Category: Epidarex Portfolio News
London, UK – 21 October 2021 – Leucid Bio (“Leucid” or the “Company”), a biotech company pioneering next-generation cell therapies for hard-to-treat cancers, today announces that it has successfully raised £11.5 million in a Series A financing round. The investment was led by Epidarex and…
September 9, 2021 OAKS met the primary endpoint for both monthly and every-other-month treatment with pegcetacoplan, demonstrating a significant reduction in GA lesion growth of 22% (p=0.0003) and 16% (p=0.0052), respectively, compared to pooled sham at 12 months DERBY did not meet the primary endpoint…
Follow-on investment, led by Epidarex Capital, closes at £4.24m, following initial £3.2m Seed round in 2020; Caribou Property joins as new investor Management appointments expand leadership team: Dr Steve Myatt, ex Azeria Therapeutics, to Chief Executive Officer; Dr Carola Ries, ex Roche, to Chief Scientific…
Funds to be used to obtain clinical proof of concept in two programs and to accelerate innovative pipeline focused on restoring immune tolerance to treat and potentially cure autoimmune diseases Initial clinical data for lead program, TPM203, in pemphigus vulgaris expected this year; second program,…
Collaboration combines Apellis’ expertise in complement, a complex biological system, with Beam’s proprietary base editing platform Companies will collaborate on six research programs directed to tissues modulated by the complement system, including the eye, liver, and brain WALTHAM, Mass. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2021…
NEW EPIDAREX PORTFOLIO COMPANY WILL DEVELOP NOVEL CYCLIC ASPIRATION SYSTEM TO REMOVE BLOOD CLOTS FROM THE BRAIN Bethesda, MD, June 23, 2021 — Epidarex Capital, a leading transatlantic venture capital firm, has announced its first Florida-based investment. Miami’s RapidPulse, Inc., a privately-held medical device company,…
EMPAVELI demonstrated statistical superiority on the co-primary endpoints of hemoglobin stabilization (p<0.0001) and reduction in lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) (p<0.0001) compared to standard of care, which did not include complement inhibitors, at Week 26 Mean hemoglobin levels in the EMPAVELI group increased from 9.4 g/dL to…
WALTHAM, Mass., May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLS), a global biopharmaceutical company and leader in targeted C3 therapies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved EMPAVELI™ (pegcetacoplan), the first and only targeted C3 therapy for treatment of…