Art Pappas will be participating on a panel at BioFuture New York
Art Pappas will be participating on a panel titled "Alternative Financing: Options for Life Science Companies During a Market Downturn" at BioFuture in New York on October 5th.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 19, 2023 -- Pappas Capital, a leading investor in next-generation life science and technology companies, announced today that Nick Pappas (no relation) has joined the firm as a Managing Partner of Pappas Ventures, the firm's life science venture business. In his role, Nick will oversee Pappas Ventures and lead fundraising and investment efforts for its current and future venture funds. Previously, Nick served as a Managing Partner and Head of Investments at Philips Ventures, where he led a global investment program that was recognized as a leader in corporate venture capital.
SINGAPORE--September 13, 2023--Us2.ai, a Singapore-based MedTech firm, has partnered with Duke University to co-develop and commercialize AI tools for echocardiography, to enable earlier detection, improved diagnosis and more efficient management of heart disease.
FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SAN DIEGO--July 18, 2023--Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIRM) and Travere Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TVTX) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Travere’s bile acid product portfolio that includes Cholbam® (cholic acid) and Chenodal® (chenodiol), two medications addressing rare diseases in high-need settings.
FREDERICK, MD., June 20, 2023 -- Veralox Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies targeting the 12-lipoxygenase (12-LOX) pathway to address some of medicine’s most persistent and serious immune-mediated diseases, today announced the appointment of Jonathan Mow as the company’s new chief executive officer.
Mr. Mow’s appointment comes as Veralox secured $24 million in funding to advance VLX-1005 through a Phase 2a proof-of-concept study evaluating its impact on heparin-induced thromobcytopenia (HIT), a life-threatening rare disease caused by an aberrant immune response to heparin exposure. The investment round included new investors Pappas Capital and NYBC Ventures and existing investors Hatteras Venture Partners, Sanofi Ventures, JDRF T1D Fund and Genesys Capital, amongst others. In conjunction with the financing, the company welcomes Peter Young of Pappas Capital as a director and Meg Wood of NYBC Ventures as an observer.
DURHAM, N.C. & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2023--Last week, at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT), leading epigenetic editing company Tune Therapeutics showcased the power and potential of its TEMPO TM genetic tuning platform, by presenting data showing the stable repression of the PCSK9 gene and the effective reduction of LDL-cholesterol levels in non-human primates (NHPs). This data marks a significant waypoint on the path to epigenetic medicine, in that it represents the first demonstration of durable epigenetic gene regulation, in a large animal model, following transient delivery of an epi-editor.
A common therapeutic target for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, it is well established that repressing the PCSK9 gene reduces elevated LDL-cholesterol levels, in turn associated with the formation of artery-clogging plaques. The non-human primate data presented at the ASGCT conference showed that epigenome editing (or genetic tuning) can drive the stable repression of PCSK9 (ongoing past four months) following a single treatment, and without cutting or nicking the DNA, or altering its coding sequence in any way.
Karen LeVert will be providing an overview of Ag Tech Opportunities in North Carolina at the Research Triangle Partnership's 2023 State of the Region Event on Thursday, May 11th in Raleigh, NC.
SINGAPORE--March 31, 2023--Horizon Quantum Computing, a Singapore-based company building software development tools to unlock the potential of quantum computing hardware, announced today that it has raised USD 18.1 million Series A investment from Sequoia Capital India, Tencent, SGInnovate, Pappas Capital and Expeditions Fund.
The investment round will boost the growth of the company, allowing it to strengthen its science and engineering teams to accelerate product development, establish its new engineering centre in Europe and bring Horizon’s unique technology to the market. Horizon Quantum Computing’s total funding now stands at approximately USD 21.3 million.
FOSTER CITY, Calif.-- March 14, 2023 -- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIRM) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a reduction in age from one year to three months for LIVMARLI® (maralixibat) oral solution for the treatment of cholestatic pruritus in patients with Alagille syndrome (ALGS). The label expansion was based on data from the RISE study which characterized the safety and tolerability of LIVMARLI in infants under one year of age with ALGS.
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm backed by IHH Healthcare, Heal Partners and Sequoia India will provide AI software that assists in analyzing research echocardiograms or heart ultrasounds to Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Cardiac Imaging Core Laboratory. Us2.ai’s software platform aims to improve the speed and scalability of the Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratory (CICL), part of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.
