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Aura Biosciences

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Aura Biosciences Funding Round

Aura Biosciences, based in Cambridge, raised $21 million in funding from Advent Life Sciences, Alexandria Venture Investments and Chiesi Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name

Aura Biosciences

Announced On

3/5/2015

Transaction Type

Venture Equity

Amount

$21,000,000

Round

Series B

Investors

Advent Life Sciences (Lead Investor) (Dale Pfost)

Alexandria Venture Investments

Chiesi Ventures

private investors (Henri Termeer)

LI-COR Biosciences

Ysios Capital

Proceeds Purpose

The financing will be used to advance Aura's unique and novel therapies into clinical trials for the treatment of rare cancers of the eye, and to further develop for additional cancer indications its first-in-class technology that was discovered and developed in partnership with Dr. John Schiller at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Company Information

Company Status

Publicly-held

Industry

Biopharmaceutical

Mailing Address

85 Bolton St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA

Phone

(617) 401-3360

Website

www.aurabiosciences.com

Email Address

[email protected]

Overview

Aura Biosciences is developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy tumor cells. Its lead program in ocular melanoma, developed under a CRADA with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been granted orphan drug status by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Profile

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Company News

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Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Elisabet de los Pinos

Chief Financial Officer

Julie Feder

Chief Medical Officer

Cadmus Rich

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