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Trefoil in clover: Series A $28M banked, can FGF-1 cut eye disease mustard?

July 17, 2019
By Randy Osborne
Trefoil Therapeutics Inc.'s $28 million from an oversubscribed series A financing will let the company finish a phase IIa proof-of-concept study as researchers edge toward attacking corneal endothelial dystrophy, including Fuchs dystrophy, a disease that leads to the deterioration of the endothelial layer on the back surface of the cornea.
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