Tag Archive for: Series A

Anti-CD45RC Abs suppresses the acute immune response by causing the death of harmful CD45RC+ T cells driving (severe) disease in patients. © Aborleris Pharma SA (Zoersel, Nantes

Autoimmunity specialist AbolerIS Pharma will use a €27.3m Series A Financing to advance its first-in-class antibody inducing immune tolerance in rheumatoid arthritis into the clinic.

Herpes simplex vector. © EG 427

Paris-based gene therapy vector specialist EG 427 SAS has closed a Series A financing at €18m raising additional €5m in the final closing.

Scanning electron micrograph of F. prausnitzii © MIMA 2 experimental facility, INSERM, T. Meylheuc

Exeliom Biosciences, a French company focused on the microbiome-immunomodulation axis to develop next-generation immunotherapies, has announced the closing of its €24m (US$26m) Series A financing to advance the clinical development of its therapeutic pipeline, including several clinical trials of EXL01, a novel bacterial immunotherapy with applications in cancer and infectious diseases.

Multiple factors determine whether tumor cells will be eliminated by the immune system or will escape detection.© wikimedia.com/By Frontiers in Oncology - http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/51138/fonc-03-00197-HTML/image_m/fonc-03-00197-g001.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33585764

Bergen-based Cytovation ASA has raised US$8m in a Series A extension round to push its cancer compound CyPep-1 into Phase II clinical testing.

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Wouter Verhoeven, CEO of Dualyx. © Dualyx NV

Belgian T reg specialist Dualyx NV had raised €40m to progress its three preclinical Treg candidates for autoimmune diseases into the clinic.

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French pancreatic beta-cell modulator specialist DiogenX SA has raised €27.5m in a Series A financing led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Roche Venture Fund.

C. difficile bacteria. © CDC/Lois S. Wiggs

Munich-based microbiome therapeutics specialist mbiomics GmbH has raised €13m in the first closing of Series A round led by MIG Capital.

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With assets of €12m through a Series A financing, Dutch Vitestro NV aims to bring the world’s first autonomous blood drawing device to the market.

Fibroblasts @Mediar Therapeutics Inc.

Mediar Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA, USA), a company developing a portfolio of first-in-class therapies to treat fibrosis, announces a US$105m financing including a US$85m Series A co-led by Novartis Venture Fund and Sofinnova Partners (France). The round is further joined by Pfizer Ventures, Mission BioCapital, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Ono Venture Investment, Mass General Brigham Ventures but also from more European VCs like by Gimv together with Pureos.

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Paris-based AI-inspired drug discovery specialist Iktos SA has closed a €15.5m financing to expand its  platform and kick-start the new CRO Iktos Robotics.