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Exscientia sends for $26m
Celgene and Evotec have put capital into Exscientia as the Dundee-founded automated drug discovery services provider added Roche to its roster of development partners.
Sophia Genetics generates $77m
The genomic testing platform developer has now raised some $140m, eight years after being co-founded in EPFL’s Innovation Park by researchers from EMBL, Stanford and Geneva University.
Atriva finds series A relief
Spun out of Tübingen, Justus Liebig University Gießen and Münster, Atriva Therapeutics has raised an initial $1.4m to progress next-generation antiviral drugs for conditions including influenza.
UChicago chimes with four new spinouts
University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship has formed microbiome-focused Avnovum Therapeutics, BiomeSense, Covira and Oxalo Therapeutics over the past year.
GeoSpock pinpoints $12.8m
Cambridge big data analytics spinout GeoSpock has now raised $24.5m from investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital…
