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Drugging RNA
How RNA play Arrakis plans to spend its $38M series A round
March 2, 2017 11:29 PM UTC
With a tranched $38 million series A round led by Canaan Partners, Arrakis Therapeutics Inc. is putting an initial set of hits into preclinical development, and building out a platform that will allow it to systematically screen for small molecules that bind RNA targets, a class long considered to be undruggable.
New investors Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ:CELG) and Osage University Partners also joined the round, along with seed investors Advent Life Sciences and Henri Termeer...