KeyNeurotek generates $11M in series C financing

7 April 2009

KeyNeurotek Pharmaceuticals AG, a German biotechnology company, has closed a series C financing round, generating around 8.2 million euros  ($10.9 million).

All existing main investors, DVC Deutsche Venture Capital, IBG  Beteiligungsgesellschaft and KfW have participated in this round. DVC  acted as lead investor. Jurgen Gerlach, managing partner of the firm,  has replaced Alexander Asam on KeyNeurotek's supervisory board.

The funds are being used to advance KeyNeurotek's diversified clinical  product portfolio addressing major and unmet medical needs such as  traumatic brain injury and urinary incontinence. The company's lead  compound, KN38-7271, is a dual cannabinoid CB1/CB2 receptor agonist  currently being investigated in a multinational Phase-IIa study in  comatose TBI patients.

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