Lil­ly Asian Ven­tures backs Im­pact's PARP re­search again, chip­ping in for $30M Se­ries C led by Decheng Cap­i­tal

A Chi­nese biotech run­ning af­ter the “best-in-class” ti­tle in the PARP in­hibitor field has gath­ered $30 mil­lion to fu­el its still ear­ly-stage R&D work.

Decheng Cap­i­tal led the Se­ries C for Nan­jing-based Im­pact Ther­a­peu­tics, joined by ex­ist­ing in­vestor Lil­ly Asian Ven­tures. LAV first backed Im­pact in 2014 to­geth­er with Cen­o­va and WuXi Ven­tures and lat­er came back for a $10 mil­lion B round.

“Im­pact is an ex­cel­lent Chi­nese com­pa­ny with prod­ucts that can com­pete glob­al­ly,” said Xi­ang­min Cui, founder and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Decheng, in a state­ment.

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