Ox­ford spin­out Evox grabs a $45M bankroll to ad­vance to the clin­ic with new ex­o­some tech

A group of sci­en­tists in­tent on hi­jack­ing ex­o­somes for ther­a­peu­tic pur­pos­es has gath­ered to­geth­er a $45.4 mil­lion round — in­clud­ing a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion from Google’s GV — to back their move to­ward the clin­ic with new drugs for rare dis­eases.

The biotech is called Evox Ther­a­peu­tics. Based in Ox­ford, the com­pa­ny has po­si­tioned it­self among the hand­ful of play­ers that are us­ing tiny ex­o­somes — part of the body’s nat­ur­al vesi­cle couri­er sys­tem — to de­liv­er a ther­a­peu­tic pay­load where need­ed, in­clud­ing tar­gets in the brain.

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