Fore Biotherapeutics Inc. has closed on a $75 million series D financing so that it can continue developing its lead asset, plixorafenib, an oral small molecule that selectively inhibits BRAF alterations.
Rapport Therapeutics Inc. raised $150 million in a series B round, less than six months after unveiling its $100 million series A investment. It’s further evidence that its distinctive precision neuromedicine approach has gained traction with some deep-pocketed investors and adds further momentum both to its clinical development and its discovery research efforts.
Jyong Biotech Ltd. filed for an IPO that could raise as much as $40 million to advance a pipeline that includes several prospects for urinary system disorders, including one that has reached the NDA stage in the U.S. Based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Jyong was founded in 2002. The lead compound is MCS-2 for benign prostatic hyperplasia with lower urinary tract symptoms.
Abcuro Inc. pulled down an oversubscribed $155 million series B financing co-led by Redmile Group and Bain Capital Life Sciences to advance cytotoxic T and natural killer cells therapies. Specifically, proceeds will back the phase II/III registrational trial of ABC-008, a first-in-class anti-killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 (KLRG1) antibody for inclusion body myositis (IBM) as well as fund continued development of other clinical programs.
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