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Drug Development

Disc Medicine raises $90 million for blood diseases

by Megha Satyanarayana
September 2, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 32

The structure of bitopertin.

Disc Medicine has raised $90 million in series B funding to continue developing treatments for blood diseases. Its lead candidate, bitopertin, an inhibitor of glycine transporter type 1, is being developed to treat erythropoietic porphyrias, a group of diseases caused by dysregulated synthesis of heme. Glycine is a precursor in heme synthesis.

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