Parabilis raises $305M to advance Helicon peptide cancer drugs against ‘undruggable’ targets

Parabilis Medicines; FogPharma; $305 million; Series F financing; undruggable targets; Helicon peptide platform; zolucatetide; FOG-001; desmoid tumors; prostate cancer; cancer drug development; venture capital; RA Capital; Fidelity; Janus Henderson

Parabilis raises $305M to advance Helicon peptide cancer drugs against ‘undruggable’ targets

Parabilis Medicines; FogPharma; $305 million; Series F financing; undruggable targets; Helicon peptide platform; zolucatetide; FOG-001; desmoid tumors; prostate cancer; cancer drug development; venture capital; RA Capital; Fidelity; Janus Henderson

Relation and Deerfield form NewCos to develop drugs from AI-discovered targets

Relation; Deerfield Management; strategic collaboration; NewCo; AI drug discovery; Lab-in-the-Loop platform; novel therapeutics; immunology; metabolic disease; bone disease; drug targets; royalties

Exclusive: Charles Fuchs departs Roche to become Chief Medical Officer at Tubulis, steering ADC pipeline after $401M Series C

Charles Fuchs; Tubulis; Roche; Genentech; chief medical officer; antibody-drug conjugates; ADC pipeline; TUB-040; TUB-030; Series C financing; oncology; hematology; solid tumors; NaPi2b; 5T4; Cambridge office

Lilly to acquire Ventyx Biosciences for ~$1.2B to add oral NLRP3 and other inflammatory drugs

Eli Lilly; Ventyx Biosciences; $1.2 billion; acquisition; NLRP3 inhibitors; VTX3232; VTX2735; inflammatory diseases; oral therapies; cardiometabolic; neuroinflammation; autoimmune diseases

Oncolytics Biotech Expands GI Tumor Scientific Advisory Board with Eileen O’Reilly, Neil Segal, and Van Morris

Oncolytics Biotech; gastrointestinal tumor; Scientific Advisory Board; Neil Segal; Van Morris; pelareorep; pancreatic cancer; colorectal cancer; anal cancer; GI oncology; platform immunotherapy