With his son’s life on the line, Ilan Ganot founded Solid Ventures to identify, acquire and develop therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. From the moment their toddler, Eytani, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2012, Ilan Ganot and his wife, Annie, have lived with a death sentence. Because DMD is rare – affecting about 300,000 people worldwide – potential treatments tend to languish in the lab for lack of funding. Ilan Ganot doesn’t know medicine but he does know finance, so he quit his job at JPMorgan and founded a for-profit company, Solid Ventures, aggressively devoted to identifying,...
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