Chinook Will Soon Have $275m To Advance Kidney Disease Strategy
Company’s Reverse Merger, New Financing Will Fund Four Clinical Trials
Executive Summary
Chinook launched less than two years ago to develop precision medicines for chronic kidney diseases and will have three drugs in the clinic in 2021, including a Phase III candidate for IgA nephropathy.
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