Pierre Saint-Mezard

Vaderis Therapeutics AG is a clinical stage biotech company based in Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss company aims to develop medicinal treatments for rare and orphan diseases associated with vascular malformations. The company focuses on developing a medicine for the treatment of HHT and other diseases associated with vascular malformations. HHT is a rare disease that causes vascular overgrowth due to genetic mutations, and there are no drugs approved anywhere in the world that specifically treat it. The company was founded in 2019 by Nicholas Benedict, Pierre Saint-Mezard, and Damien Picard, and Nicholas Benedict has been the CEO since incorporation. Vaderis raised a series a financing from Medicxi and acquired a portfolio of allosteric Akt inhibitors from Almac Discovery Ltd.