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Glycomine Funds Phase IIb Rare Disease Trial With $115m Series C

Drug Developer Focused On Glycosylation Disorders

 
• By Mandy Jackson

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.

Glycomine raises $115m in venture capital funding (Shutterstock)
Key Takeaways
  • Glycomine raised $115m in series C venture capital to run a Phase IIb clinical trial of GLM101 in phosphomannomutase-2 congenital disorder of glycosylation (PMM2-CDG).

Glycomine has spent more than a decade investigating the treatment of glycosylation disorders, starting with phosphomannomutase-2 congenital disorder of glycosylation...

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