The Life Sciences team advised Parabilis Medicines on the successful closing of a $305 million Series F financing. The round was co-led by RA Capital Management, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Janus Henderson Investors, with participation from new investors including Frazier Life Sciences, Soleus Capital, and a life science-dedicated investment fund.
The financing will support the continued clinical development of FOG-001 (zolucatetide) – the company's lead investigational Helicon peptide and first and only direct inhibitor of the elusive β-catenin:TCF interaction – including progression toward a registrational trial in desmoid tumors and continued evaluation across a range of genetically simple and more complex tumor types.
Parabilis Medicines is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to creating extraordinary medicines that unlock high-impact protein targets long-considered undruggable. Leveraging over a decade of proprietary data, laboratory innovations, and AI- and physics-based algorithms, the company has developed a new class of stabilized, cell-penetrant alpha-helical peptides – Helicons" – capable of modulating intracellular proteins that are inaccessible to traditional drug modalities. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Parabilis is advancing a focused pipeline of multiple first-in-class therapies across both rare and common cancers.
The Goodwin deal team was led by Gregg Katz, Kingsley Taft, Dan Liu, Anderson Riddick, and Nik Shiva.
For more information on the deal, please read the press release and coverage in Endpoints News, STAT, and Fierce Biotech.