Start-up pitch
The start-up pitch session is supported by INCATE. Ten finalists will be selected that have the opportunity to make a 5-minute-pitch of their venture in the start-up pitch session on March 3, 2026. The best pitch will win a 10,000 € prize from award sponsor Vossius, one of the leading IP law firms in Europe.
Proudly presenting the finalists
Triari Pharmaceuticals
Presented by: John A. Zurawski
Website: http://www.triaripharma.co
The innovation in one sentence: Optimized monoclonal antibodies targeting novel epitopes on the surface of P. aeruginosa.
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Luminicell
Presented by: Jax Lee
Website: www.luminicell.com
The innovation in one sentence: A Novel Class of Antimicrobial Drugs for Fungal Infections.
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Resistia
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Hermione Therapeutics
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Arrowsmith
Presented by: Ayaka Washizaki
Website: https://arrowsmith.co.jp/
The innovation in one sentence: Arrowsmith is a Japan-based startup developing engineered phage therapies for AMR, leveraging our synthetic engineering platform with a lead program ARW001 for Pseudomonas aeruginosa targeting IND submission in 2026.
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MetalloBio
Presented by: Michael Murray
Website: https://www.metallobio.com/
The innovation in one sentence: MetalloBio is exploiting its proprietary inorganic chemistry platform to develop totally new classes of broad spectrum antibiotic candidates for drug development to tackle complicated infections and to generate antibacterial coatings for medical devices and civilian uses.
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Baxiva
Presented by: Giorgia Greter
Website: https://www.baxiva.com/
The innovation in one sentence: Next-generation glycoconjugate vaccines to fight E. coli.
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Arvalus
Presented by: Christian Brandstetter
Website: https://arvalus-therapeutics.com/
The innovation in one sentence: Arvalus is pioneering a next-generation live biotherapeutic product (LBP) engineered to precisely target and eradicate multi-drug-resistant and pathogenic bacteria from the gut.
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80SBIO
Presented by: Arka Banerjee
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/80sbio-gmbh/
The innovation in one sentence: QuantR detects AMR rapidly, even before the first cycle of cell division by detecting the replication of RNA that precedes cell division.
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AstralytiX (KU Leuven)
Presented by: Katrien Trappeniers
Website: under construction
The innovation in one sentence: FibriLysins – Breaking barriers, defeating resistance. A novel class of endolysins to cure difficult-to-treat staphylococcal infections.
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