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Celgene, others back start-up Sapience

by Michael McCoy
July 18, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 29

Sapience Therapeutics has raised $22.5 million in a Series A financing round lead by Eshelman Ventures and including Celgene, TaiAn Technologies, and Healthlink Capital. Sapience is based on ST-36, a peptide-based drug that was licensed from Columbia University. Sapience says ST-36 selectively targets a protein that promotes the growth of many types of tumors. Its initial target is glioblastoma, a brain cancer.

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