baseclick GmbH is a biotechnological company and experts in nucleic acid modification. In spring 2020 the company was starting to develop an mRNA-based vaccine to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last years, the team of Dr. Thomas Frischmuth at baseclick GmbH advanced the click chemistry for the modification of messenger RNA (mRNA) for the application of individualized cancer therapy as well as the treatment of rare diseases. This promising worldwide patented click technology is now to be incorporated into the development of a corona vaccine.
The company was founded in 2008 as a spin out of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich by Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell. With the so-called “click chemistry”, discovered by the Nobel laureate in chemistry Prof. Dr. Barry Sharpless, baseclick GmbH has developed a wide variety of nucleic acid modifications. baseclick GmbH, based in Neuried, has out-licensed this technology to numerous leading companies worldwide.
Initial investment:
2020
B2G Partner:
Thomas Villinger
Milestones
Milestones
Life Technologies was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in January, 2014

“I am very grateful that BORN2GROW has expressed its trust in the baseclick team and made the start of the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 possible at baseclick.”
Dr. Thomas Frischmuth
CEO