Private Company Edition: The Paragon Biosciences-founded Emalex previously raised $35m when ecopipam was in Phase II. Also, Catalio Capital launches a “special situations” fund, Zenas raises $118m to develop a pipeline of autoimmune disease treatments and Lusaris emerges with $60m.

MacroGenics believes its next-gen anti-CD123 candidate MGD024 has a potentially favorable toxicity profile, as other bispecifics with the same target have floundered. But it lacks the cash to advance on its own.

Less than two year after going public by a SPAC merger, Gemini will reverse merge with hematology-focused Disc. Bristol Myers Squibb and GentiBio will join forces on Treg development for inflammatory bowel disorders.

If Roche gets the nod from the European Medicines Agency for mosunetuzumab this week, it could become the first company to market a CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody for follicular lymphoma.