University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Bellur S. Prabhakar’s laboratory is the first project accepted by West Loop Innovations, the collaboration between Deerfield Management and UIC. West Loop Innovations aims to help facilitate the laboratory of Dr. Bellur S. Prabhakar to discover a safe and effective antibody treatment for autoimmune diseases through an exploratory biologics initiative targeting regulatory Tcells (Tregs).

The University of Illinois at Chicago and Deerfield Management announced today the establishment of West Loop Innovations, LLC. The company will help accelerate the commercialization of therapeutics developed at UIC. Deerfield will provide up to $65 million in translational research funding and commercialization expertise to advance promising UIC discoveries.