Kynexis BV has launched with €57 million in series A financing with the aim of using its experience in psychiatry, neurology, and drug discovery and development to advance therapeutics for brain diseases.

Gate Bioscience Inc., a new(ish) company with a new class of drugs in the works, emerged from stealth mode and disclosed a $60 million series A financing led by Versant Ventures and A16z Bio + Health. Arch Venture Partners and GV took part in the financing as well.

Gate Bioscience Inc., a new(ish) company with a new class of drugs in the works, emerged from stealth mode and disclosed a $60 million series A financing led by Versant Ventures and A16z Bio + Health. Arch Venture Partners and GV took part in the financing as well.

“Aging is not only slow, but it is irreversible, and that is what most people have been suspecting,” Gero Pte Ltd.’s CEO Peter Fedichev recently told BioWorld. “[But] aging is not an inevitable part of human existence.” By setting limits to what science can do – and not do – for aging, the Palo Alto, Calif.- and Singapore-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) biotech Gero is trying to figure out and, at the same time help the industry, “see what is actionable, reversible and what may not be” to help people avoid “hitting their heads against the wall” when tackling aging and aging-related diseases.

Fledgling biotechnology company Automera has launched in Singapore with $16 million in series A funding to develop its autophagy-targeting chimera small molecules (AUTACs) platform technology. Automera co-founder and chief technology officer Loong Wang told BioWorld that he and his business partner, Taiyang Zhang, decided to move into the biotechnology space in 2021.

Fledgling biotechnology company Automera has launched in Singapore with $16 million in series A funding to develop its autophagy-targeting chimera small molecules (AUTACs) platform technology. Automera co-founder and chief technology officer Loong Wang told BioWorld that he and his business partner, Taiyang Zhang, decided to move into the biotechnology space in 2021.

“Aging is not only slow, but it is irreversible, and that is what most people have been suspecting,” Gero Pte Ltd.’s CEO Peter Fedichev recently told BioWorld. “[But] aging is not an inevitable part of human existence.” By setting limits to what science can do – and not do – for aging, the Palo Alto, Calif.- and Singapore-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) biotech Gero is trying to figure out and, at the same time help the industry, “see what is actionable, reversible and what may not be” to help people avoid “hitting their heads against the wall” when tackling aging and aging-related diseases.

The atopic dermatitis space gained another player in Triveni Bio Inc., which pulled down a $92 million series A financing co-led by Atlas Venture and Cormorant Asset Management to pay for a proof-of-concept study with lead program, TRIV-509, and boost the Waltham, Mass.-based firm’s broader pipeline.

Triveni Bio Inc. has announced a $92 million series A financing that will support the advancement of its lead antibody program, TRIV-509, from preclinical development to a phase IIa clinical trial in atopic dermatitis and fuel a pipeline of novel antibodies with two additional development candidate nominations expected in 2024.