Atlas-Backed Firm Will Seek Pan-Ataxia Therapy With Biogen’s Assistance

Biogen participates with Atlas Venture in a $17 million Series A financing for Ataxion, which will seek to advance preclinical ion channel modulators for hereditary ataxias.

Atlas Venture and Biogen Inc. are teaming up to finance a single-program start-up that will seek to address the unmet medical need of hereditary ataxias, a group of orphan genetic disorders that can diminish a patient’s basic motor skills, such as speech and walking.

The two joined forces to fund a $17 million Series A for Ataxion Inc

More from United States

More from North America