'Attack JAK': Ajax secures $95M to test new JAK2 inhibitorJAK2 inhibitor after industry's string of myelofibrosis deals

13 May 2024
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A large pharma company wanted to buy Ajax Therapeutics when it was raising a $40 million Series B in 2021. But the startup thought it could do better on its own.
“We thought that the compound at the time, which was part of the abstract in our 2022 ASH presentation, was a progenitor of what we’ve developed today. So we’ve actually made it better,” CEO Martin Vogelbaum told Endpoints News. “And we felt we were the team that could make it better and get to the best compound that we could take into the clinic.”
'Attack JAK': Ajax secures $95M to test new JAK2 inhibitor after industry's string of myelofibrosis deals
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Source: EndPoints
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