Veteran amyloid champion helps Alzheimer's startup grab $160M in IPO as investors charge back in to a once faded field
The amyloid beta theory in Alzheimer’s research has staged a comeback with investors as well as the FDA.
Thursday morning Acumen Pharmaceuticals priced its upsized IPO at $16, hitting the high end of the range and scoring $160 million for the biotech.
Acumen pitched investors on the idea that the biotech offers a differentiated approach to amyloid, targeting soluble amyloid-beta oligomers, or AbOs, with its lead candidate ACU193.
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