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OliX | June 20, 2022

OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of RNAi therapeutics, today announced that the Company’s subsidiary mCureX Therapeutics, Inc. has recently signed a contract for joint research with ToolGen, Inc. to advance the development of gene therapy for rare eye diseases, leveraging mCureX’s mRNA technology. mCureX, specializing in mRNA vaccines and therapeutics, and ToolGen, having expertise in therapeutic gene-editing technologies, have been in active discussions...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

Xalud Therapeutics | August 25, 2021

Xalud Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel non-viral gene therapies to treat pathologic inflammation, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series C financing. “We are well positioned to continue advancing XT-150, our lead therapeutic candidate, through clinical development and further expand our platform” XT-150 is a locally injectable plasmid DNA gene therapy expressing IL-10v – a proprietary long-acting, mo...

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

Cyclica Inc. | February 10, 2022

Cyclica Inc. a neo-biotech with the vision to advance the most robust and sustainable drug discovery pipeline, launches Perturba Therapeutics Inc. a spin out from the Stagljar Lab at the University of Toronto, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. Perturba is advancing a rich pipeline of assets from undrugged protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Only a small subset of biologically important drug targets are currently being explored within the pharma industry. Per...

BioSpace | February 20, 2020

Spruce Biosciences, based in San Francisco, closed on a Series B financing round worth $88 million. The round was co-led by Omega Funds and Abingworth and supported by existing investors Novo Holdings and RiverVest Venture Partners. New investors included HealthCap Partners, Rock Springs Capital, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Aisling Capital and Sands Capital. In September 2019, the company announced positive results from a Phase IIa, multicenter, 12-week clinical trial of tildacerfont f...