REYKJAVIK, Iceland– EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of this year’s Rising Star Award at the Swedish American Life Sciences Summit (SALSS). EpiEndo is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on a novel barrier enhancing approach to the treatment of chronic inflammatory airway diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The SALSS Rising Star Award recognizes a life science company with the potential to revolutionize and influence a global market and was presented in Stockholm on Friday the 22nd of October to Maria Bech, CEO and Dr Fridrik Gardarsson, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of EpiEndo, by Barbro Ehnbom, Founder and Chairman of SALSS.
“We are both honoured and very proud to receive this prestigious award,” commented Maria Bech, CEO of EpiEndo Pharma, “The SALSS Rising Star Award endorses our potential to impact COPD, one of the world’s major diseases, as well as the relevance and applicability of the unique clinical platform that we are building around the science of epithelial integrity.”
The SALSS 2021 distinguished international panel of judges for the award comprised:
- Dr. Robert Langer, Koch Institute Professor, MIT and co-founder of Moderna
- Dr. Mathias Uhlén, Professor, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and multiple biotechnology entrepreneur
- Dr. Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research & Development, Pfizer
- Dr. Eugen Steiner, Venture Partner, Stockholm-based venture capital firm HealthCap
The judges assessed scientific and medical innovation, potential for healthcare impact, stage of commercial realization and environmental impact and concluded:
“The winner of SALSS 2021 Rising Stars is EpiEndo for its level of innovation and potential impact in COPD, one of the leading causes of debilitating disease and death globally. EpiEndo is developing a candidate drug with a novel mode of action that, if successfully brought to the patients, could change the treatment paradigm for COPD. EpiEndo won the top scores from all judges in the criteria of level of scientific and medical innovation and potential for healthcare impact, giving it the lead over competitors.”
SALSS is an exclusive, invitation-only conference that attracts some of the life science industry’s most cutting-edge researchers, visionary entrepreneurs, prominent business leaders and investors. SALSS aims to facilitate integration and collaboration between the attendees to allow for the creation of strategic relations that may further the global life science industry. This year’s theme at SALSS was cell and gene therapy, as well as the COVID pandemic.
