Prosensa Raises €23 Million in New Equity Financing Led by New Enterprise Associates

Leiden, The Netherlands, 25 January 2012 – Prosensa, the Dutch bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany focus­ing on RNA-modulating ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with high unmet needs, announced today that it has raised €23 mil­lion in new equity financ­ing. The financ­ing was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and was sup­ported by exist­ing Prosensa investors, Abingworth, Life Sciences Partners, Gimv, Idinvest Partners and MedSciences Capital. David Mott, General Partner of NEA, will join Prosensa’s Supervisory Board. More… »

Pronota announces EUR 3.7 mil­lion Series C financ­ing; man­age­ment and board changes

Ghent, Belgium, 20th January 2012 – Pronota NV today announced the close of a Series C financ­ing, rais­ing EUR 3.7 mil­lion from exist­ing investors; LSP, Gimv, Biotech Fund Flanders, KBC Private Equity, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, VIB, MP Healthcare and MedSciences Capital, and a com­pany founder. More… »

Prosensa to Receive $1.5m from Charley’s Fund for Skipping of Exon 52 in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

Leiden, The Netherlands, 1 December 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany focus­ing on RNA mod­u­lat­ing ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with unmet med­ical needs, announced today that it has received financ­ing of $1.5m for three years from the char­i­ta­ble organ­i­sa­tion Charley’s Fund, to sup­port devel­op­ment of com­pounds for the skip­ping of exon 52 in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). More… »

Prosensa Updates on Patent Position

Leiden, The Netherlands, 17 November 2011 – Prosensa, the Dutch com­pany focus­ing on RNA mod­u­lat­ing ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with unmet med­ical needs, has been granted two new patents for exon-skipping by the Japanese Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and has con­firmed its strong posi­tion in Europe dur­ing an oppo­si­tion pro­ce­dure which was con­cluded yes­ter­day. More… »

Mucosis Announces New Scientific Advisory Board

Groningen, the Netherlands, November 15, 2011 / B3C newswire / – Dutch biotech­nol­ogy com­pany Mucosis B.V. today announced that it has appointed pro­fes­sors Jiri Mestecky, M.D., Ph.D.; Willem van Eden, M.D., Ph.D.; and Peter J. Openshaw, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., to its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board. More… »