National Resilience, Parker Institute team to incubate cancer startups. Metropolitan AntiViral Drug Accelerator will focus on eight molecular features of SARS-CoV-2 to create novel oral antivirals.

Private Company Edition: Recent VC financings across biopharma sectors include three major mega-rounds as Generate Biomedicines bringing in $370m, followed by $250m for Acelyrin and $125m for Chroma Medicine. Also, Treadwell raised a $91m series B and Ncardia brought in $60m-plus.

Selected by NIH and NSF for the Innovation Zone at BIO 2017, the Houston biotech's synthetic broad-spectrum drug has shown activity in animal models against every pathogen tested. Pulmotect hopes PUL-042 can prevent exacerbations in COPD patients who develop upper respiratory infections.

Pulmotect Inc. is developing a synthetic inhaled drug to prevent pneumonia in cancer patients. Its lead candidate PUL-042 is a broad-spectrum, immune stimulant with a unique formulation that targets the epithelial cells that line the airways.