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This is where we share our own and our portfolio companies’ press releases as well as relevant Sunstone articles, analyses and SoMe posts.

5 latest press releases

Galecto Completes Enrollment in Phase 1b_2a GULLIVER-2 Trial of its Selective, Oral Galectin-3 Inhibitor GB1211 in Liver Cirrhosis

BOSTON, March 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Galecto, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLTO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel treatments for fibrosis and cancer, today announced it has completed enrollment in Parts 2 and 3 of its ongoing 3-part...

NEC OncoImmunity Acquires VAXIMM’s Neoantigen Vaccine Development Assets

NEC OncoImmunity (NOI), a subsidiary of NEC Corporation (NEC), and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing an oral plug and play DNA vaccination technology to stimulate patients’ cytotoxic T-cells targeting a wide range of cancer-related...

TargED Biopharmaceuticals raises EUR 39 Million in Series A financing to bring groundbreaking thrombolytic treatment to patients

TargED Biopharmaceuticals (“TargED”), a private biotechnology company focused on developing improved treatments for thrombotic diseases, today announces it has raised Series A financing of EUR 39 million to accelerate development of its lead compound, Microlyse. The...

MinervaX Provides Clinical Update on its Maternal GBS Vaccine

MinervaX, a privately held Danish biotechnology company developing a novel vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), today announces significant clinical progress on its maternal GBS vaccine. Press inquiries should be adressed to:   

Sunstone Life Science Ventures is looking for a Student Assistant

No longer accepting applications We are looking for a student to join our team for approximately 8 hours a week. As part of the team, you will play a pivotal role in the management of our deal flow, which lies in the order of 400-500 opportunities every year....

Who is in the driver’s seat of our industry?

A recent analysis from Pharma Intelligence | Informa 2021 highlights the current trends of pipeline products (top panel). We have subsequently surveyed Sunstone’s incoming deal flow for the same period and noted the correlation for the top 3 categories with oncology...

US IPO: Value recognition? Not really! Trading liquidity? Yes!

We previously looked at M&A of VC funded private and listed companies in the EU and US (https://bit.ly/3EU4n8H). Listing EU companies in the US is perceived as more attractive or beneficial – but is it reflected in the numbers? Recently, we decided to take a...

Why would you do a US IPO?

We recently compared EUR >50M M&A’s of VC funded EU and US drug developing companies and concluded that a substantial difference exists between the EU and US (https://bit.ly/3uftQmU). Previously we have also looked at EU M&A’s before or after an IPO....

M&A multiples in the US – should you go west?

Sunstone has previously investigated the return multiples of venture capital funded companies HQ’ed in Europe (https://bit.ly/3n0bd3B) and concluded that when the total invested amount exceeds EUR 50M, the return multiple tends to stay below 5 in M&A transactions....

Best country for sourcing new deals?

Do you also in your mind have a priority list of destinations to visit once the world normalises and you can get back on a plane? If so, and if you are a Venture Capitalist, you may also be wondering which countries have been creating most Life Science M&A...

Why are we investing in Drug Development and hesitating with regards to Medical Devices or Diagnostics?

Part of the answer is obviously that our past experiences and successes fall within Drug Development – but also that both MedTech and Diagnostics seem to have a lower likelihood of getting to an exit once you have invested. Defining the field for Medical Devices and...

F2G closes USD 60.8 Million financing to fund late stage development of novel mechanism antifungal agent

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Aug 13, 2020

F2G Ltd, a UK- and Austria-based biotech developing novel therapies for life-threatening systemic fungal infections, announced today that it has secured US $60.8 million in new financing from new and existing investors. The financing round is led by Cowen Healthcare...

Orphazyme completes rolling submission of New Drug Application to U.S. FDA for arimoclomol for Niemann-Pick disease Type C

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Aug 11, 2020

Orphazyme A/S (ORPHA.CO), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the Heat-Shock Protein response in order to develop and commercialize novel therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative orphan diseases, has announced that it has completed the rolling...

Orphazyme to collaborate with The Michael J. Fox Foundation on Parkinson’s disease research

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jul 17, 2020

VAXIMM Appoints Thomas D. Szucs, MD, as Chairman of the Board

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jul 8, 2020

VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced the appointment of Thomas D. Szucs, MD, as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He succeeds Thomas Hecht, MD, whose mandate ended in June 2020. Press...

Ascelia Pharma completes a directed new share issue of 4,697,781 shares, raising approximately SEK 98.7 million

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jul 2, 2020

Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) (ticker: ACE) (“Ascelia Pharma” or the “Company”) has, based on the authorisation granted by the annual general meeting on 6 May 2020, resolved on a directed new share issue to selected Swedish and international institutional investors. In...

Orphazyme announces confidential submission of a draft registration statement for a potential registered public offering in the United States

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jul 2, 2020

Orphazyme A/S (ORPHA.CO) (the “Company”), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company harnessing the amplification of the Heat-Shock Proteins in order to develop and commercialize novel therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative orphan diseases, today announced...

Orphazyme phase 2 study of arimoclomol in Gaucher disease demonstrates marked improvements in key clinical markers

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jun 29, 2020

Orphazyme A/S (ORPHA.CO), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the Heat-Shock Protein response for the treatment of neurodegenerative orphan diseases, today announces topline results from a 6-month phase 2 dose-finding study in Gaucher disease with...

F2G’s olorofim receives both FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) and FDA QIDP designation for multiple fungal infections

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | Jun 10, 2020

F2G Ltd, a UK- and Austria-based biotech developing novel therapies for life-threatening systemic fungal infections, announced today that following the granting of Breakthrough Therapy designation in November (the first antifungal ever to achieve such a designation),...

Orphazyme initiates rolling submission of New Drug Application for arimoclomol with US FDA in Niemann-Pick disease Type C

by Sunstone Life Science Ventures | May 29, 2020

Orphazyme A/S (ORPHA.CO), a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the Heat-Shock Protein response for the treatment of neurodegenerative orphan diseases, today announces it has initiated the submission of its New Drug Application (NDA) for a rolling review by the US...

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