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Cyteir Therapeutics Funding Round

Cyteir Therapeutics closed a $40.2 million Series B funding round on 10/16/2019. Investors included Novo Ventures, Celgene and DROIA.

Transaction Overview

Announced On
10/16/2019
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$40,200,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Novo Ventures (Lead Investor)

Celgene (Markus Renschler)

DROIA (Bart Hooland)

Lightstone Ventures (Jean George)

Osage Partners

Venrock (Racquel Bracken)

Proceeds Purpose
The additional funding will be used to expand the clinical investigation of Cyteir's first-in-class RAD51 inhibitor and lead compound, CYT-0851, and to identify new targets using the company's novel gain-of-function synthetic lethality screening platform.

Company Information

Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
128 Spring St. Building A 510
Lexington, MA 02421
USA
Email Address
Overview
DNA damage and genomic instability are hallmarks of cancer and autoimmune diseases. This makes the disease-causing cells highly sensitive to drugs that target specific DNA repair factors. This is termed synthetic lethality.
Profile
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Markus Renschler
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Chief Scientific Officer
Paul Secrist
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Vice President
Jean-Marc Lapierre
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Vice President
Thomas O'Shea
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VP - Bus. Development
Andrew Gengos
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VP - Operations
Susan Doleman
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VP - R & D
Judson Englert
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VP - R & D
Barbara Wan
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