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Exscientia completes $100 million Series C financing round with BlackRock funds

Proceeds to further accelerate AI drug discovery platform and pipeline Exscientia, a clinical stage pharmatech pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to design new drugs, today announced that funds managed by BlackRock joined the Company’s Series C investment round. Including existing Series C investors, Novo Holdings, Evotec, Bristol Myers Squibb, and GT Healthcare Capital, the round totalled $100 million in funding. This new... Read more

WuXi AppTec Completes Acquisition of OXGENE to Strengthen Cell & Gene Therapy Service Offerings

WuXi AppTec Completes Acquisition of OXGENE to Further Strengthen Cell and Gene Therapy Service Offerings for Global Customers PHILADELPHIA and OXFORD, March 2, 2021 – WuXi AppTec, a leading global provider of R&D- and manufacturing-enabling services in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of OXGENE, a pioneering United Kingdom-based contract... Read more

Oxular raises $37 million – Led by specialist life sciences investor, Forbion

Investment will fund Phase 2 human clinical studies evaluating Oxular’s 12-month treatment for diabetic macular edema, and accelerate development of early-product pipeline OXFORD, UK, 1 March 2021 – Oxular Limited (“Oxular”), a leading retinal therapeutics development company, today announced that it has completed a $37 million (£27 million) financing led by Forbion. Proceeds will fund planned further clinical... Read more

Evox Therapeutics completes £69.2 million Series C financing

18th Feb 2021 Financing round significantly oversubscribed by both new and existing investors Proceeds enable advancement of our exosome therapeutics into the clinic and expansion of our world-leading exosome platform Evox Therapeutics Ltd (‘Evox’ or the ‘Company’), a leading exosome therapeutics company, today announces that it has raised £69.2 million ($95.4 million) in a Series C financing round. The financing was significantly... Read more

Exscientia & University of Oxford announce partnership to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

Neuroinflammation collaboration targeting inflammasome steps-up-the-pace in race for Alzheimer’s disease medicines that alleviate the burden of devastating disease  Oxford: Exscientia, a leading AI Drug Discovery company, has today announced its collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Research UK University of Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ARUK-ODDI) to develop medicines targeting neuroinflammation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease... Read more