for hospitalized patients in the developed world, […]
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