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UCB spinout Syndesi closes $21M series A round for new approach to dementia

Feb. 2, 2018

DUBLIN – Syndesi Therapeutics SA, a newly formed UCB SA spinout, closed €17 million (US$21.2 million) in a series A round to take forward a novel series of synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) modulators for treating dementia.

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