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Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Funding Round
On 11/14/2007, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals secured $13 million in Series A funding from Oxford Bioscience Partners and Skyline Ventures.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
11/14/2007
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$13,000,000
Round
Series A
Investors
Oxford Bioscience Partners (Lead Investor) (Douglas Fambrough)
Skyline Ventures (Lead Investor) (Stephen Hoffman)
Proceeds Purpose
Dicerna will create novel drugs that take advantage of the same cellularmachinery responsible for the well-known phenomenon of RNA interference(RNAi) but with a key difference. In contrast to existing companies, Dicerna willdevelop novel therapeutics that target an earlier step in the RNAi process.
Company Information
Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
33 Hayden Ave.
Lexington, MA 02421
USA
Lexington, MA 02421
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Overview
Dicerna (NASDAQ: DRNA) is working to improve the lives of people suffering from rare diseases, chronic liver diseases, cardiovascular disease, and viral liver infectious diseases. We discover and develop innovative therapies to stop or turn off destructive disease processes by silencing the genes underlying these processes.
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Douglas Fambrough
Chief Financial Officer
Jack Green
Chief Medical Officer
Ralf Rosskamp
Chief Scientific Officer
Bob Brown
Vice President
Jennifer Lockridge
VP - Bus. Development
James Weissman
VP - Operations
David Miller
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