Ernest Pharmaceuticals

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Nele Van Dessel, PhD
Co-Founder and CSO

Vishnu Raman, PhD
Co-Founder and CSO

Neil Forbes, PhD
Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor

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Engineered Bacteria to Treat Advanced Cancer

Ernest Pharmaceuticals seeks to create a novel bacterial platform that revolutionizes cancer treatment success through innovations in intracellular macromolecule delivery. 

Therapeutic bacteria have unique properties that enable them to treat metastatic disease and inoperable tumors. These organisms are motile and actively penetrate into tumor tissue.  

Ernest Pharmaceuticals’ focus is on tumors with low survival rates, such as liver, pancreas, ovarian and metastatic breast cancer. For these patients, very few therapeutic possibilities exist that greatly improve overall survival time. Bacterial cancer therapies have the potential to change these high mortality rates.

Associated Facility / Faculty / Staff
    • Professor of Chemical Engineering 

    Neil St. John Forbes

    Department of Chemical Engineering
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    N525 Life Sciences Laboratories
    240 Thatcher Rd
    Amherst MA 01003-9364

    (413) 577-0132
    forbes@ecs.umass.edu
    www.umass.edu/engineering/about/directory/neil-st-john-forbes

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