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Start-ups

Kronos Bio launches with $18 million

by Ryan Cross
May 27, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 22

 

Hardly a month after retiring as chief scientific officer of Gilead Sciences, Norbert Bischofberger is leading a new company called Kronos Bio, which has announced raising $18 million in seed financing. The Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up will use small-molecule microarrays refined by Kronos’s scientific founder and MIT chemist Angela Koehler to discover compounds that modulate or degrade traditionally tough-to-target proteins implicated in cancer.

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