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Kyle LaHucik

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How bluebird’s buyout offer went from $100M upfront to $29M

Blue­bird bio went from a high-fly­ing $10 bil­lion com­pa­ny in 2018 dur­ing the hey­day of gene ther­a­py to…

En vogue Chinese ADC biotech lets Hong Kong IPO filing lapse

Du­al­i­ty Bi­o­log­ics, an ADC start­up that’s at­tract­ed mul­ti­ple bio­phar­ma part­ner­ships, has let its plans to list on the…

How Keymed steered the China-to-US NewCo model in biotech

Keymed Bio­sciences is a prime ex­am­ple of a young Chi­nese biotech churn­ing out pipeline can­di­dates ripe for out-li­cens­ing…

Newleos, a new biotech with $93.5M, repurposes Roche’s experimental CNS drugs

Newleos Ther­a­peu­tics emerged Thurs­day with $93.5 mil­lion and a bun­dle of oral small mol­e­cules that it li­censed from…

Metsera outlines $250M IPO plans as obesity biotech competition rises

Met­sera, a well-fund­ed biotech try­ing to an­gle to­ward the front of the obe­si­ty med­i­cine pack, has pro­posed a…

Obesity biotech Aardvark files for IPO to advance oral, hunger-suppressing drug

Aard­vark Ther­a­peu­tics filed for an IPO Thurs­day night, mak­ing it the sixth biotech in line this year for…

Aiolos team reunites with $411M for new biotech with obesity drugs from China

Khurem Farooq, Verdiva Bio CEO January 9, 2025 02:00 AM EST FinancingStartupsR&D Aio­los team re­unites with $411M for…

Maze files for first biotech IPO of 2025, following $115M funding boost

Maze Ther­a­peu­tics has sub­mit­ted its pitch for an ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing af­ter dis­clos­ing a $115 mil­lion Se­ries D…

Exclusive: Forbion-backed cardio biotech rebrands to RyCarma with Phase 2 plans

Adam Rosenberg, RyCarma Therapeutics CEO January 7, 2025 05:30 AM EST PeopleStartups Ex­clu­sive: For­bion-backed car­dio biotech re­brands to…

Exclusive: Florida cancer biotech raises $100M Series A

Syn­cro­mune, a biotech start­up work­ing on com­bi­na­tion im­munother­a­pies, has put to­geth­er a $100 mil­lion Se­ries A, the com­pa­ny…

SiteOne Therapeutics, a pain biotech that’s partnered with Vertex, nabs $100M

About eight years af­ter its Se­ries B, a small biotech work­ing on non-opi­oid treat­ments has raised its Se­ries…

Chicago’s biotech scene is growing up. What’s fueling it?

CHICA­GO — Over the years, a hand­ful of cities have tried catch­ing up to the flour­ish­ing biotech hubs…

Exclusive: Cell therapy startup Shinobi adds Borges as science chief, Katz as top medical officer

Shi­no­bi Ther­a­peu­tics, an off-the-shelf cell ther­a­py de­vel­op­er, told End­points News it has hired its first chief sci­en­tif­ic and…

New oncology biotech launches with $52M in its pocket

From left to right Tasca Therapeutics co-founders David Fisher, Milenko Cicmil, Xu Wu (Credit: Rick Bern Photography) December…

Dutch biotech nabs €85M to position inflammatory antibody for a pharma buyer

Cit­ryll, a Dutch biotech that has large­ly flown un­der the radar for most of its near­ly 10-year his­to­ry,…