Fore­site's im­munol­o­gy play gets a $200M megaround for TYK2 pro­gram, re­brand­ing as Alu­mis

A Fore­site-in­cu­bat­ed biotech that de­buted just eight months ago closed a new mega fi­nanc­ing round on Thurs­day, and with it comes a com­pa­ny re­brand­ing.

Es­ker Ther­a­peu­tics will now call it­self Alu­mis fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of a $200 mil­lion Se­ries B, the biotech an­nounced Thurs­day. The funds are ex­pect­ed to go to­ward Alu­mis’ pipeline, in­clud­ing its lead pro­gram ESK-001, a TYK2 in­hibitor tar­get­ing the pan-JAK path­way that the com­pa­ny has tout­ed as po­ten­tial­ly safer than cur­rent JAK in­hibitors.

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