The Australian government will deliver $50 million to a new biomedical and med-tech incubator (BMTI) program for health discoveries spanning early-stage drug development through to cutting edge medical devices and evidence-based digital health technologies.
Mbiomics GmbH raised €13 million (US$14.2 million) in a first close of a series A round that will enable it to pivot from being a microbiome analytics firm to becoming a therapeutics developer.
Flare Therapeutics Inc. raised $123 million in an oversubscribed series B round to take its lead compound, FX-909, a potentially first-in-class peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma inhibitor, into clinical trials in patients with advanced urothelial cancer and to advance additional pipeline candidates acting on other transcription factor targets with genetically validated links to disease biology.