Mequon Firm Seeks to Put the Brakes on Cancer Cells
Posted: July 01, 2010 - 5:00 PM
By Kathleen Gallagher of the Journal Sentinel
James Yarger, who owns a drug development company in Mequon, had an idea brewing in his head for some time.
If cancer cells are regular cells run amok - cells with failed brakes, as it were - there must be a way to fix those brakes.
With help from $12 million of investor funding and a $250,000 loan from the state's Technology Venture Fund, Yarger thinks he has figured it out.
His young company, Endece LLC, is prepared to begin clinical trials next year on a compound he says could potentially turn off any kind of cancer cell.
"We can stop any cancer from replicating. The cell is trying to replicate and essentially tearing itself apart because of the blocks we put in place," said Yarger, 58.
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