Luca Santarelli’s PhIII is good to go, he has a new app to stop Covid-19 from infecting the data and $110M to pave the way
Luca Santarelli barely skipped a beat when he sold Therachon to Pfizer last year in an $810 million deal. The pharma giant wanted the biotech’s drug for dwarfism, and got it.
Santarelli, meanwhile, immediately spun out with a new company called VectivBio, taking their Phase II drug apraglutide for short bowel syndrome.
The Roche vet focused on executing on the Phase II with a $35 million changeup round, and is now pivoting to Phase III with a mega-raise of $110 million. Still on the to-do list are new deals to beef up the very thin 1-drug pipeline with more rare disease drugs. And he’s already starting to lay the foundation for commercialization work, anticipating that he can have registration data in hand in early 2023.
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