So­lid­i­fy­ing a new cor­po­rate struc­ture, IFM launch­es sec­ond unit fo­cused on cGAS-STING

For Gary Glick and his crew at IFM, life af­ter spin­ning out their on­col­o­gy as­sets to Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb has in­volved con­stant dis­cus­sions about which tar­gets — out of all the ideas on their draw­ing board — to go af­ter in the adap­tive im­mune sys­tem. Their next big ques­tion? When they should launch a new sub­sidiary to pur­sue the drugs, or how many of these units to form.

Those dis­cus­sions led to IFM Tre, which got start­ed last Ju­ly with $31 mil­lion to tack­le a troi­ka of NL­RP3 tar­gets. With one of those pro­grams on the cusp of en­ter­ing the clin­ic, Glick is now ready an­nounce their next ven­ture: IFM Due (pro­nounced “du-way,” Ital­ian for “two”), com­mit­ted to the cGAS-STING path­way.

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