Having just completed a private placement of $45m, adding to its healthy cash reserves, Norwegian biotech Nykode Therapeutics AS is carrying on with plans to list stateside while advancing its cervical cancer vaccine towards potentially registrational trials.
Norway’s Nykode Eyes NASDAQ As Pipeline Advances
CEO Michael Engsig tells Scrip that his well-capitalized company has ambitious plans for US expansion and is looking to set up an autoimmune diseases arm to add to its oncology efforts.
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