Fresh Funding Pushes Inflazome Into Clinic With Inflammation Inhibitors

With $46m funding fresh in its pocket, Dublin biotech Inflazome tells Scrip how it will advance its clinical candidates in multiple indications.

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“This could be a new paradigm for treating multiple inflammatory diseases," Matt Cooper, CEO of Inflazome Ltd. told Scrip, when discussing the potential for the company's assets, which are about to enter the clinic in 2019. "And what's exciting is that if it works in several diseases, it may work in several more."

Inflazome is developing in-house small-molecule inhibitors of the NLRP3 inflammasome to stop the cycle of chronic inflammation that drives diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease,

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