Lin­ing up a fil­ing for lead ROS1 in­hibitor, transpa­cif­ic on­col­o­gy biotech An­Heart Ther­a­peu­tics rais­es $61M

In Chi­na, the char­ac­ter 安, pro­nounced An in Eng­lish phon­ics, has a few dif­fer­ent trans­la­tions — yet they all come to the same gen­er­al mean­ing: calm, safe, com­fort­able.

And for pre­ci­sion on­col­o­gy biotech An­Heart Ther­a­peu­tics, that Chi­nese char­ac­ter helps to de­fine the com­pa­ny’s ob­jec­tive.

“In Chi­nese, the pro­nun­ci­a­tion ac­tu­al­ly means some­thing — [it] has spe­cial mean­ing: calm, safe, com­fort­able. So it’s re­al­ly — you have a very calm heart, com­fort­able heart full of pa­tients. So we try to make med­i­cine so the pa­tient can feel com­fort­able, feel safe. Feel calm,” An­Heart CBO and co-founder Li­hua Zheng told End­points News.

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