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Start-ups

Evotec spin-off Breakpoint launches to develop anticancer drugs

by Ryan Cross
July 12, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 28

 

A Hamburg, Germany–based start-up called Breakpoint Therapeutics has launched with $33.6 million to develop drugs that inhibit DNA-repair mechanisms. Breakpoint is a spin-off from the German contract research firm Evotec, which, along with Medicxi and Taiho Ventures, is funding the company. Breakpoint hopes that its compounds will deal a fatal blow to drug-resistant cancer cells. It wants to have a drug candidate ready for testing in 2022.

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