Laser-ac­ti­vat­ed eye can­cer drug de­vel­op­er Au­ra Bio­sciences scores $40M in Medicxi-led round

Build­ing on the work of NCI sci­en­tist John Schiller — who il­lus­trat­ed virus-like par­ti­cles mod­eled on the hu­man pa­pil­lo­mavirus (HPV) tend to ig­nore nor­mal ep­ithe­li­um and make a bee­line for sol­id tu­mors and metas­tases — Au­ra Bio­sciences is work­ing on a treat­ment for a rare and ag­gres­sive type of eye can­cer. On Tues­day, the Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts-based firm com­plet­ed a $40 mil­lion Se­ries D round, led by Medicxi.

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