Deliver
“medicines that matter”
for patients

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Mission

Deliver “medicines that matter” to improve patient health and contribute to enhanced quality of life. At ARTham Therapeutics, we will create value by developing innovative medicines that are disease modifying and improve patient health.

Value

ARTham Therapeutics Inc., is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that will deliver ‘medicines that matter’ for patients. Our goal is to create innovative medicines that are disease modifying and satisfy significant unmet medical need. To deliver on cost and time efficiency, ARTham will run a virtual R&D operating model that seeks innovation through the best academic and business partners.

Team

  • Team
  • Board of Directors
  • Advisors

Team

Hiroshi Nagabukuro
PhD

Co-founder, President & CEO

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Hiroshi Nagabukuro PhD

Co-founder, President & CEO
Adjunct Professor, Oita University
Visiting fellow, Yokohama City University
Former Sr Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Extra Value Generation Drug Discovery Unit,
Takeda Pharmaceuticals.; Research Fellow, Merck Research Labs, USA; Visiting Fellow, Florida State University
Expert in pharmacology, translational medicine, drug repositioning

Akira Tanaka
PhD

Vice President
Clinical Science

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Akira Tanaka PhD

Vice President
Clinical Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Oita University
Former Clinical Scientist, Takeda Gastrointestinal Therapeutic Area Unit, Boston, USA; Principal Scientist, Extra Value Generation Drug Discovery Unit, Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Expert in clinical science, pharmacology, endocrinology, oncology, drug repositioning

Kanako Kuniyeda
PhD

Director
Discovery Science

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Kanako Kuniyeda PhD

Director
Discovery Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Oita University
Former Principal Scientist, Innovative Biology Labs, Extra Value Generation Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Expert in biochemistry, molecular biology, drug repositioning

Toshinori Higashi
PhD

Vice President
Regulatory Science

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Toshinori Higashi PhD

Vice President
Regulatory Science
Former Reviewer, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA); Project manager, CTD inc.; Regulatory affairs specialist, Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K.
Expert in regulatory science, organic chemistry, drug repositioning

Board of Directors

Hiroshi Nagabukuro
PhD

Co-founder, President & CEO

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Yasutomi Kato
PhD

KAKEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
General Manager,
R&D Planning &
Project Management Department

Motonori Miyakawa
PhD

KAKEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
General Manager,
Business Development Department

Tomohiro Takaya
PhD

Audit and Supervisory Board Member
KAKEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
General Manager,
Legal Affairs &
Intellectual Property Department

Advisors

Naoto Uemura
MD,PhD

Chief Medical Advisor
Co-founder
Professor, Oita University

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Naoto Uemura MD,PhD

Chief Medical Advisor
Co-founder
Professor, Oita University
Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, Oita University;
Adjunct Professor, Osaka University
Former Director and International Fellow, Clinical Research, Merck Research Labs, USA;
Visiting Research Scholar University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
Expert in clinical pharmacology, translational medicine,
early clinical development

Matt Devalaraja
PhD

Senior Corporate Development Advisor
CEO, Nipuna Therapeutics

Yoichi Miyamae
DVM,PhD

Safety/toxicology
Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.
Director, Scientific Affairs Division

Xian Jing Yao
MD,PhD

Regulatory
Adjunct Professor, Oita University

Daniel Weiss
MD,CPI

Clinical Pharmacology

Unravel hidden value
and deliver drugs that
ultimately help patients

Science

  • Pipline
  • ART-001
  • ART-648

Pipline

ART-001

New Effective Treatment for Vascular Malformations

ART-001: First in Class PI3K (phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase) inhibitor for
the treatment of vascular malformations and overgrowth syndromes

  • Significant unmet medical need with no current pharmacotherapy
  • Patient with GOF mutation of PI3K-AKT pathway
  • Selective inhibition of angiogenesis
  • This program has received a grant from AMED, Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development.

Vascular malformations are benign (non-cancerous) lesions that are present at birth,
but may become visible for weeks or months after birth. Unlike hemangiomas, vascular malformations
do not have a growth cycle and then regress but instead continue to grow slowly throughout life.
Most vascular malformations are sporadic (occurring by chance),
though some are inherited in a family as an autosomal dominant trait.

ART-648

Orally available phosphodiesterase type 4 (PDE4) inhibitor

  • Broad spectrum anti-inflammatory effects via intracellular cAMP increase
  • Preclinical validation of anti-fibrotic and anti-obesity effects
  • Opportunities to treat dermal (bullous pemphigoid, psoriatic arthritis),
    metabolic (NASH) and respiratory (COPD, IPF) disorders with high unmet medical needs
  • Optimal pharmacokinetic and safety/tolerability profile demonstrated in Phase 1 clinical study in healthy subjects

Indication: Bullous Pemphigoid

  • A rare autoimmune chronic skin disorder resulting in generalized, pruritic, bullous lesions
  • Autoantibodies recognize components of the basement membrane zone called BP180 and BP230
  • Primarily a geriatric dermal disorder that occurs in patients aged >70 years
  • Usually starts with redness and itching of the skin, and within weeks to months, thin-walled, tense blisters appear
    over whole body
  • Mucous membranes may also be involved, but less common
  • Topical and systemic corticosteroids as standard cares for patients with moderate-severe conditions
  • Prevalence in the US: 12 /100,000 adults; 38/100,000 adults aged ≥60 years (Wertenteil et al., 2018)
  • ~7,000 patients in Japan (Japan Intractable Diseases Information Center); ~20,000 patients including patients with mild symptoms
  • R&D grant from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) Program for Orphan Drugs prior
    to Designation awarded since FY2020

Access

From STASION

From Nihon-Odori Station on Minatomirai Line,
6 minute walk from Exit 3.

24-8, Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Kanagawa 231-0023, Japan
Phone :
+81-45-225-8858