
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.