The US FDA heard a lot about the structural, medical and especially financial barriers facing coccidioidomycosis, or Valley fever, drug development soon after the agency refused to qualify the rare fungal infection for priority review voucher incentives.

With 46 initial public offerings in the US by drug developers so far – including recent launches by Kymera, Inhibrx and Harmony – 2020 will easily beat last year’s 50 IPOs. In follow-on offerings and VC deals, newly public Schrodinger raised $346.5m and Tango’s $50m equity financing.

Revolution has just one drug in the clinic, but its focus on KRAS excited IPO investors. Also, Deciphera’s $175m offering leads recent follow-ons and Spruce raises $88m in venture capital.

This week’s announcements include the retirement of GlaxoSmithKline’s CFO, new CEOs at Complexa, Synlogic and Horizon Discovery, and other new hires at TP Therapeutics and Motif Bio, and a new board member at DBV Technologies.