Financing Snapshot: The company announced a $100m series B round that it plans to use to develop its regulatory RNA platform technology, with an eye toward entering the clinic in mid-2023.
Who: CAMP4 Therapeutics
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Restructuring Edition: ESSA and Elevation are reviewing strategic alternatives after trial failures, but each has an investor urging them to liquidate. Also, Third Harmonic and Vincerx are winding down, while Keros and Tempest are assessing options, but Opthea and OPM are cutting jobs.
Private Company Edition: After Q1 venture capital investment slumped relative to 2024 totals due to declines in both smaller financings and mega-rounds, Q2 started off with six $100m-plus financings in the first half of April after there were only three in February and six in all off March.
Lead drug GLM101 will move into its first placebo-controlled trial based on positive results in adults and adolescents with PMM2-CDG in an open-label Phase IIa study.
Several biotech execs said they don’t expect much impact from the Trump administration’s threatened tariffs but are reviewing business practices to prepare.
The IL-4/IL-13 inhibitor has been approved in the US as the first targeted therapy in over a decade for chronic itching.
Japanese incubator Ciconia has just started verifying its first drug candidate with a vision of building domestic startups with globally competitive assets.
Deal Snapshot: Sanofi obtained global rights to a pair of bispecific antibody candidates for autoimmune and inflammatory bowel disorders from Helixon-affiliated AI firm Earendil.
