Finance Watch: Morphic's 'Smooth' Progress With Oral Integrin Inhibitors Justifies $80m Series B
Executive Summary
Private Company Edition: Morphic raises $80m to take its first two integrin inhibitors into the clinic for fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease. Also, Hillhouse has a new $10.6bn private equity fund for health care and other investments, and Atreca closes a $125m Series C.
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