Po­laris’ Amir Nashat pulls to­geth­er a $60M launch round to back the birth of a new biotech build­ing a drug de­vel­op­ment plat­form from scratch

Po­laris Part­ners man­ag­ing part­ner Amir Nashat has be­come a stu­dent of the role that bio­mol­e­c­u­lar con­den­sates play in shut­ting down or ac­ti­vat­ing pro­teins. And he’s con­vinced that he’s found a door that opens on a long path­way to a new drug plat­form.

So con­vinced that he’s gath­ered a glob­al syn­di­cate to­geth­er and pack­aged a $60 mil­lion launch round to back the 15 staffers at Dew­point Ther­a­peu­tics who have been as­sem­bled to start craft­ing a pipeline of new drugs from their work.

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