Gene ther­a­py up­start lands $45M round; Bio­gen picks new com­mu­ni­ca­tions chief

→ A syn­di­cate led by Ar­ix Bio­science backed a big, $45 mil­lion round for Log­icBio, an up­start gene ther­a­py biotech fo­cused on rare pe­di­atric dis­eases. Or­biMed, Ed­mond De Roth­schild In­vest­ment Part­ners, Pon­tif­ax, and SBI, along with pre­vi­ous in­vestor Or­biMed Is­rael Part­ners, took part in the round. The Cam­bridge, MA-based com­pa­ny us­es tech de­vel­oped by Adi Barzel at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty, Leszek Lisows­ki at Chil­dren’s Med­ical Re­search In­sti­tute, Aus­tralia, and Mark Kay at Stan­ford.

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