News
MEDiC has successfully raised $8 million in its Seed funding rounds, closed in summer 2023, backed by a diverse group of investors, including Top Harvest Capital, Primer Sazze Partners, Illumina Accelerator, Big Basin Capital, First In Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.
MEDiC Life Sciences Announces Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb on Tumor Target Discovery (June, 2023)
Illumina Accelerator welcomes MEDiC Life Sciences Inc. as one of the first global cohort of genomics startups (June, 2020)
MEDiC received the Grand Prize during the 11th SF Funding Cycle of Illumina Accelerator.
The Prize was awarded to the startup that generates the most data out of all Illumina Accelerator genomics startups. MEDiC set the new record by producing 34Tbs of WGS data from patient-derived cancer organoids.
MEDiC was featured as one of Translational Genomics Innovators in the event hosted by J&J Innovation (Advances in Drug Discovery, May, 2021)
Our Nature paper was featured as the representative discovery platform for novel cancer drug targets in "The Conversation" (April, 2021)
Publications
CRISPR screen platform
Han, K., et al. “Genome-wide CRISPR screens in lung cancer spheroids identify 3D growth specific cancer vulnerabilities.” Nature, 580(7801), 136-141 (2020)
Han, K., Jeng, E.E., Hess, G.T., Morgens, D.W., Li, A. and Bassik, M.C., “Synergistic drug combinations for cancer identified in a CRISPR screen for pairwise genetic interactions.” Nature biotechnology, 35(5), 463 (2017)
3D spheroids culture platform
Lee, H., Stowers, R., and Chaudhuri, O. “Volume expansion and TRPV4 activation regulate stem cell fate in three dimensional microenvironments.” Nature communication 10, 529 (2019)
Lee, H., Gu, L., Mooney, D. J. Levenston, E. M., and Chaudhuri, O. “Mechanical confinement regulates cartilage matrix formation by chondrocytes.” Nature materials 16(12), 1243 (2017)
Chaudhuri, O., Gu, L., Klumpers, D, Darnell, M., Bencherif, S. A., Weaver, J. C., Huebsch, N., Lee, H., Lippens, E., Duda G. N., and Mooney, D. J. “Hydrogels with tunable stress relaxation properties to regulate stem cell fate and activity.” Nature materials 15 (3), 326 (2016)
