Ocular gene therapy specialist Pulsesight Therapeutics SAS has launched with seed funding and is raising a series A to take forward two programs using electroporation to deliver plasmid DNA in the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and geographic atrophy.
San Diego-based Kenai Therapeutics Inc. raised $82 million in a series A round to move its disease-modifying cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease into the clinic. The company, which leverages induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, will advance its next-generation allogeneic neuron replacement cell therapies for neurological diseases, specifically completing a clinical proof-of-concept trial for its lead candidate, RNDP-001.
Mainstay Medical Holdings plc raised $125 million in equity financing which it will use to conduct clinical trials and continue the commercial roll out of its Reactiv8 neurostimulation therapy that treats chronic lower back pain.
Osang Healthcare Co. Ltd. is attempting a second listing on the Kosdaq market with an IPO, planned sometime in March, to fund the company’s growth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $110 million that Medical Microinstruments Inc. (MMI) recently raised in its series C funding round is testament to its unique position in microsurgery, said Olivier Litzka, a board member at MMI and a partner at Andera Partners. “There are not many companies actually working in that space in robotics,” he told BioWorld.
Ocular gene therapy specialist Pulsesight Therapeutics SAS has launched with seed funding and is raising a series A to take forward two programs using electroporation to deliver plasmid DNA in the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and geographic atrophy.
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