KaNDy Therapeutics, a Stevenage, England, UK-based clinical-stage Women’s Health company, closed a £25m Series C financing round.
Backers included new US investor Longitude Capital, and life sciences investors Advent Life Sciences, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion Capital Partners and OrbiMed.
The company intends to use the funds to advance its non-hormonal drug candidate, NT-814, for treatment of multiple symptoms of the menopause, through a multi-country Phase 2b dose-ranging study due to start recruiting patients in Q4 2018 with headline results expected in late 2019.
Led by Mary Kerr, CEO, KaNDy Therapeutics is a clinical-stage company focused on optimizing the potential of NT-814 as a non-hormonal treatment for common, chronic debilitating female sex-hormone related conditions.
NT-814 is a once-a-day oral, small molecule dual antagonist of both the neurokinin-1 and 3 receptors under development by KaNDy as a therapy for a range of Women’s Health conditions. It addresses hot flashes by modulating a group of oestrogen sensitive neurones in the hypothalamus in the brain (the KNDy neurones), that in menopausal women due to the absence of oestrogen, become hyperactive and consequently disrupt body heat control mechanisms resulting in the debilitating vasomotor symptoms of HF.
FinSMEs
29/08/2018