It was at the constantly changing intersection of data science that Arsenal Biosciences Inc.'s CEO, Ken Drazan, found himself as he helped bring the company to life and to its $85 million series A fundraising.

DUBLIN – Amarna Therapeutics BV raised €10 million (US$11.1 million) in new financing to move its SV40-based gene therapy platform, SVac, toward the clinic.

Cyteir Therapeutics Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based company exploiting synthetic lethality to fight cancer, is extending its series B financing with $40.2 million to support a recently launched phase I/II study of its lead candidate, CYT-0851, an oral small-molecule inhibitor of the protein RAD51. 

DUBLIN – Abalos Therapeutics GmbH raised €12 million (US$13.2 million) in series A funding to advance a distinctive approach to harnessing viruses for immuno-oncology applications.

Phathom Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Buffalo Grove, Ill., set terms for its proposed IPO, disclosing plans to offer 7.9 million common shares priced in a range of $18 to $20 for a raise of approximately $136.8 million at the midpoint. 

LONDON – Healx Ltd. has raised a $56 million series B after demonstrating its artificial intelligence-driven drug repurposing platform can systematically uncover treatments for rare diseases.

HONG KONG – Kobiolabs Inc., a microbiome-based venture from Seoul, South Korea, has secured a ?26.6 billion (US$22.2 million) investment. Founded in 2014, the venture has achieved ?193 billion of enterprise value.

LONDON – Mogrify Ltd. raised $16 million in the first close of a series A that it expects to at least double before closing the round in the next 12 months.

Aytu BioScience Inc., of Englewood, Colo., said it entered into definitive agreements with institutional investors Altium Capital and Armistice Capital for the purchase and sale in a private placement of $10 million of series F convertible preferred stock and warrants to purchase common stock.

Even priced at a bottom-of-range $20, shares of Vir Biotechnology Inc. (NASDAQ:VIR) fell 30% to $14.02 in the first day of trading after the infectious disease specialist priced a $142.9 million IPO, intended to back its development of medicines targeting hepatitis B virus, influenza A, HIV and tuberculosis. The company, led by former Biogen Inc. CEO George Scangos, is largely owned by Arch Venture Partners and Softbank's Vision Fund.