Freshly Funded Symic Bio Plays In The Matrix
Executive Summary
Emerging Company Profile: Symic Bio recently raised $30m in a Series B financing. CEO Ken Horne talks about the firm's therapeutic focus on the body's extracellular matrix as a therapeutic target, and its two lead programs in peripheral vein graft failure prevention and knee osteoarthritis.
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