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We empower you to advance the development of your cell therapies

Cell Therapy companies

We leverage single-cell technologies and our best-in-class AI platform ScaiVision to capture complex or novel cellular states and predict biologically-relevant endpoints. We are using single-cell multiomics data to:

  • Optimize product manufacturing by enabling donor/patient selection
  • Streamline quality assessment through a comprehensive characterization of product quality
  • Inform patient management by predicting efficacy or toxicity of cell therapy products

ScaiVision discovers novel biomarkers predicting CAR T therapy response and toxicity

Deng et al. (2020), Nature Medicine

  • ScaiVision predicts CR with 87.5% accuracy
  • ScaiVision finds specific cells and gene signatures that characterize successful infusion products
  • Identified cell type are consistent with Deng et al.’s findings.
  • ScaiVision predicts ICANS with 100% accuracy
  • ScaiVision detects the rare cell population described as IACs (ICANS-associated cells) by Deng et al.
  • ScaiVision signature cells fully stratify patients
  • ScaiVision: gene signatures associated with high toxicity in both CD4 and CD8 T cells.
Helping you speed up your therapy development and increase your success rate

Dr. Peter Nestorov

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Scailyte. He holds a PhD in genetics from the University of Basel and a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tübingen.

During his PhD work, Dr. Nestorov pioneered the development and application of methods for single-cell analysis, which sparked his passion for this technology. In 2015, Dr. Nestorov joined Witec AG as Sales Specialist for single-cell and genomics technologies and successfully introduced the first commercial devices for single-cell analysis on the Swiss Life Science market. The interaction with biomedical researchers and the technological insight inspired Dr. Nestorov to start Scailyte and unlock the full clinical potential of single-cell data.

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Dr. Sarah Carl

Lead Data Scientist
is managing the Data Science division of Scailyte. She holds a PhD in Genetics and a Master’s degree in Developmental Biology from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Scailyte she was a post-doc and bioinformatician at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel. At Scailyte she is leading the development of new applications and features of the internal data analysis platform, ScaiVision, and the data analysis of the clinical programmes.
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Anna Dimitrova, ACCA

Director Finance & Ops
Is the Director of Finance and Operations at Scailyte. She is an ACCA graduate with a Master’s degree in Finance and Banking from Sofia University. Before joining Scailyte she worked as Senior Audit Assistant at KPMG, Senior Business Consultant at PwC and as Finance Manager in a fast growing company in Bulgaria. At Scailyte she leads the finance, administration and internal operations of the company.

Pascal Winnen

CEO Hemex AG & Scailyte Board of Directors

Pascal is a co-founder and the CEO of HEMEX, a pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device consulting firm with offices in Switzerland, Germany and the USA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Technologies from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a master’s degree in Clinical Research from the Donau University in Krems (Austria). Pascal worked in various positions in the pharmaceutical and medtech industry.

From 2011 to 2015, Pascal worked for Finox Biotech, bringing one of the first biosimilar fertility treatments to the market in the EU and leading to the successful acquisition by Gedeon Richter for CHF 190 million. With his consulting firm HEMEX, Pascal has invested in multiple innovative life science startups, where he also advises on regulatory, clinical and marketing strategies, either as a senior consultant or as a board member.

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Dominique Mégret

Head of Swisscom Ventures & Scailyte Board of Directors
Dominique Mégret is head of Swisscom Ventures, which he started in 2007. He joined Swisscom in 2002 as head of the Group Strategy unit. Previously, Dominique Mégret was an entrepreneur in the United Kingdom, a strategy consultant in the European telecom industry and country manager for an IT company in Germany. He currently serves on the boards of Scailyte AG and Bloom SA. He is also an observer on the boards of Sophia Genetics and AVA Women.
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Prof. Dr. Manfred Claassen

Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor AI & Single-Cell Analysis
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor at Scailyte. He holds degrees in both Biochemistry and Computer Science from the University of Tübingen and a PhD in the design and validation of proteome measurements from the ETH Zurich. He continued his academic path as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab focusing on research in machine learning for high dimensional single-cell biology, he moved back to Switzerland as an Assistant Professor at the ETH. During this time, the idea of establishing a company specialising in digital healthcare was conceived. Dr. Claassen was instrumental in conceptualizing the new company. He is now professor for clinical bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, Germany in parallel with his role as scientific consultant for Scailyte.
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