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Welsh biotech Draig Therapeutics has raised an oversubscribed $65 million Series B to accelerate its neuropsychiatry pipeline, taking its total funding to $205 million little more than a year after emerging from stealth.

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Swedish biotech PharmNovo has raised about SEK39m (€3.5m) to help finance a phase 2 study of PN6047, its experimental treatment for neuropathic pain.

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Cambridge-based Alchemab Therapeutics has added £25m (€29m) to its Series A financing, taking the round to £109m (€128m) and giving the UK biotech fresh capital to advance its AI-enabled antibody pipeline.

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French gene therapy biotech EG 427 has rebranded as Cyllene Therapeutics and raised €33m in a Series C round to push its lead neuro-urology candidate EG110A toward late-stage clinical testing.

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Spanish epigenetics biotech Oryzon Genomics has raised €12m in a capital increase and signed a financing agreement with COFIDES that could add another €25m in future share subscriptions.

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Dutch biotech Leyden Labs has raised €40m from a group of investors to advance its nasal spray approach for protection against influenza and other respiratory viruses.

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London’s RQ Bio, a private biotech developing long-acting antibody therapeutics to prevent flu, has raised $115 million (£85.5 million/€101 million) in its Series A financing.

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Finnish biotech Aplagon has raised €4.8m to broaden Phase II development of its lead candidate APAC, a first-in-class antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy for thrombo-inflammatory diseases. The financing will support a new Phase II clinical programme in arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation failure in patients with end-stage kidney disease.

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Oslo-based Circio has completed a NOK300m (€27m) financing round, extending its runway to the end of 2030 and giving the company funds to advance its circVec circular RNA expression platform toward IND-enabling development and clinical proof-of-concept.

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Barcelona-based Ona Therapeutics has raised US$86.6m in a Series B financing to advance a new generation of antibody-drug conjugates into clinical development.