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Curon Biopharmaceutical, founded in June 2018, is a biopharma company with facility in Shanghai focusing on developing next generation anti-cancer therapies. It completed a $150 million USD Series A financing led by 6 Dimensions Capital, Boyu Capital, and Temasek. With its internationally experienced senior executive management team, Curon Biopharma currently holds multiple promising novel cancer immuno-therapeutic agents in its pipeline and is committed to bring next generation cancer immunotherapies to patients. Curon strives to accelerate its pipeline assets clinical development, further expand its portfolio through in-licensing and other forms of collaboration with biotech and pharmaceutical companies around the world to bring more effective treatment options to patients.

Drive Therapeutics is developing a novel, long acting, bispecific nucleic acid therapeutic to block the angiogenesis, inflammation, and fibrosis underlying retinal disease. Drive’s lead program is a bispecific aptamer therapeutic made up of two well validated components: a pan-specific anti-VEGF-A aptamer and an anti-Interleukin-8 (IL8) aptamer. Drive’s lead program will mitigate poor patient response to existing anti-VEGF therapy, improve outcomes and reduce patient burden. By targeting both angiogenesis and a critical immune pathway that drives both inflammation and angiogenesis, Drive’s bispecific inhibitor is the key to overcoming the limitations of VEGF monotherapy. In addition to current candidates, Drive’s aptamer therapeutic discovery platform will allow for streamlined, efficient development of new therapies to pathologically relevant ophthalmologic targets.