LifeMine Gets Funding, Inks Discovery Alliance With GSK

Deal Snapshot: The fungi-derived medicine firm signed a three-candidate discovery and development deal with GlaxoSmithKline, which also contributed to its $175m series C round.

LifeMine fungi derived medicine
LifeMine gets more financing for fungi-derived medicine R&D • Source: Alamy

Who: LifeMine Therapeutics/GlaxoSmithKline

What: GSK gets discovery and development access to LifeMine’s Avatar-Rx genomically enabled discovery technology for up to three human therapeutic...

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