| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.01.2023 | ‘A Little Company With A Big Vision’: Temple Spinout Advancing New Way To Treat Autoimmune Disorders | A Temple University spinout working on a new way to treat autoimmune disorders has been approved to begin human testing of a potential treatment for an inflammatory liver disease.
SFA Therapeutics of Jenkintown received Food and Drug Admini... |
| 17.10.2022 | Dr. Daniel Sauder joins the SFA Therapeutics Scientific Advisory Board | Daniel Sauder, MD
An experienced Key Opinion Leader in Dermatology, Dr. Sauder will add significant input to the dermatology development program at SFA Therapeutics
I am most enthusiastic about working with the talented team at SFA. Their m... |
| 20.06.2022 | SFA THERAPEUTICS, INC. CLOSES SEED ROUND RAISE of $4M | Treating the root cause of autoimmune disease™
Funds are focused on Phase 1b clinical trial in psoriasis
SFA Therapeutics wishes to thank our lead investors for the confidence that they have shown in our new approach to the treatment of aut... |
| 24.01.2022 | Ben Franklin Approved $2.4M in 12 Early Stage Companies | |
| 06.01.2022 | Pismo Ventures' National Venture Plan Startup Competition Announces Winners | National Startup Competition by Pismo Ventures - Winners Announced “For the second year in a row, we were able to provide a truly unique experience for startup businesses within different industries while providing them access and exposure ... |
| 01.09.2021 | Here are all the companies from Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day | Welcome back to TechCrunch’s continuing coverage of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day! This is Day Two. If you haven’t caught up yet on what happened during the first day, you can read our recap of all the presenting companies here, our f... |
| 24.08.2021 | Y Combinator startup Lumify Care, cofounded by a Penn grad, is the accelerator’s first nurse-led team | Like many 2021 graduates, University of Pennsylvania alum Anthony Scarpone-Lambert knew he’d be entering a pandemic-tinged workforce.
For former nursing students like him, their real-world experience has been wholly consumed by the coronavi... |
| 13.07.2021 | These Philly Startups Were Accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Cohort | Therapeutics company SFA Therapeutics, Inc. and AI-based customer-facing calls startup q&ai joined the summer 2021 batch. This summer session includes 152 companies from five continents, and startups offering services in industries such... |
| 12.07.2021 | These Philly startups were accepted into Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort | Two Philadelphia-based startups are participating in the prominent Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator this summer for its second summer of virtual sessions running from June through August.
Therapeutics company SFA Therapeutics, Inc. a... |
| 13.05.2021 | To expand or not to expand? Houston researcher weighs in on global growth | You built your business from the ground up, patiently finding techniques and products that work, carefully crafting solid bonds with your clients. Then one day a new project, opportunity or simple request poses a question: Is it time to bra... |
| 11.05.2021 | Global accelerator announces 5 startups to its Houston cohort | Five Houston companies have been tapped to participate in a Houston-based, early-stage startup accelerator with a national presence.
The accelerator, gBETA, selected the five Houston companies out of over 85 applicants. The cohort represent... |
| 10.05.2021 | Energy giant makes Houston sole headquarters in massive move | Power player NRG Energy is laser focused on Houston. The Bayou City will be the energy giant's new sole headquarters; the company will no longer split between Houston and Princeton, New Jersey.
The move to a single headquarters simplifies b... |
| 05.03.2021 | Photos: Here's a sneak peek at The Ion Houston's construction progress | The Ion Houston is expected to open its doors this year, and the building's exterior is close to completion. Now, the construction team is focusing on interiors and then tenant build outs.
The 270,000-square-foot coworking and innovation hu... |
| 27.01.2021 | Rice University competition to link veterans with NextSeed investors | Rice University's Business Veterans Association has helped military veteran raise more that $3.5 million in investments over the last seven years through it's annual pitch competition. And this year, the stakes are even higher.
The Veterans... |
| 28.12.2020 | Editor's Picks: Top 10 Houston startup feature stories of the year | Editor's note: As 2020 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. This past year, InnovationMap featured profiles on dozens of these Houston startups — from blockchain and software compa... |
| 22.12.2020 | Here are the top 5 Houston startup venture capital deals in 2020 | Editor's note: As 2020 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. When it came to the money raised in Houston, these five startups raised the most, according to reporting done by Innovat... |
| 16.11.2020 | Houston organization names 10 most promising life sciences startups | Last week, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship gathered over 1,000 life science experts and attendees virtually for thought leadership as well as 40 company presentations.
The three-day 2020 Virtual Texas Life Science Foru... |
| 04.08.2020 | Houston tech companies have raised over $466M so far this year, new report finds | This year might be a wash for a lot of things, but according to a new fundraising report from Houston Exponential, the Bayou City has seen an increase in funding this year compared to 2019.
The HTX Funding Review found that Houston startups... |
| 18.06.2020 | Ben Franklin Backs Founders Fighting COVID-19 and its Effects | As part of the Save Our Startups initiative, made possible with support from the Department of Community and Economic Development, Ben Franklin has committed a total of $100,000 in grants to 15 early-stage companies for development of techn... |
| 26.05.2020 | Houston startup raises $10M, A&M names TMC campus, and more innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been booming with news, and it's likely some might have fallen through the cracks. From a Texas university naming its burgeoning new campus to a Houston SaaS startup with fresh funds, here are some short s... |
| 31.05.2019 | SFA Therapeutics to Present Human Psoriasis Data for Microbiome-based Drug (SFA002) at the Global Biotech Entrepreneur Forum and the BIO International Convention | Also Presenting Preclinical Data on Two Additional Pipeline Products
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 31, 2019–
SFA Therapeutics, Inc. will be presenting human Psoriasis data on its human-microbiome-based drug (SFA002) as well as pre-clinic... |
| 19.03.2019 | SFA Therapeutics Wins Second Key U.S. Patent For Treatment of Chronic Liver Diseases | As a result of this new patent, targeting Ffar2 (GPR43) and Ffar3 (GPR441) and down-regulation of NF-ĸB, the therapeutic applications of SFA’s first major drug, SFA001, will now expand from prevention of the progression of hepatitis B to he... |
| 19.03.2019 | SFA Therapeutics Wins Second Key U.S. Patent For Treatment of Chronic Liver Diseases | Targets Liver Cancer
JENKINTOWN, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 19, 2019–
SFA Therapeutics today announced approval of the second key U.S. patent derived from its research & development program, which utilizes microbiome-derived metabolite s... |
| 05.12.2018 | SFA Therapeutics Wins U.S. Patent for Use of Short Chain Fatty Acids in Cancer Prevention | New Treatment for Hepatitis B
JENKINTOWN, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–December 5, 2018–
SFA Therapeutics is pleased to announce approval of our first key patent in our research and development program, using microbiome-derived metabolite small mole... |
| 31.07.2018 | Ben Franklin Approved 1.8M in 14 Early Stage Companies | |
| - | SFA Therapeutics (Life Sciences, '19-20) has announced exciting progress in their Phase 1b trial results for their oral dug medication SFA-002, aiming at mild to moderate psoriasis. | - |
| - | SFA Therapeutics | “SFAtx – A New Paradigm for Treating Chronic Inflammatory Disease” |
