Movers and Shakers
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Movers and Shakers
Acadia Pharmaceuticals CEO Steve Davis has stepped down; Catherine Owen Adams succeeds him
Avacta has appointed Michelle Morrow as CSO
Amphista Therapeutics has appointed Antony Mattessich as CEO
Association for Accessible Medicines has appointed John Murphy as CEO
BenevolentAI CEO Joerg Moeller has stepped down; Kenneth Mulvany, previously Deputy Chairman, is appointed Executive Chairman
Century Therapeutics has appointed Century Therapeutics as CFO
CMR Surgical CEO Supratim Bose transitions to Vice-Chairman of the Board; Massimiliano Colella appointed as interim CEO
Essential Pharma appointed Dr Liz Holmes as CMO
Innate Pharma has appointed Jonathan Dickinson as CEO replacing founder Herve Brailly, who was serving on an interim basis
Sage Therapeutics has seen the departure of its CFO, Kimi Iguchi and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Matt Lasmanis as part of a wider restructuring
Francois Vigneault has resigned as CEO of Shape Therapeutics
Qualigen Therapeutics CEO and Chairman Michael Poirier and CFO Christopher Lotz have resigned; Kevin Richardson will serve as interim CEO and CFO
ViaNautis has appointed Adi Hoess as CEO
Fundraising highlights
Highlighted fundraising activity this month
Fundraising highlights
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Company Name |
Amount Raised |
Type of Fundraise |
Country |
Date |
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Private company financings |
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F2G |
$100 million |
Series A |
UK |
12 September |
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Vironexis Biotherapeutics |
$26 million |
Seed |
US |
12 September |
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Nura Bio |
$68 million |
Series A Extension |
US |
17 September |
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Mevo |
$19 million |
Series B |
Brazil |
18 September |
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GC Therapeutics |
$65 million |
Series A |
US |
19 September |
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Cercle |
$6 million |
Seed |
Paris |
19 September |
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Vicebio |
$100 million |
Series B |
UK |
23 September |
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Constructive Bio |
$58 million |
Series A |
UK |
24 September |
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Centivo |
$75 million |
Undisclosed Series |
US |
24 September |
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LIfT Biosciences |
$13.3 million |
Series A |
UK |
24 September |
|
Genespire |
$52 million |
Series B |
Italy |
25 September |
|
Mirai Bio |
$50 million |
Seed |
US |
26 September |
|
Atkis Oncology |
$175 million |
Series B |
US |
30 September |
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Kailera Therapeutics |
$400 million |
Series A |
US |
1 October |
|
LoQus23 Therapeutics |
$43 million |
Series A |
UK |
2 October |
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Triveni Bio |
$100 million |
Series B |
US |
2 October |
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Resolution Therapeutics |
$83 million |
Series B |
UK |
3 October |
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Enara Bio |
$32.5 million |
Series B |
UK |
3 October |
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Judo Bio |
$100 million |
Seed & Series A |
US |
7 October |
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Arda Therapeutics |
$43 million |
Series A |
US |
8 October |
|
Orasis Pharmaceuticals |
$78 million |
Series D |
US |
8 October |
|
City Therapeutics |
$135 million |
Series A |
US |
8 October |
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Purespring Therapeutics |
$105 million |
Series B |
UK |
9 October |
|
Basecamp Research |
$60 million |
Series B |
London |
9 October |
|
Reema Health |
$7.6 million |
Series A |
US |
10 October |
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Nuclera |
$75 million |
Series C |
UK |
15 October |
|
Treeline Biosciences |
$421 million |
Seed |
US |
17 October |
|
Alpha-9 Oncology |
$175 million |
Series C |
US |
23 October |
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March Biosciences |
$28 million |
Series A |
US |
23 October |
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Public company financings |
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Ionis Pharmaceuticals |
$500 million |
CMPO |
US |
9 September |
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Relay Therapeutics |
$200 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
10 September |
|
Terns Pharmaceuticals |
$172 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
10 September |
|
Liquidia Corporation |
$67 million |
PIPE & RD |
US |
11 September |
|
Viridian Therapeutics |
$200 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
11 September |
|
Xencor |
$201 million |
CMPO |
US |
11 September |
|
Centessa Pharmaceuticals |
$225 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
12 September |
|
Summit Therapeutics |
$235 million |
PIPE |
US |
12 September |
|
Oruka Therapeutics |
$144 million |
PIPE |
US |
12 September |
|
Valneva SE |
$68 million |
PIPE |
France |
13 September |
|
Zenas BioPharma |
$258 million |
IPO |
US |
13 September |
|
MBX Bioscience |
$163 million |
IPO |
US |
13 September |
|
Bicara Therapeutics |
$362 million |
IPO |
US |
13 September |
|
Nuvalent |
$500 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
16 September |
|
Ascendis Pharma A/S |
$300 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
Denmark |
19 September |
|
Optima Health |
N/A |
IPO |
UK |
26 September |
|
BioAge Labs |
$227 million |
IPO |
US |
26 September |
|
Biohaven |
$287 million |
CMPO |
US |
1 October |
|
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals |
$500 million |
CMPO |
US |
8 October |
|
Scholar Rock Holding Corporation |
$300 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
US |
8 October |
|
Immatics N.V. |
$150 million |
Follow-on fundraise |
Germany |
10 October |
|
Upstream Bio |
$255 million |
IPO |
US |
11 October |
|
CAMP4 Therapeutics Corporation |
$75 million |
IPO |
US |
11 October |
Analyst directory
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Analyst directory
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Bank |
Analyst(s) |
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ABG Sundal Collier |
Daniel Thorsson, Morten Larsen |
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Banco de Sabadell, S.A. |
Javier Esteban |
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Bankhaus Lampe KG |
Heiko Feber |
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Bank Vontobel AG |
Carla Baenziger |
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Barclays |
Blanka Porkolab, Emily Field, Hassan Al-Wakeel, Krishna Chaitanya Arikatla, Matt Miksic, Peter Lawson |
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Berenberg |
Kerry Holford, Luisa Hector, Odysseas Manesiotis, Sam England, Tom Jones, (David Hogg) |
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Graham Parry (London), John Aldersley, Michael Leonidovich Ryskin |
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Bryan, Garnier & Co |
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BMO Capital Markets |
Evan Seigerman |
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CA Cheuvreux |
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Carnegie |
Kristofer Liljeberg-Svensson, Lars Topholm, Niels Granholm, Richard Koch, Ulrik Trattner |
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Cavendish |
Adam McCarter, Chris Donnellan, Edward Jinks |
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Citi |
David Crawley, Peter Verdult, Veronika Dubajova |
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Cowen International |
Charles Rhyee, David Kirkpatrick, Joshua Jennings, Ken Cacciatore, Marc Frahm, Ritu Baral, Yaron Werber (US) |
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Credit Suisse |
Dominic Lunn, (Phil Gestrin), Liav Abraham (US) |
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Danske Equities |
Thomas Bowers |
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Deutsche Bank |
Emmanuel Papadakis, Farzana Habib, Jeremy Finkelstein, Justin Bowers |
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Deutsche Numis |
Paul Cuddon |
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Degroof Petercam |
Laura Roba |
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DNB Bank ASA |
Rune Dahl |
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DZ Bank |
Elmar Kraus, Peter Spengler, Thomas Maul |
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Edison |
John Savin, Pooya Hemami, Soo Romanoff |
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Exane BNP Paribas |
Alex Evans, Hugo Solvet, Nicolas Langlet, Richard Parkes |
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Goldman Sachs |
Nick Hallatt, Rajan Sharma, Richard Felton |
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Goodbody |
Ken Rumph, (Brough Ransom) |
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Handelsbanken Capital Markets |
Lars Hevreng, Mattias Häggblom |
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Hardman and Co |
Martin Hall |
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HSBC |
Sezgi Ozener |
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ING |
David Vagman, Maxime Stranart |
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Investec |
Andrew Whitney, Jens Lindqvist, Ben Lawrence |
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Jefferies |
Brian Balchin, Grace Lee, Ing Shen Tan, James Vane-Tempest, Julien Dormois, Lucy Codrington, Michael Toomey, (Jan Scherer), Peter Welford |
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J.P. Morgan Cazenove |
Alex Comer, David Adlington, James Gordon, John Priestner, (Marjan Daeipour), Richard Vosser |
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KBC Securities |
Jeroen Van den Bossche, Michiel Declercq, Thomas Vranken |
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Kepler Capital Markets |
Christophe Rombu, David Evans, Maja Pataki, Matthias Maenhaut, Oliver Reinberg |
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Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg |
Timo Kuerschner |
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Morgan Stanley |
David Lewis, Jenny Leeds, Matthew Harrison, Tejas Savant, Patrick Wood |
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Nord/LB |
Holger Fechner, Thorsten Strauss |
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Oddo Securities |
Martial Descoutures, Oliver Metzger, Oussama Denguir |
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Panmure Liberum |
Julie Simmonds, Seb Jantet |
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Peel Hunt |
Miles Dixon, Leolie Telford-Cooke |
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RBC Capital Markets |
Alistair Campbell, Charles Weston, Jack Reynolds-Clark, Natalia Webster |
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Redburn |
Ed Ridley-Day, Folashade Oyewole, Levon Dermanoukian, Simon Baker, Qize Ding |
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Rx Securities |
Joseph Hedden, Samir Devani |
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Sanford C Bernstein |
Lisa Clive |
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Santander |
Alejandro Conde Fraisolí, Tomasz Krukowski |
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SEB Enskilda |
Martin Parkhøi, Søren Samsøe |
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Shore Capital |
Sean Conroy |
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Singer Capital Markets |
Chris Glasper, Karl Keegan, Edward Sham |
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Société Générale |
Delphine Le Louët, Florent Cespedes, Justin Smith, Patrick Jousseaume |
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Stifel |
Christian Glennie, Dylan van Haaften, Eric Le Berrigaud, James Orsborne, (Seb Wykeham) |
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SVB Securities |
David Risinger, |
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Trinity Delta |
Franc Gregori, Hans Bostrom, Lala Gregorek, Philippa Gardner |
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UBS |
Barbora Blaha, Beatrice Allen, Graham Doyle, Harry Sephton, Jo Walton, Kavya Deshpande, Laura Sutcliffe, Matthew Weston, Tanya Hansalik, Trung Huynh, Xian Deng |
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Van Lanschot Kempen |
Sebastiaan van der Schoot, Suzanne van Voorthuizen, Sushila Hernandez, Edward Thomason, Luísa Morgado, Chiara Montironi |
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William Blair |
Matthew Larew |
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APM Health Europe Eliza Slawther, Nick Hudson, Thomas Meek
Associated Press Courtney Bonnell, Tom Murphy
BBC Andrew Picken (Scotland), Alex Therrien, Esme Stallard, Fergus Walsh, Hugh Pym, James Gallagher, Katie Hope, Kate Stephens, Marc Ashdown, Rebecca Morelle
BioCentury Danielle Golovin, Dave Flores, Durkin Wolfe, Jeff Cranmer, Karen Tkach Tuzman, Lauren Martz, Meredith Durkin Wolfe, Paul Bonanos, Richard Guy, Simone Fishburn, Stephen Hansen
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Boston Business Journal Don Seiffert, Hannah Green, Isabel Tehan
Boston Globe Dana Gerber, Jonathan Saltzman
Boston Herald Joe Dwinell, Lance Reynolds, Matthew Medsger, Rick Sobey, Sean Cotter
Chicago Business Journal Alex Zorn
CNBC Jonathan Vanian, Sara Salinas
Daily Express, Callum Hoare, Giles Sheldrick, Hanna Geissler, Solen Le Net
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Healthcare Business International Max Hotopf
HealthInvestor Charles Wheeldon, Zinovia Fragkiadaki
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Investor Conferences and Virtual Events
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Investor Conferences and Virtual Events
2024
November
BIO-Europe 2024, Stockholm (4-6)
FT Global Pharma and Biotech Summit, London (5-7)
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting, Denver (5-9)
Truist Securities BioPharma Symposium, New York (6)
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting, San Diego (15-19)
Bryan, Garnier & Co. European Healthcare Conference, Paris (16-17)
ICR Healthcare, Citi, Cooley and Stifel’s 12th Annual Healthcare Conference, London (18)
Stifel Healthcare Conference, New York (18-19)
Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference, London (19-21)
Berenberg 1x1 Symposium at the German Equity Form, Main (25-27)
December
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting, Chicago (1-5)
Jefferies Private MedTech Summit, New York (6-7)
Berenberg European Conference, Surrey (2-5)
Citi Global Healthcare Conference, Miami (3-5)
Piper Sandler 36th Annual Healthcare Conference, New York (3-5)
American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (6-10)
American Society of Hematology (ASH) 66th Annual Meeting, San Diego (7-10)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting, San Diego (14-18)
2025
January
Biotech Showcase Partnering Conference, San Francisco (13-15)
J.P. Morgan 43rd Annual Healthcare Conference, San Francisco (13-16)
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, San Francisco (23-25)
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting, Olympic Valley, CA (25-27)
Global CMR conference, Washington (29-1)
Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) Annual Scientific Meeting, Las Vegas (31-3)
February
Oppenheimer Winter CEO & Investor Summit, Vail, CO (3-6)
Guggenheim 7th Annual Biotechnology Conference, New York (5-6)
BIO Biotechnology CEO & Investor Conference, New York (10-11)
Oppenheimer 35th Annual Healthcare Life Sciences Conference, Virtual (11-12)
Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) Annual Conference, Las Vegas (11-13)
Citi Oncology Leadership Summit, Virtual (19-20)
H.C. Wainwright Cell Therapy Virtual Conference, Virtual (24)
Morgan Stanley European MedTech & Services Conference, London (24-25)
Sachs 6th Annual European Healthcare CEO Forum, Zurich (25)
Evercore ISI 2025 Emerging Biotech Conference, Virtual (26-27)
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting, San Diego (28-3)
March
TD Cowen 45th Annual Health Care Conference, Boston (3-5)
Jefferies Value-Based Healthcare Summit, Miami (10)
Oppenheimer 35th Annual MedTech & Services Conference, New York (11-12)
Barclays Global Healthcare Conference, Miami (11-13)
BIO Europe Spring, Milan (25-26)
Leerink Partners Mountain Meeting 2025, Miami (23-26)
BIO Europe Spring Digital, Digital (25-26)
American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Meeting, Chicago (29-31)