The fight against drug-re­sis­tant bac­te­ria march­es for­ward as Adap­tive Phage earns $40M+ Se­ries B

A com­pa­ny work­ing to­ward the field of bac­te­rio­phages, de­vel­op­ing ther­a­pies that use bac­te­ria-killing virus­es, just pulled in a sig­nif­i­cant amount of new cap­i­tal.

Adap­tive Phage Ther­a­peu­tics closed a $40.75 mil­lion Se­ries B, the Gaithers­burg, MD-based biotech an­nounced Tues­day morn­ing. The fi­nanc­ing was led by Deer­field Man­age­ment with par­tic­i­pa­tion from the Mayo Clin­ic, which had been a pre­vi­ous in­vestor.

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