Acrivon Therapeutics Inc.’s $130 million financing disclosed April 9 hiked confidence in then-pending data with ACR-368 (prexasertib), the selective small-molecule inhibitor that targets checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) and CHK2. Undergoing tests in a potentially registrational phase II trial across multiple tumor types, ACR-368 also raised the stakes for Boundless Bio Inc., which is developing CHK1 inhibitor BBI-355.
Acrivon Therapeutics Inc.’s $130 million financing disclosed April 9 hiked confidence in then-pending data with ACR-368 (prexasertib), the selective small-molecule inhibitor that targets checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) and CHK2. Undergoing tests in a potentially registrational phase II trial across multiple tumor types, ACR-368 also raised the stakes for Boundless Bio Inc., which is developing CHK1 inhibitor BBI-355.
Boundless Bio Inc. got a lukewarm welcome on Nasdaq after pricing its IPO of 6.25 million shares at the midpoint price of $16 per share, raking in about $100 million in gross proceeds to advance its pipeline of ecDNA-driven drugs targeting oncogene-amplified tumors.
Boundless Bio Inc. raised $100 million in a series C round to continue its highly distinctive approach to cancer therapy, which is based on disrupting the functioning of highly amplified oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA fragments.