John Hood bags $90M for his quest to get fe­dra­tinib OK’d by FDA and cat­a­pult in­to the mar­ket

It took 18 months for John Hood to get the late-stage drug fe­dra­tinib back from Sanofi, as­sem­ble a small crew of ex­ecs for his start­up Im­pact Bio­med­i­cines and bring Medicxi in for a $22.5 mil­lion round to get this JAK2 ki­nase in­hibitor back on track. And in the last 14 days, he’s com­plet­ed a deal for up to $90 mil­lion in fi­nanc­ing need­ed to launch the drug — pro­vid­ed the FDA is will­ing.

“It takes a lot of mon­ey to launch a drug,” Hood tells me in an up­date. And now he has it.

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