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Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies, Inc. Announces $2.5M Series A Investment by Spectrum Financial
February 11, 2021 GMT
Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies ACT-IOP-003 iontophoresis chemotherapy delivery system (Photo: Business Wire)
RALEIGH, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 10, 2021
Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies, Inc., a clinical-stage drug delivery company, announced today that it has closed a Series A investment of $2.5 million with Spectrum Financial. This investment is in addition to the previously announced Series A investment of $5.5 million lead by Khosla Venture. The capital will be used to fund initial clinical development of the company’s ACT-IOP-003 local chemotherapy system for the treatment of locally advanced non-resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.
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Palo Alto, CA Understanding how plants respond to stressful environmental conditions is crucial to developing effective strategies for protecting important agricultural crops from a changing climate. New research led by Carnegie s Zhiyong Wang, Shouling, Xu, and Yang Bi reveals an important process by which plants switch between amplified and dampened stress responses. Their work is published by
Nature Communications.
To survive in a changing environment, plants must choose between different response strategies, which are based on both external environmental factors and internal nutritional and energy demands. For example, a plant might either delay or accelerate its lifecycle, depending on the availability of the stored sugars that make up its energy supply.
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Publishing date: Feb 10, 2021 • February 10, 2021 • 4 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. PHOTO BY SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press
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