APRINOIA Therapeutics Completed $40 Million Series C Financing in 2021
APRINOIA Therapeutics has completed Series C financing with a total amount of $40 million USD in 2021. The financing was led by Yantai Dongcheng Pharmaceutical Group and syndicated by current shareholders KTB Network, IMM, and TaiAn Technologies and several new investors, including Harvest Capital, a fund established by the Management Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).
APRINOIA Therapeutics Established Collaboration on Tau PET Imaging Tracer Development
APRINOIA Therapeutics Inc. today announced that they had executed a worldwide non-exclusive licensing agreement for Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) to access APRINOIA’s positron emission tomography (PET) imaging tracer, 18F-APN-1607, for neurodegenerative diseases. This is an extension of a collaboration between APRINOIA and Biogen to discover novel PET imaging tracers for visualization and quantification of abnormal tau protein accumulation in the brain.
APRINOIA Therapeutics has Initiated a Collaboration with Keio University in Tokyo, Japan
APRINOIA Therapeutics has initiated a collaboration with Keio University in Tokyo, Japan to profile patients with dementia using APRINOIA’s tau PET imaging tracer, 18F-APN-1607 (PM-PBB3). The collaboration is a part of the EKID (Eisai-Keio Innovation Laboratory for Dementia) study conducted by Keio University and Eisai Co. Ltd., which is supported by a research grant (No. JP17pc0101006) from AMED (Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development). APRINOIA is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the study which might be useful for deeper understanding of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s Disease.
APRINOIA Licenses Tau PET Imaging Tracer APN-1607 to Celgene
APRINOIA Therapeutics announced today that it has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Celgene Corporation. The agreement authorizes Celgene to use APN-1607, a novel investigational [18F]-labeled positron emission tomography (PET) imaging tracer, to support patient selection and efficacy evaluation in its global clinical trials.
APRINOIA tackles Tau
Aprinoia Therapeutics Inc. is developing a pipeline targeting tauopathies that includes diagnostic imaging tracers, mAbs specific to pathologic tau and small molecules that bind to tau rather than dissociate tau aggregates.
“We are going to develop imaging biomarkers for all the therapeutic targets first to see those targets, and then find therapies,” CEO Ming-Kuei Jang told BioCentury.