Enochian Biosciences has a market cap of $238 million, but researchers doubt the company: "There is no scientific documentation to base their claim on"

Enochian Biosciences emerged from the ashes of Dandrit and is currently valued at $238 million because of a preclinical, potential cure for HIV and a researcher that management has frequently named a "genius". But scientists doubt the company.

René Sindlev turned troubled biotech Dandrit into a new company by the name of Enochian Biosiences and acquired the rights to a potential cure for HIV. Scientists now question what the company really has in its pipeline. | Photo: David Leth Williams / STF / Ritzau Scanpix
René Sindlev turned troubled biotech Dandrit into a new company by the name of Enochian Biosiences and acquired the rights to a potential cure for HIV. Scientists now question what the company really has in its pipeline. | Photo: David Leth Williams / STF / Ritzau Scanpix
BY PETER THOMSEN AND KEVIN GRØNNEMANN

In 2017, Pandora billionaire René Sindlev took matters into his own hands. He had been a key shareholder of the cancer biotech Dandrit for years, but apparently he had had enough: He took the reins and put Dandrit to rest. The company had been working on a failed cancer vaccine, MCV, which according to Sindlev "couldn't even be given away".

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