After receiving over 40 applications and going through a rigorous decision process, the finalists for the Start-up Pitch Event have been selected!

Each one of these finalists will have the opportunity to pitch on stage in the 8th AMR Conference. The live competition will take place in Basel, on the 6th March 2024 at 6 pm CET.

Here you have the possibility to get to know who they are and what their innovation is about.

TabriX
Presented by: Dr Marc Creus
Website: https://tabrix.co.uk/
The innovation in one sentence: Microbiome-sparing, non-traditional antimicrobials with efficacy in cellulo and in vivo.

BrIgID Biologics
Presented by: Dr Soumya Palliyil
Website: www.brigidbio.com
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: BrIgID Biologics – Developing novel, safe and life-saving anti-fungal therapies tailored for patients with complex co-morbidities.

BamA Inhibitor
Presented by: Till Schäberle
Website: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb09/institute/iib/nsf/forschung/bama
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: We will develop the first in class BamA inhibitor against MDR Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens.

Microplate Dx
Presented by: Dr Stuart Hannah
Website: https://microplatedx.com/home
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: The Microplate Dx rapid AST technology enables clinicians to choose the right antibiotic for patients in minutes at the point of care, much quicker than gold-standard lab based techniques.

Omnicin Therapeutics
Presented by: Auke van Heel
Website: www.omnicin.com
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: Bismuth inhalation to boost antibiotic efficacy in pseudomonal lung infections.

Obulytix
Presented by: Yves Briers, CEO
Website: https://www.obulytix.com
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: Obulytix revolutionizes the fight against antimicrobial resistance with its proprietary platform for phage lysin-based antibiotics.

Tolka AI Therapeutics
Presented by: Johan Wikstrom
Website: http://tolka.ai
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: Phage-therapy-as-a-service platform against nontuberculous mycobacteria.

Generare
Presented by: Guillaume Vandenesch
Website: https://generare.bio
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: Generare is a tech bio platform discovering novel natural products at scale to fight AMR.

Theralia AB
Presented by: Baris Ata Borsa
Website: https://www.theralia.com/
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: TOUCAN Technology, as a unique oligonucleotide-based drug development platform, enables of using many potent but also toxic antimicrobial molecules, such as nucleoside analogues, safely in the treatment of infectious diseases by limiting their systemic side effects via precise delivery to the area of infection.

Puray
Presented by: Martin Duffner
Website: www.puray.de
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: Utilizing UV light, Puray provides the world’s first permanent sterile medical tubing, offering superior infection prevention for patients.

smartbax
Presented by: Robert Macsics
Website: www.smartbax.de
Video available here
The innovation in one sentence: smartbax is developing small-molecule antibiotics with novel modes of action and a particular focus on enzyme activation instead of inhibition.