Arrakis Pivots From Platform To Pipeline With $75m For RNA-Targeting Small Molecules
Executive Summary
CEO Michael Gilman, who now helms the company full time, said Arrakis will use its Series B venture capital funding to build a pipeline of drug candidates, primarily in cancer, with the goal of taking its first medicines into the clinic in the next two to three years.
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