Natalie Yivgi-Ohana

Minovia Therapeutics Ltd. is a clinical stage company based in Tirat Carmel, Israel. Minovia Therapeutics is developing a therapeutic platform called mitochondrial augmentation technology (mat) that targets the root cause of diseases generated by mitochondrial dysfunction. The platform enriches patients' hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells with healthy mitochondria isolated from an allogeneic or syngeneic source. The Israeli company's initial clinical focus is on rare mitochondrial diseases for which there are no approved treatments, and the lead product, mnv-201, is composed of autologous hematopoietic stem cells enriched with healthy allogeneic mitochondria. Minovia Therapeutics completed an ind enabled phase i/ii clinical trial in Pearson syndrome, a fatal pediatric disease, and is planning to accelerate the clinical development for Pearson syndrome and expand the pipeline to other hematological/mitochondrial-related diseases. The company was founded in 2012 by Natalie Yivgi-Ohana, Uriel Halavee, Ephraim Aharonson, and Natalie Yivgi-Ohana has been the CEO since 2012.