Plus deals involving AbbVie/Mitokinin, Roivant/Silicon Therapeutics, CASI/Cleave Therapeutics, Tallac/ALX Oncology, AgeX/LyGenesis, Chinook/Evotec and more.

Founded in close affiliation with Denver's AMC Cancer Research Center, Oncology Sciences Corp. is taking a natural approach to fighting prostate cancer. It is focusing on preclinical development of an endogenous angiogenesis inhibitor as well as other natural substances that work through anti-angiogenic and additional mechanisms.

Anti-angiogenesis as a treatment for cancer was hardly a new concept, even in 1998 when a New York Times article first put Judah Folkman's work on the public map. Although the hype has died away, the industrial machine of anti-angiogenesis has continued to roll on--as indicated by the start-up activity we describe in the following profiles.