Sillajen Raises $12M in Funding

sillajen_logoSillajen, a Seoul, South Korea-based global oncolytic immunotherapeutic company, raised $12m in funding.

Medivate Partners made the investment. In conjunction with the funding, Mr. Paul Kim, CEO & Managing Partner of Medivate Partners, will join the Board of Directors of Sillajen.

The company will use the funds to complete the on-going Phase III study of its lead product, Pexa-Vec (JX-594), an oncolytic virus with demonstrated intravenous delivery to tumors and induction of cancer-targeting antibodies. It is currently in Phase III multi-national clinical development in US, Europe and Asia.

Sillajen plans to go public in the Korean stock market by the end of 2016.

FinSMEs

21/03/2016

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