Serentis raises L10.3 million in financing

8 July 2007

Cambridge, UK Serentis, a biopharmaceutical company focussed on product development, has completed aL10.3 million ($20.6 million) series A financing round.

The investment was jointly led by leading life science venture funds, MVM Life Science Partners, Apposite Capital and Novo A/S. Martin Murphy (MVM Life Science Partners), Allan Marchington (Apposite Capital and Martin Edwards (Novo) have joined the board of Serentis.

Established in 2006, Serentis, which has considerable expertise in product discovery and development, will use the funds to progress its lead products into clinical-stage proof-of-principle trials and to expand its development pipeline. Pipeline products will be identified via Serentis' internal, low-risk discovery activities and by licensing near-clinical stage assets and technologies, the firm says.

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