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Oxford’s PepGen Launches Into DMD With Next-Gen Oligonucleotide Platform

Aims To Challenge Sarepta

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Arising from an Oxford and Cambridge university collaboration, the spin-out has selected Duchenne muscular dystrophy as the first target for its peptide platform.

Caroline Godfrey
PepGen's chief executive Caroline Godfrey.

New UK biotech company PepGen has raised $45m in Series A funding and has unveiled Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) as the first target for its next-generation oligonucleotide platform.

Spun out two years ago from Oxford University with funding from Oxford Science Innovation (OSI), PepGen’s financing has been led...

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