Accelerating Drug Development With Real World Data

By Matthew Pillar, Editor, Bioprocess Online

​Ten years ago, Pete DeMuth was wrapping up his Ph.D. in biological engineering at MIT. In parallel, the lab at MIT was watering the sprout of a biotech business rooted in a simple hypothesis—the idea that precisely targeting vaccines to the right location in the body is critical for generating robust immunity against cancer. This was more than an exercise in academic research. Driven by the recognition that vaccines and immunotherapy were not as effective as expected, the newly minted DeMuth co-founded Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. to explore why that was.