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Start-up Entasis has hefty funding round

by Lisa M. Jarvis
April 11, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 15

The antibiotics start-up Entasis Therapeutics has raised $50 million in its second round of financing. Entasis was spun off from AstraZeneca in early 2015 after the big pharma firm failed to find a buyer for the unit. AstraZeneca initially committed up to $40 million to the new company; this next funding round, from outside firms, will help support Entasis’s most advanced drug candidate, ETX0914, a gyrase inhibitor in Phase II studies to treat gonorrhea.

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