Tentarix Biotherapeutics LP broke cover with $50 million in series A funding to take forward an industrialized flow cytometry platform that enables it to screen rapidly for multifunctional antibody-based drugs.
DUBLIN – Abalos Therapeutics GmbH raised €32.5 million (US$37.6 million) in a series A extension, taking the total raise to €43 million, enough to enable the company to generate clinical proof-of-concept data with its lead viral immunotherapy for cancer.
Jonathan Moore, who was employee No. 36 when he came to Vertex Inc. in 1990 and ended up spending the next 28 years at the company, realized he wasn’t done with his work in ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and has now formed Rectify Pharmaceuticals Inc. The new company just closed on a $100 million series A financing to fund development of a pipeline of therapies to restore ABC transporter function for treating genetic diseases.
Aum Biosciences Pte. Ltd., a company developing targeted cancer therapies, has closed a $27 million series A funding round. The Singapore-based company plans to use the proceeds to advance clinical development of its portfolio with immediate initiation of two phase II programs for MNK and tropomyosin receptor kinase inhibitors.
The biopharma industry is full of amazing ideas, but getting funding for them and turning them into medicines for the real world is a huge challenge. As anyone in the industry knows, getting investors to back your company can be as challenging as getting the science to work and can take a significant amount of the company’s time and effort.
Highlighting 2021's clear trajectory toward record IPO territory, Oct. 8 brought upsized market debuts for both Pyxis Oncology Inc. and Cognition Therapeutics Inc., raising $168 million and $45.2 million, respectively.