Published: Jun 09, 2021 By Mark Terry
Kojin Therapeutics
launched with a $60 million Series A to initially focus on oncology and cell state biology. The round was led by Polaris Partners, Newpath Partners, and Cathay Health, affiliated to Cathay Capital. Participants included Leaps by Bayer, AbbVie, Eventide Asset Management, Alexandria, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Binney Street Capital, and several family offices.
The approach came out of the
laboratoryof Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University professor and co-founder of the Broad Institute. Co-founders of Kojin include Benjamin Cravatt, Stephanie Dougan and Vasanthi Viswanathan. The company’s technology is ferroptosis-based drug discovery, which is to say, iron-dependent cell death. Kojin says that difficult-to-treat diseases, which includes drug-resistant cancers, involve diseased cells that are sensitive to ferroptosis.
This 30-year collaboration is unique in its longevity and open scientific exchange.
Aiming to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into improved cancer therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Novartis have renewed a longstanding research collaboration and – for the first time – are inviting grant applications from a broad range of Boston academic medical institutions. Under this renewal, more than $11 million will be available annually for research funding through the Dana-Farber/Novartis Drug Discovery and Translational Research Program (DDTRP).
The collaboration, which began in 1992, brings together scientists from Dana-Farber and Novartis to work on drug discovery and development efforts and has supported more than 700 research projects since inception.
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San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) A commercially available genomic test may help oncologists better determine which patients with recurrent prostate cancer may benefit from hormone therapy, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and 15 other medical centers.
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