Jørgen Søberg Petersen, Hemab chairman (Novo Holdings)

No­vo Hold­ings in­vests in Hemab, a com­pa­ny go­ing against the he­mo­phil­ia gene ther­a­py grain with a plan for bis­pecifics

No­vo Hold­ings, the hold­ing com­pa­ny com­pris­ing No­vo Nordisk and man­ag­ing the No­vo Nordisk Foun­da­tion’s as­sets, has made a new in­vest­ment through its seed cap­i­tal arm.

The in­cu­ba­tor No­vo Seeds is fund­ing a com­pa­ny called Hemab ApS, which is fo­cused on de­vel­op­ing bis­pe­cif­ic an­ti­bod­ies for rare bleed­ing dis­or­ders. Co-found­ed by two for­mer No­vo Nordisk ex­ecs in their he­mo­phil­ia R&D de­part­ment, Hemab is aim­ing for he­mo­phil­ia to be its first tar­get with re­lat­ed blood dis­eases to fol­low af­ter­ward.

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