Ali­gos Ther­a­peu­tics, de­vel­op­ing sev­er­al dif­fer­ent hep B and NASH treat­ments, files for $100M IPO raise

An­oth­er biotech filed to go pub­lic late Fri­day as the 2020 IPO par­ty rages on.

Ali­gos Ther­a­peu­tics, fo­cus­ing on chron­ic he­pati­tis B and NASH, sub­mit­ted its S-1 pa­per­work to the SEC with a goal of rais­ing $100 mil­lion. The com­pa­ny’s lead can­di­date is known as a STOPS mol­e­cule, or an S-anti­gen trans­port-in­hibit­ing oligonu­cleotide poly­mer, and start­ed a Phase I study for CHB in Au­gust.

Through late Au­gust, the in­dus­try as a whole had raised $11 bil­lion-plus across four dozen IPOs, per in­de­pen­dent an­a­lyst Brad Lon­car, sur­pass­ing the amount from all of 2019.

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