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Freshly Funded Symic Bio Plays In The Matrix

 
• By Eleanor Malone

Emerging Company Profile: Symic Bio recently raised $30m in a Series B financing. CEO Ken Horne talks about the firm's therapeutic focus on the body's extracellular matrix as a therapeutic target, and its two lead programs in peripheral vein graft failure prevention and knee osteoarthritis.

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Emeryville, Calif.-based Symic Bio is fresh from a $30m Series B financing and also recently announced updates on its two lead clinical. CEO Ken Horne, a former venture capitalist, joined the firm in 2014 after a biomaterial company he had founded and led was sold to Allergan PLC. He spoke to Scrip about Symic Bio's technology, its development programs and its plans for the future.

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