Candid Therapeutics的动态

Shortly after leading radiopharma startup RayzeBio to a $4B+ exit to Bristol Myers Squibb earlier this year, Ken Song hit the ground running for his next bet. He set up a shell company in the spring and went on a hunt for clinical-stage drugs. He looked at nearly 50 opportunities across pain, oncology and other disease areas before quickly settling on the potential of T cell engagers for autoimmune diseases. He assembled more than $370 million in funds for his new company, Candid Therapeutics, and acquired two biotech startups: Vignette Bio and TRC 2004. Both had inked licensing deals in recent months for clinical-stage medicines out of China-based drug developers. I spoke with Song about Candid, raising one of the year's largest private biotech financing rounds, the potential of T cell engagers in autoimmune and more for Endpoints News: #autoimmunediseases #autoimmunedrugs #tcellengagers #celltherapy #biotech #candidtherapeutics #venturecapital