HONG KONG – Seoul-based Vuno Inc. faces the happy dilemma of being able to choose from multiple partnership offers to add to the string of recent deals inked by the South Korean company. The company’s most recent deal is an agreement with Dong Wha Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. for a ₩3 billion ($2.5 million) investment. For Dong Wha, the deal is a culmination of a three-year effort to diversify its business via active investments in the latest health care trends.

Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Biolase, Check-Cap.

Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: Acelrx, Allovir, Annexon, Arthex, Aurinia, Biontech, Inozyme, Milestone, Nervgen, Nurix, Scopus.

Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Realview Imaging, Renalytix AI, Seer, Tasso.

Chief Business Officer David McNinch told BioWorld that South San Francisco-based Encoded Therapeutics Inc.’s $135 million from an oversubscribed series D financing follows by about a year the hefty series C round that “helped us get the [lead gene therapy] program poised to its current stage, which is IND-enabling studies.” The asset, ETX-101 for SCN1A-positive Dravet syndrome (DS), is expected to enter human trials next year.

Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: 4D, Alx, CASI, Cytokinetics, Eikonoklastes, Genocea, GT Biopharma, Kiniksa, Olema, Resverlogix, Vesigen.

HONG KONG – Chinese eye disease specialist Arctic Vision (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co. Ltd. raised $32 million in a series A financing round to advance its lead program, ARVN-001 (triamcinolone acetonide suprachoroidal injectable suspension).

HONG KONG – China and U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Antengene Corp. has closed a $97 million series C financing round, with proceeds mainly directed toward funding the continuing clinical development of its pipeline of hematology and oncology therapies.

Biopharmas in Asia-Pacific raising money in public or private financings, including: Arctic Vision, Beigene, Eisai, Exalys, Sosei.