For the next three years, the government of Shanghai will hand out R&D subsidies up to ¥100 million ($15.6 million) per year to each biopharma company in the municipality to support innovative medicines. Med-tech players can also each receive up to ¥15 million a year for developing innovative devices.
The brakes have now been pumped twice at Larimar Therapeutics Inc. as the FDA placed a clinical hold on its CTI-1601 Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) clinical program, and the company won’t close on a planned $95 million private placement financing. Larimar’s stock (NASDAQ:LRMR) took a battering May 26 as shares slumped 33.46% to close at $8.99.
San Diego-based Biotheryx Inc. has raised $92 million in series E financing led by Farallon Capital Management to advance multiple molecular glues, proteolysis-targeting chimeras and monovalent degraders toward the clinic. Its first molecular glue program, BTX-1188, is expected to enter the clinic by the end of this year.
DUBLIN – Numab Therapeutics AG has moved closer to the front rank of European antibody developers by raising CHF100 million (US$111 million) in a series C financing round to accelerate the development of NM21-1480, a trispecific antibody that acts both as a PD-L1 inhibitor and 4-1BB (CD137) agonist. It also contains a human serum albumin recognition group, to extend its circulatory half-life.