BioScience Managers and Cynata

[Image opens on a city skyline against an overcast sky. Images move to street level, where Kilian Kelly is walking with a briefcase and enters an office building. Image changes to Kilian in an office talking to camera and text appears: Kilian Kelly, CEO, Cynata Therapeutics. Image changes to Kilian walking up a staircase to enter a meeting room. Two women are seated at the table and there is a large screen displaying a presentation of Cynata Therapeutics]

Kilian Kelly: BioScience Managers and Cynata Therapeutics are working together on next generation stem cell therapies to change the lives of millions of people around the world living with serious medical disorders. So we are currently developing our products to treat four very different clinical conditions.

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One of them is osteoarthritis of the knee, which is a condition where the cartilage in the knee joint degenerates over time.

The second is a condition called acute graft-versus-host disease, which is a complication of bone marrow transplantation, which is a procedure that's used to treat certain blood cancers, like leukemia and lymphoma.

The third condition is called diabetic foot ulcers. This is a condition in chronic diabetics, where they have very poor blood flow in their lower limbs, and it can lead to these non-healing wounds on their feet, which can cause a lot of problems, including amputation.

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And, finally, we have a product for patients receiving a kidney transplant, and the aim of this one is to help prevent the rejection of the transplanted kidney in these patients.

The Cymerus technology is a new way of making stem cell therapies consistently and at scale.

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The importance of it is that conventional ways of making stem cell therapies rely on an ongoing supply of new donors. So we have a stem cell bank that came from one blood donor on one occasion, and we can keep making our product on an ongoing basis from that same stem cell bank.

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The reason that that's important is it means that we can do it very consistently, 'cause we're using the same starting material every time, and it's also hugely scalable. So we believe that we can use this process to mass-produce these therapies, and allow them to be used by many patients, millions of patients, around the world.

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Jeremy Curnock Cook: BioScience Managers is an investment group that looks after the deployment of money into healthcare programs and projects and development.

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It's a very exciting space, particularly the context of changing the face of medicine, the whole idea of making people better, the whole idea of improving healthcare.

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Jeremy: Scientists need help to build companies, because building them is complicated. Most who come up with the ideas, they rarely ask themselves how that is going to be manufactured? How is it going to be made? How will it be delivered? How is it going to be used by the doctors?

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That's what we try and answer for them. Support of the Biomedical Translation Fund has allowed BioScience Managers to invest in a company like Cynata, and ultimately deliver a great outcome for Australia in Medicine. The future depends upon those sorts of innovations at the investment-level, being repeated and continued.

[Image of Kilian Kelly speaking to camera followed by a close-up of a laptop screen displaying a ‘Cynata Therapeutics’ presentation. Image changes to a close-up of his hands typing and then back to Kilian working on a laptop, and a close-up of his laptop screen displaying ‘A New Standard In Cell Therapy’.]

Kilian Kelly: In order to take a product from discovery right through to commercial launch, ultimately, what we need to do is to convince regulatory authorities that we can make the product consistently, and that we have clinical evidence that it's both safe and effective.

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The future for Cynata is extremely bright, we are positioned to be the leading stem cell and regenerative medicine company, and that's thanks to the funding from BioScience Managers and the Biomedical Translation Fund.

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