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Today's Rundown GV leads $58.5M round for Verve, a startup looking to pit gene editing against heart attacks MedImmune-lite? Immunocore delves into British Big Pharma's R&D talent pool, again Roche, PTC post latest SMA data from their attempt to rival Spinraza, Zolgensma With promising pivotal data, Viela Bio's lead autoimmune drug heads for FDA filing Confo raises €30M A round to target hard-to-drug GPCRs Promethera raises €40M to fund trial of NASH cell therapy U.K. government funds plans for 'pay as you go' drug development AI Featured Story | | | Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Verve Therapeutics is launching with $58.5 million, access to gene-editing tech from the likes of the Broad Institute and Beam Therapeutics, and longtime cardiologist and geneticist Sekar Kathiresan at its helm. |
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