Less than two years after going public via a reverse merger with troubled cystic fibrosis company Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc., Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc. is winding up its operations by selling off its lead clinical candidate and preclinical neuroscience pipeline to Johnson & Johnson and merging with Kineta, Inc. in a transaction that will confer Yumanity’s NASDAQ listing to the privately held cancer immunotherapy firm.
Yumanity To Reverse Merge With Kineta Two Years After Its Own Public Debut
After its August 2020 reverse merger, neuroscience-focused Yumanity is calling it quits with two transactions: an asset sale to Janssen and a merger with private cancer immunotherapy firm Kineta.
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