Lundbeck Leads $50m Fund Raise For CRISPR Microbiome StartUp
Executive Summary
A Danish company with a novel approach to gene editing for antibacterials has raised $50m in a series A round, using the cash injection to advance its ambition to be testing drug candidates in humans by 2021.
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