Poplar’s $50 million Series A to ‘transform treatment of atopic diseases’
The launch of USA-based Poplar Therapeutics has been announced, alongside a $50 million Series A financing led by SR One, Vida Ventures and Platanus.
Previously known as Phylaxis Bioscience, Poplar is an immunology company developing a new class of anti-IgE therapy to treat food allergy and other atopic conditions.
Chip Baird was named chief executive of Poplar in October 2025, having previously been CEO of cell therapy company 2seventy bio, leading through its successful sale to US pharma major Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY).
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