San Francisco, California, United States
Armand Cognetta, Matthias Pauthner
2019
50
Private company
Seed
The Longevity Fund, Y Combinator
Loss of proteostasis
multispecifics
Weatherwax Biotechnologies is a seed-stage drug discovery platform company developing the next generation of induced-proximity medicines. The founders, Armand Cognetta and Matthias Pauthner, earned their PhD’s at Scripps Research in San Diego in the renowned labs of Ben Cravatt and Dennis Burton, and published a combined 50+ papers in high ranking academic journals, including Cell, Nature, Science and The New England Journal of Medicine, and additionally hold numerous patents in the drug discovery space. Weatherwax further has a remarkable board of advisors including Martin Babler, John Clarke, Laura Deming, Uri Lopatin, Brent Stockwell as well as other high ranking academic and industry opinion leaders.