Landos Leverages Advanced Computing For Autoimmune Disease Drug Development

Emerging Company Profile: Start-up Landos is raising money through a Series B financing to fund Phase II development of its lead oral, gut-restricted compound and described its plans in a video interview at the Biotech Showcase in San Francisco in January.     

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Resting on a backbone of drug development shaped by advanced computing, start-up Landos Biopharma Inc. is developing first-in-class oral drugs for autoimmune diseases, starting with its lead compound BT-11 for Crohn's disease.

The Blacksburg, Va.-based company was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of Biotherapeutics, which specializes in advanced computational modeling for...

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