Deci­bel Ther­a­peu­tics rais­es $82M as Lau­rence Reid looks to steer gene ther­a­py piv­ot

Lau­rence Reid could have picked a bet­ter time to take his lat­est CEO job.

It was Jan­u­ary 29 when Deci­bel Ther­a­peu­tics an­nounced they were bring­ing in the for­mer Al­ny­lam and Mil­len­ni­um ex­ec, and the coro­n­avirus was still a dis­tant threat, not even yet named. The job would have been tall enough with­out a pan­dem­ic; af­ter five years and $100 mil­lion, Deci­bel was prepar­ing to piv­ot its plat­form in a new di­rec­tion, work­ing to ex­pand on gene ther­a­py and re­gen­er­a­tion. Reid would need to raise the cash to do so.

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