knowledge -WSS

knowledge

author：fashion 2025-09-29 20:51:32 - browse：6258

Christoph Lengauer stands for a portrait. -- biotech coverage from STAT — Christoph Lengauer, co-founder and CSO of Curie.Bio Vanessa Leroy for STAT

Curie.Bio, the new biotech investment firm and incubator launched earlier this year by a group of industry veterans including Alexis Borisy and Zach Weinberg, has graduated its first startup.

The startup, Forward Therapeutics, is coming out of the incubator with three drug candidates for chronic inflammatory disorders. It also just closed its first major financing round: a $50 million Series A round led by BVF Partners, with participation from RA Capital Management and OrbiMed. That money should be enough for Forward to begin clinical trials — a rare feat in the biotech world, where companies often need to raise multiple private financing rounds in order to be ready for human tests.

“Usually, with Series A money, you get a development candidate, and use Series B to take molecules to the clinic,” Forward CEO Toufike Kanouni told STAT. But with the Curie team’s help, and the $8 million in seed financing it provided, Forward was able to move much faster.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： In age of alternative facts, a scholarly course on calling out crap
Next article： Wegovy, Zepbound and weight loss drugs that preserve muscle

WSS

Mayo Clinic partners with supercomputer AI firm Cerebras at JPM

Surge of respiratory disease in China has likely explanation

Boston Scientific acquires urology company Axonics for $3.7 billion

Mayo Clinic partners with supercomputer AI firm Cerebras at JPM

U.K. considers world's first use of meningitis vaccine to address gonorrhea

Morphosys mixed study results for blood cancer drug

focus

knowledge

hotspot

Sports medicine is finally prioritizing gender equality

Nonprofit, backed by Microsoft, to certify AI tools in health care

New air purifier tech could be key to improving indoor air quality

Morphosys mixed study results for blood cancer drug

Continuity nursing helped my family in our darkest PICU moments

Congress must reauthorize a committee to support older Americans

Jerome Adams on the need for new antivirals for Covid

Poor hospice wound care hurts patients and families

Wildfire smoke exposes gaps in outdoor worker protections

Ascension's ugly legal battle over care for poor patients in Texas

hotspot

Does Paxlovid work in people vaccinated against Covid

PBM reforms clear House panel

JPM 2024 Review: Hope for the XBI, deals from J&J, Merck, GSK

Mayo Clinic partners with supercomputer AI firm Cerebras at JPM

In key trial, Verve's treatment lowers cholesterol levels in patients

American taxpayers paid $1.8 trillion in health care costs in 2022

entertainment

knowledge

hotspot

knowledge