Tavo Biotherapeutics Inc. has successfully closed a $17 million series A financing, with the proceeds directed to advancing the company’s pipeline of innovative therapies targeting glaucoma and retinal disease.
Montara Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded a research grant of approximately $1 million from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to advance a Brainonly therapy targeting mTOR for Parkinson’s disease.
Chinese biotech Longbio Pharma Co. Ltd. announced its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to raise HK$1.362 billion (US$174 million) to progress its lead candidate, LP-003, a next-generation anti-IgE antibody.
IMU Biosciences Ltd. has closed its series A at £40 million (US$53.9 million), adding £28.5 million to the initial close in January 2024, and bringing the total raised since the company’s formation in 2021 to £45 million. Since that first close, IMU has built what is claimed as the world’s largest high-definition immune system dataset, with almost 25,000 profiles of healthy volunteers and disease-specific patient cohorts.
Lysoway Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded an additional research grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to support development of its TMEM175 agonist program for Parkinson’s disease.
Waypoint Bio has closed a $20 million series A financing round to support its work developing next-generation in vivo CAR T therapeutics for solid tumors using a platform that integrates AI, computer vision and spatial pooled screening.
Laverock Therapeutics Ltd. has been awarded two new grants totaling in excess of £2.2 million (US$3 million) to support the next generation of its gene-control platform development, and expansion into additional nononcology therapeutics areas.
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