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Ashkan Golshani: A Step Closer to Developing a Therapeutic Against Platelet-type von Willebrand Disease
Oct 7, 2025, 03:06

Ashkan Golshani: A Step Closer to Developing a Therapeutic Against Platelet-type von Willebrand Disease

Ashkan Golshani, Professor at Carleton University, Co-founder of Designed Biologics, shared on LinkedIn:

”A step closer to developing a therapeutic against Platelet-type von Willebrand Disease (PT-VWD).

I am extremely proud of my team for developing the first-ever drug candidate against PT-VWD, a rare bleeding disorder (published in Blood Advances).

Using our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence-based drug development platform, my lab has developed a peptide that can reverse the phenotype of the mutant protein causing PT-VWD to its wild-type state.

Many thanks to my wonderful collaborators in this project Dr. Maha Othman and Paolo Gresele and all the members of my laboratory, past and present, especially Thomas Kazmirchuk, who spearheaded this project in my lab.

This work provides additional evidence for the applicability of our proprietary AI technology in developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics, moving us closer to replacing traditional monoclonal antibody development with AI-assisted method.”

Read the full article in Blood Advances.

Article: Developing an AI-Generated Peptide Targeting Platelet-type von Willebrand Disease

Authors: Thomas David Daniel Kazmirchuk, Jiashu Wang, Loredana Bury, Emanuela Falcinelli, Calvin Bradbury-Jost, Anastasiia Koziar, Mustafa Al-gafari, Sarah Takallou, William G Willmore, Frank Dehne, Paolo Gresele, Maha Othman, Ashkan Golshani

Ashkan Golshani: A Step Closer to Developing a Therapeutic Against Platelet-type von Willebrand Disease

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