Our technologies

Kidney-targeted lipid nanoparticle technology and an intelligent drug design platform, enabling de-risked, scalable, and affordable therapeutics

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Targeted Drug Delivery Technology

Proprietary lipid nanoparticle for in vivo kidney delivery

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Epic-Cure Drug Design Platform

Intelligent end-to-end therapeutic designer

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Targeted Drug Delivery Technology

Leveraging the potential of nonviral delivery for greater safety and scalability of advanced therapeutics

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Lipid nanoparticles are revolutionizing genetic payload delivery

Targeted Delivery

Therapeutic payloads are directed to specific organs and cells, ensuring targeted delivery beyond the liver

Lower Immunogenicity

Minimize immune responses and eliminate the risk of insertional mutagenesis linked with viral vectors

Scalability

Greater scalability than viral vectors due to their simpler production processes and the ability to be synthesized in larger quantities more efficiently

Ionizable Lipid

Cholestrol

Neutral Phospholipid

PEG Lipid

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Achieving kidney tropism with proprietary lipid and lipid nanoparticles

Novel Ionizable Lipids

Ionizable lipids with defined ionization economy, high stability, and lower toxicity

Biology Driven LNP Design

LNP designed for reabsorption route, escaping glomerular filtration to be taken up by target cell types

Tuning LNP parameters

Size, charge, and PEGylation of the LNPs designed toachieve target tissue and cell tropism

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Epic-Cure Drug Design Platform

We customize drug design for the target cell types and disease backgrounds in order to develop de-risked therapeutics

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Enabling intelligent, end-to-end drug design for targeted, safer, and curative therapeutics

Target Identification

Our AI-driven engine identifies the right targets for each disease through a rigorous evaluation framework- integrating target validation, safety of manipulation, druggability, and potential patient population coverage.

Modality Selection

For each validated target, Epic-Cure™ systematically evaluates the strengths and risks of different therapeutic approaches. Modalities include gene therapy, genome editing, mRNA supplementation, RNA editing, and more, ensuring selection of the best-fit modality.

Therapeutic Cargo Design

Epic-Cure™ then designs and customizes therapeutic cargo tailored to the target cell type and disease context, enabling higher precision and safety. For genome editing, the platform incorporates a smart guide RNA designer to maximize accuracy and minimize off-target effects.

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Scalable & programmable Helex platform

Helex platform is built on proprietary bioinformatics and intelligent AI powered systems to identify unique sequences on the gene, or in the gene context to edit or modulate genes cell specifically. The platform enables the design of appropriate gene editing apparatus considering efficiency, safety including long term impact of the editing event.

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Leveraging nature's own operating system

Every cell has the same DNA. However, different cells behave differently due to their epigenetics and the 3-D spatial structure of the genome. These parameters give us a unique opportunity to build greater precision in gene editing. Moreover, these epigenetic marks and 3Dspatial organization dictate the impact of genome editing in the short and long term.

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Scalable and programmable guide-RNA design technology for genome editors

Helex’s EPIC-Cure technology is built on proprietary cell and disease-specific 3D genome data, which improves the specificity of editing and minimizes off-target effects. The platform’s targeted guide-RNA design coupled with comprehensive guide-RNA safety analysis makes the approach to drug design highly efficient and safer for clinical applications. EPIC-Cure can be used to design short guide-RNAs for various genome editors.

Comprehensive safety assessment of post-editing events

3D safety measurements

EPIC-Cure platform’s integrative analysis looks at impact on changes in structure, chromatin accessibility, chromosome neighborhoods, transcription factories to estimate long-term safety.

2D safety measurements

Current industry measures off-target across the genome based on sequence homology; in exonic, intronic regions, cancer causing hotspots.

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Combining the precision of lipid nanoparticle delivery with next-generation drug design technology to accelerate and de-risk the drug development process for multiple genetic conditions

Pipeline

Clinical Indication

Discovery

IND Enabling

Clinical Trials

Pre-clinical

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

(due to mutations in PKD1 gene)

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

(due to mutations in PKD2 gene)

Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease

Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease

We actively seek strategic partnerships to
expand our delivery technology to other
kidney indications

If you would like to discuss an opportunity with Helex, please email contact@helex.bio