Ed Kaye. Stoke Therapeutics

Pre­clin­i­cal an­ti­sense biotech, led by for­mer Sarep­ta CEO Kaye, vaults on to Nas­daq with up­sized IPO

Less than a year af­ter rais­ing $90 mil­lion in its sec­ond round of fi­nanc­ing, for­mer Sarep­ta chief Ed­ward Kaye is mak­ing the leap to the Nas­daq on Wednes­day with an up­sized of­fer­ing for his pre­clin­i­cal an­ti­sense biotech, Stoke Ther­a­peu­tics.

The com­pa­ny in-li­censed its tech­nol­o­gy: Tar­get­ed Aug­men­ta­tion of Nu­clear Gene Out­put (TAN­GO) from Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­to­ry’s Adri­an Krain­er, who is cred­it­ed as the in­ven­tor of Bio­gen’s $BI­IB spinal mus­cu­lar at­ro­phy drug Spin­raza. Krain­er co-found­ed Stoke and serves on its board.

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