How to Make a Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative medicine has long carried the aura of the mythic, from Prometheus’s eternally renewing liver to Wolverine’s capacity for accelerated repair.
15th July 2026What if medicine is asking the wrong question? For decades medicine has organised biology into diseases: thousands of labels, targets and fragmented solutions. But biology has never been organised that way. Health depends on conserved adaptive systems that sense stress, enable repair and restore function. Medicine thinks in diseases… Biology thinks in adaptation.
We believe the next era of medicine will BUILD HEALTH. Instead of asking “How do we manage another disease?” it will ask “How do we restore the biology that enables repair?” Istesso is activating that conserved biology with oral mitochondrial Complex I modulators (MCMs). These systemic medicines restore the capacity of tissues to sense stress, adapt and repair. One biology. Multiple tissues. Our lead programme leramistat is in Phase 2, supported and enabled by our adaptive repair platform.
"The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well."
Regenerative medicine has long carried the aura of the mythic, from Prometheus’s eternally renewing liver to Wolverine’s capacity for accelerated repair.
15th July 2026
Sarcopenia represents one of the largest remaining untapped pharmaceutical markets. Defined by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and physical performance with aging or chronic disease, it affects tens of millions of adults worldwide and drives enormous healthcare costs through falls, frailty, loss of independence, and increased mortality. This document outlines the current market and landscape of Sarcopenia, including the opportunities, challenges and strategic implications.
26th June 2026
London, UK, 16th June 2026. Istesso, the leader in oral...
16th June 2026