The UK's Silence Therapeutics is moving its candidate products into early clinical studies in cardiovascular diseases and improving its visibility with a NASDAQ listing.

With recently secured platform technology and various programs now entering clinical trials, South Korean RNAi therapeutics company OliX Pharmaceuticals is hoping to reach multiple licensing deals by next year.

Public Company Edition: After an initial hit to valuations from COVID-19, massive amounts of money have been raised by drug developers, such as argenx with a $862.5m stock sale. However, only two IPOs launched in the US in May, including ADC with a $267m offering.

Deals involving Hoth/Voltron, Vir/Xencor, Akers/Premas, WPD/CNS address coronavirus outbreak. Separately, Roche and Forge hope to develop a novel antibiotic for Gram-negative infections using the LpxC enzyme.