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Gene Therapy

Tenaya Therapeutics raises $92 million in series B financing

by Ryan Cross
October 3, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 39

 

Tenaya Therapeutics, a start-up with six academic cofounders from the Gladstone Institutes and the University of Texas Southwestern, has raised $92 million in series B financing. Tenaya is developing gene therapies for rare genetic heart conditions, as well as a gene therapy that uses a cocktail of transcription factors to convert fibroblasts into heart muscle cells after a heart attack. It is also using patient-derived cells to screen for small molecules that can treat genetic heart diseases.

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