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Pivoting a Health Startup in a Pandemic

October 6, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Akash Bakshi-Pivoting a Health Startup in a Pandemic

Hear from Akash Bakshi, CEO of YourChoice Therapeutics and now Ana Therapeutics on how he pivoted his Y Combinator-backed startup focussed on developing a male birth control pill to test a COVID-19 treatment. On the 4th of August, the FDA announced that it has cleared the investigational new drug (IND) application for ANA001 (Niclosamide Capsules) as a potential treatment for COVID-19, making it the first U.S.-based company to conduct a human clinical trial to determine the efficacy of Niclosamide to treat COVID-19.

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October 6, 2020
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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