Lumen gets $16M for C. diff drug; Flashpoint’s seed round; Amplifier expands Series A

17 Oct 2023
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Plus, Tessellate BIO, led by former Big Pharma execs, comes out of stealth. Lumen Bioscience gets $16M to advance C. diff therapy: The Department of Defense awarded $16.2 million to the Seattle-based company, which is developing an oral drug to treat and prevent infections with C. difficile . It plans to start enrolling 375 patients in a late-stage trial for LMN-201 by the end of the year. Flashpoint’s $10M: Flashpoint Therapeutics on Tuesday announced a $10 million seed round, led by Riyadh-based Beta Lab. The funds are expected to help advance the company’s first cancer therapy and select a second candidate. Flashpoint’s platform is based on work out of Chad Mirkin’s lab at Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology.
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