BEIJING – EOC Pharmaceutical Group, of Shanghai, completed a series C financing round, bagging $71 million to advance its lead programs EOC-103 and EOC-315 for breast and gastric cancers. The round was led by Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting Co. Ltd. and its affiliated funds, TF Capital and Yingke PE. Hanne Capital and Everest Venture Capital also participated in the round. In 2017, EOC raised $32 million in a series B round. All funding participants are China-based.
LONDON – Azeria Therapeutics Ltd. has raised £32 million (US$41.3 million) in a series B round to take forward small-molecule inhibitors of FOXA1, a transcription factor that is pivotal to the growth and progression of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer.
PARIS – Six months after floating on the Euronext stock exchange in Paris, Predilife SA from Villejuif, France, is launching the Mammorisk predictive test for breast cancer risk in Europe and the U.S. "Mammorisk is the first multi-criteria test to use data mining, allowing it to combine medical imaging, genetic profile and family history," Pierre Verdet, assistant managing director of Predilife, told BioWorld MedTech.
