Pre­ci­sion in­flam­ma­tion drugs? Yale spin­out Ar­ti­zan clinch­es $11M and Bio­haven deal to sin­gle out bad bac­te­ria

As a Yale spin­out based in New Haven, Ar­ti­zan Bio­sciences was pret­ty fa­mil­iar with Bio­haven — a suc­cess­ful neu­ro-fo­cused drug de­vel­op­er and “shin­ing star,” as Ar­ti­zan CEO James Rosen puts it, in the bur­geon­ing biotech com­mu­ni­ty there.

But when a board di­rec­tor and an in­vestor tried con­nect­ing the two, they were in for a sur­prise.

“Un­be­knownst to Ar­ti­zan, Bio­haven had been do­ing a land­scap­ing ex­er­cise sur­vey­ing mi­cro­bio­me com­pa­nies with whom to part­ner for CNS dis­or­ders,” Rosen told End­points News, “and lo and be­hold, they found Ar­ti­zan right in their back­yard.”

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