Our Story

  • FOUNDING YEAR

    2015

  • TEAM MEMBERS

    70+ As of May

  • FUNDING STAGE

    Series B (2020)

    Series A (2018)

  • THERAPEUTIC AREAS

    Inflammatory diseases

    Oncology

    CNS diseases

LEADERSHIP

Chulhee Choi, MD, PhD
Founder and CEO, Chairman
Taejin Ham, RPh, MBA
President and CEO

Platform Technologies

EXPLOR®
Exosome engineering for protein loading
Exo-Target®
Exosome surface engineering for targeting
Pure-Exo®
Robust and scalable exosome manufacturing

LOCATIONS

  • Headquarter
    40-20 Techno 6-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34014, Republic of Korea
  • Seoul Office
    6F B-dong, 24-2 Samseong-ro 100-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06167, Republic of Korea
  • US Office
    ILIAS Therapeutics, Inc. 7880 Wren Avenue, Suite D138, Gilroy, CA 9520, USA

Our History

2023

  • Aug.
    • Completed dosing of ILB-202 in phase1 clinical trial in Australia
  • Jun.
    • Designation as the Excellent Corporation R&D Center(ECRC) by Ministry of Science and ICT
  • May.
    • Completed the first dosing of ILB-202 in clinical trial in Australia
  • Feb.
    • Granted patent for Exo-Target® in Canada, Japan
    • Published 'ILB-202 efficacy in ALD’ in Pharmaceutics
    • Published ‘ILB-202 efficacy in CPIP’ in Pharmaceutics

2022

  • Oct.
    • Started offering 'EV2aluation service'
  • Jun.
    • Selected as the Winner of the National Research Project issued by Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF)
  • Jun.
    • Research collaboration with JW Pharmaceutical to develop an exosome-based small molecular anti-cancer treatment
  • May.
    • MOU with HK inno.N for joint research to develop new biomedicine candidates
  • Apr.
    • Approved a phase 1 clinical trial of ILB-202 by the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) in Australia

2021

  • Jun.
    • Granted patent for EXPLOR® in China, Japan
  • May.
    • Published ‘ILB-202 preclinical efficacy in IRI-AKI model’ in Kidney International
  • Jan.
    • Published ‘ILB-202 preclinical efficacy in preterm birth model’ in Science Advances

2020

  • Nov.
    • Won the Cytiva Korea CEO Award at the 2020 BioChallenge
  • Sep.
    • Raised $20M in a series B funding
  • Jul.
    • Granted a key exosome enginerring patent EXPLOR® in US
  • Apr.
    • Published the preclinical data of anti-inflamatory protein-loaded exosomes (ILB-202) in Science Advances
  • Apr.
    • Won the Grand prize at the 2020 Korea Industry & Best Enterprise Award

2019

  • Nov.
    • Received the Ministerial Citation by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare
  • Mar.
    • Received NIH R21 grant for exosome-based research
  • Jan.
    • Established ILIAS Therapeutics, Inc. in New York, USA.

2018

  • Jun.
    • Raised over $17M in a series A funding

2017

  • May.
    • Granted a key exosome enginerring patent EXPLOR® in Korea

2016

  • Jul.
    • Published EXPLOR® technology in Nature Communications

2015

  • Nov.
    • Foundation
Republic of Korea
USA
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