Wren Therapeutics, a Cambridge, UK-based biopharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and development for protein misfolding diseases, completed a £18m Series A financing round.
The round was led by The Baupost Group with participation from LifeForce Capital and a number of high net worth individual investors.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate pipeline for protein misfolding diseases.
Formally founded in 2016 and led by by CEO Samuel Cohen, Ph.D., Wren is a spin-off company from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Lund University (Sweden) focused on drug discovery and development for protein misfolding diseases. Wren is advancing a broad pipeline of small molecule and antibody therapeutics, as well as diagnostics, spanning neurology, ophthalmology and metabolic diseases.
The scientific founders include:
– Sir Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge and Master of St John’s College, Cambridge, and will serve as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Wren
– Michele Vendruscolo, Professor of Biophysics at the University of Cambridge, and Chief Scientific Officer of Wren
Tuomas Knowles, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Cambridge
– Sara Linse, Professor of Molecular Protein Science and Physical Chemistry at Lund University and Member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry
The company is based at the University of Cambridge, in the recently opened Chemistry of Health Centre, and plans on opening a satellite office in Boston, Massachusetts in the near term.
FinSMEs
24/01/2019