C4 Therapeutics Start-up Starts With Roche Tie-Up, $73m Series A
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
One of the decade's largest Series A financings for a biopharmaceutical start-up and a potentially lucrative collaboration with Roche mark the unveiling of C4 Therapeutics, which will work primarily with partners to develop what it calls Degronomids against targeted disease-causing proteins.
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