Epigenetics-Focused Biotech Constellation Raises $100M
Constellation制药公司是一家专注于开发针对难治癌症的小分子疗法的公司,已从一群新老投资者手中筹集到1亿美元。
这家总部位于马萨诸塞州剑桥的公司自2008年起就开始应用,但现在其领先的肿瘤候选药物正在获得推动,这些候选药物旨在推翻EZH2表观遗传调节因子,从而可以开启和关闭基因表达。
该公司表示,新基金将主要用于其两位主要候选人。CPI-1205目前正在进行两项试验ProSTAR和ORIOn-E,分别针对其他实体瘤的转移性去势耐药前列腺癌和癌症免疫治疗Yervoy测试其联合雄激素抑制剂药物Zytiga和Xtandi的有效性。
该公司还计划推进临床阶段候选人CPI-0610作为单独疗法或与JAK抑制剂联合治疗骨髓纤维化。
Constellation制药公司还计划将其第二代EZH2项目推进临床,并从其表观遗传学发现平台中找出更多潜在疗法。
新的投资者包括鸬鹚资产管理,迪尔菲尔德管理,富达管理和研究公司,Hillhouse Capital,NS投资,OrbiMed,Sirona Capital和Venrock Healthcare Partners。
这些增加了现有的投资者,包括The Column Group,Third Rock Ventures,Venrock,SROne,加州大学投资办公室,Topspin Partners和Casdin Capital等也参与了筹款活动。
Jigar Raythatha, the company’s president and chief executive thanked the new and existing investors, and said the funding would be instrumental in helping it progress its pipeline.
“This financing gives us additional flexibility and runway to pursue the clinical development of CPI-1205 and CPI-0610, our lead product candidates, as well as advance other novel molecules from our cancer epigenetics platform into development.”
Constellation joins a flurry of biotech companies, mostly US-based, raising in excess of $100 million in one funding round in the first few months of 2018. These include Generation Bio, Rubius and BioMedPartners AG, and a whopping $250 million raised by MedImmune spin-out Viela.
所有这些公司都希望在未来几年内启动IPO。在英国,下一代免疫疗法公司Autolus已经为纳斯达克的发布奠定了基础,但表示尚未有明确的IPO计划。
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