Luminous Therapeutics

Luminous mission is to develop saRNA-based vaccines for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and to provide at an “Operation-Warp Speed” and at low cost to US and to low to middle income countries (LMIC) throughout the world. Our platform technology is flexible and a plug-and-play cassette technology that canbe used to produce a range of different target antigens.

Luminous Therapeutics is an early startup focusing on genetic medicine and infectious diseases with advanced scientific technology and located in Maryland about 20 min away from US FDA main campus.

There are about 10,000 known and registered genetic rare diseases affecting approximately 400 million people worldwide. Rare diseases represent a substantial unmet medical need for patients and development of new therapeutic tools to treat rare diseases are often not considered profitable and too expensive. The majority of current treatments are based on protein-targeting chemicals and small molecules, which frequently show limited efficiency because of their short half-life, poor target affinity, and ineffective cell penetration, which can result in drug resistance. Nucleic acid based treatments including RNA Editing may provide better therapeutic options that aim to fix the genetic problem at its source by modifying and repairing the disease causing gene’s transcript. RNA editing is inherently safer to develop since it is reversible and does not permanently alter the genetic code. We are excited about the RNA editing space and the potential for development of a new class therapy for multiple orphan rare diseases.

Our saRNA vaccine platform has higher manufacturing productivity and lower cost per dose compared to mRNA vaccines. The self-replicating strategy has the advantage of achieving longer-term antigen expression and a much higher level of antigen expression at lower mRNA

OUR TEAM

We have an industry leading management team and senior advisors with significant experience in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, immunology and rare disease.

Our PI has over 30 years of experience in infectious diseases and vaccine discovery as well as animal models for assessing delivery, immunogenicity, and challenge models.

Our technology development PI’s have extensive experience and knowledge related to LNP formulations and targeted delivery of saRNA.

Our CMC team has broad experience in cGMP manufacturing of vaccines that have been used in human phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials and Commercial Productions in United States, Europe, and Australia.