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Drug Discovery

Inipharm raises funds to advance liver drug

by Michael McCoy
November 14, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 44

 

Inipharm has raised $35 million in series A financing from 5AM Ventures, Wu Capital, and existing investors. Founded in 2018, Inipharm is developing small-molecule drugs that modulate HSD17B13, a gene associated with liver diseases including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is the target of numerous drug development efforts. Regeneron and Alnylam, for example, are testing RNA interference to combat NASH.

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