Stu­art Schreiber’s bid to tack­le huge class of cru­cial pro­teins nabs an­oth­er $50M

Four years af­ter launch­ing with pres­ti­gious co-founders and am­bi­tions to go af­ter a fam­i­ly of an­cient and cru­cial pro­teins, it’s still not clear how far Jnana Ther­a­peu­tics has ad­vanced. But it’s pushed far enough that in­vestors are will­ing to in­fuse more cash.

Jnana an­nounced a $50 mil­lion Se­ries B on Wednes­day led by RA Cap­i­tal. Al­though light com­pared to the megarounds that have be­come in­creas­ing­ly rou­tine for biotechs, it con­tains the same melange of A-list in­vestors that backed the com­pa­ny’s sci­en­tists from the be­gin­ning, in­clud­ing Po­laris, Ver­sant, Ab­b­Vie and Pfiz­er.

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