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G1, Revolution lead $116m in new VC funding

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Count G1 Therapeutics and Revolution Medicines among the biotechnology companies benefitting from a 2014 boom in venture capital funding that has spilled over into 2015.

Count G1 Therapeutics and Revolution Medicines among the biotechnology companies benefitting from a 2014 boom in venture capital funding that has spilled over into 2015.

Cancer-focused G1 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina raised a $33m Series B VC funding round to advance its Phase...

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