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By Paul Bonanos, Director of Biopharma Intelligence
January 26, 2024 12:08 AM UTC
Launched this week with $102 million from a syndicate led by Third Rock Ventures, Synnovation Therapeutics Inc. believes its well-heeled medicinal chemistry team can create small molecules with best-in-class pharmacology against well-studied targets, with the potential to improve on existing standards of care. The start-up is beginning with selective, CNS-penetrant PARP1 inhibitor SNV1521, which is entering its first clinical study; behind it is mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor SNV4818.
Synnovation is reuniting at least four team members from Incyte Corp. (NASDAQ:INCY). Co-founding CEO Wenqing Yao was Incyte’s EVP and head of discovery chemistry; the group also includes Synnovation co-founding SVP of Drug Discovery Liangxing Wu, SVP and Head of Biology Phillip Liu and SVP and Head of Clinical Development Kevin O’Hayer…
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- Source: https://www.biocentury.com/article/651270/vc-roundup-synnovation-chases-familiar-targets-mirae-s-new-u-s-firm-backs-accent