2022 Startup Springboard Winner
Merlin Biotech
Profile
MERLIN Biotech is an mRNA platform start-up innovative biotechnology spinout from the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute. It is leveraging proven mRNA technology to develop novel therapeutics and vaccines against targets, which address important unmet medical needs that include chronic hepatitis B, adult and pediatric cancers, and Lyme disease. MERLIN Biotech’s executive management and boards include a former Moderna Senior VP, a Nobel Prize winner and global experts in mRNA development, oncology immune-modulators, chronic hepatitis B, and preventive vaccines for Lyme disease.