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Cleveland Clinic's First Biotech Company

June 13, 1994 7:00 AM UTC

The Cleveland Clinic has established its first biotech company, Cellect Therapeutics Inc., based on an antisense oligonucleotide conjugated with the enzyme activator 2-5A.

The Castle Group arranged a private placement of $5 million from qualified retail investors, and has set up a holding company and management group, Atlantic Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Northbrook, Ill.), to oversee Cellect and three other Castle Group companies. The other companies are Beacon Discovery Inc., a drug discovery company with central nervous system diseases as its initial focus; Channel Therapeutics Inc., a drug development company targeting cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases; and Headland Technologies Inc., an ophthalmic device company. Atlantic CEO Laurence Shaw will be interim CEO of Cellect...