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Drug Discovery

Ventus raises $100 million to drug innate immune system

by Ryan Cross
April 9, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 13

 

Ventus Therapeutics, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2020, has raised $100 million in series B financing to develop small molecules that act on tough-to-drug targets in the innate immune system. Ventus says its second-most-advanced program is a molecule that targets NLRP3, an inflammasome protein implicated in a long list of diseases. The start-up has not disclosed its other programs but says it is interested in autoimmune, inflammation, oncology, and neurology indications.

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