Har­vard big-shots Kevin Eggan and Clif­ford Woolf launch ALS start­up with ex­clu­sive Q-State tech

A group of well-known Har­vard pro­fes­sors has launched a new ALS spin­out to take on re­search Big Phar­ma wasn’t tack­ling fast enough.

The new com­pa­ny, called QurAlis (pro­nounced “cure-al-is”), was found­ed by a cou­ple of stem cell pi­o­neers at Har­vard: Kevin Eggan (the guy who de­vel­oped the first ALS pa­tient-de­rived stem cell mod­els) and Clif­ford Woolf. The duo teamed up with two oth­er co-founders, in­clud­ing QurAlis’ CEO Kasper Roet and Jonathan Flem­ing, who heads up Eggan’s oth­er start­up Q-State Bio­sciences.

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