Cerevance Inc. has expanded its series B financing with an additional close of US$51 million, bringing the total series B financing to US$116 million. The proceeds will be used to advance Cerevance's therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) diseases developed using its proprietary Nuclear Enriched Transcript Sort sequencing (Netsseq) platform.
Recurv Pharma Inc. is set to receive investment of up to $24 million from TVM Capital Life Science GmbH to support development up to phase IIa proof of concept of RP-001 to treat solid tumors.
HBM Alpha Therapeutics Inc. has completed seed financing to advance its lead programs, novel antibody therapies to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Bonum Therapeutics Inc., a spinout of Good Therapeutics Inc., which Roche Holding AG acquired in August, has announced a US$93 million series A financing. Bonum is developing new therapies based on the proprietary platform of allosterically regulated, conditionally active therapeutics developed by Good Therapeutics. The core platform makes possible the engineering and development of a wide range of medicines.
Novadip Biosciences SA has raised an additional €40 million in a series B equity round and nondilutive funding to accelerate the clinical development of two of the company's investigational adipose stem cell (ASC)-derived tissue regeneration products.
CV6 Therapeutics (NI) Ltd. has secured US$9.2 million to progress its lead oncology asset CV6-168 into a first-in-human phase Ia trial and perform further scientific development work. CV6-168 is a novel, first-in-class DNA uracilation agent that selectively targets the enzyme dUTPase.
Amplifica Holdings Group Inc. has closed a US$11.8 million series A preferred stock financing, the funds from which will be used to advance the development of its proprietary compounds for the treatment of androgenic alopecia in males and females.
Covira Inc., a spinout from The University of Chicago, has closed its first dilutive funding via an oversubscribed $1.0 million seed round after raising $9.1 million of nondilutive funding.
Cleara Biotech BV has closed a $2.5 million seed financing round, the proceeds of which will be used to progress its compounds toward clinical development and build the company's developmental pipeline.